Startup Time
During the months of Preview, we put a special focus on improving our scale to zero and cold start behavior. Today, tens of thousands of Neon databases scale to zero every day, saving developers money. And we keep working hard on our cold start metrics: we are now at a P50 of 500 ms to start a database, and we’re working to reduce it further.
https://neon.tech/blog/neon-ga
A) This is awesome.
B) I'm doing a startup. There are still many times throughout the day when there are no visitors. Will the first visitor have an extra 1/2 second page load time while the db does a cold start?
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