Guys 👋 for standby mode, is there a
Guys 👋 for standby mode, is there a cost estimation for standby time? And can I stop/start it periodically?
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Are you asking as user or publisher? The extra cost depends mainly on how much you utilize the running Actor and the idle time settings. But standby doesn't allow PPR/PPE pricing yet (this is in progress)
It stops when no requests are send and idle time passes.
As a user. I'm using smsapi, and would like to have a standby actor to process sms when there're any (they would be sent via POST requests to the actor) and decide to whom it will forward (based on some internal rules)
Just play with the numbers, it depends how often you can afford Actor cold start (few seconds). Long idle time = longer time Actors stays warm
Thank you Lukas, will try that out 🙏
Let us know how it works for you. We want to make this mode 1st class citizens at Apify so there will be some improvements.