Scale your deployments

Slot instances are launched with the basic instance by default. This instance type is only suitable for testing and development purposes and comes with limited CPU & memory. 3 deployments of the basic tier are free.

To prepare your deployments for production, you can set up billing and upgrade to a paid instance tier.

Instances

Note: basic & common instances are scaled down automatically after a few hours of no activity. To revive deployments, simply send a single request to the instance URL and it'll be revived on the spot. If unused without any activity for more then 30 days, it will get deleted.

Epic and higher tiers are never scaled down or deleted as long as there are enough credits on the related team.

Replicas

For torii, with premium tiers Epic, Legendary and Insane, you can choose to deploy your instances with multiple replicas using the --replicas <n> flag.

slot d create --tier epic my-project torii --replicas 3

Replicas are billed as how many replicas you have. For example, if you have 3 replicas, you will be billed 3 times the monthly cost of the tier you are using.

Regions

For torii, with premium tiers Epic, Legendary and Insane, you can choose to deploy your instances in multiple regions.

To deploy a slot service in multiple regions, you can use the --regions flag.

Katana is only supported in us-east at this time.

slot d create --tier insane --regions us-east,asia-southeast,europe-west my-project torii

Multi-region deployments are billed based on the number of regions you choose and the tier you are using by multiplying the monthly cost of the tier by the number of regions times replicas. For example, if you have two replicas in three regions, you will be billed six times the monthly cost of the tier you are using.

Set up billing

To set up slot billing, you need to buy credits and transfer them to a slot team.

If you have existing deployments, a team of the same name as your account will be created for you, and you can transfer credits to it.

slot teams my-team create --email my-email@example.com # email is required for billing alerts
slot teams my-team update --email my-email@example.com # if you want to update an existing team's email
 
slot auth fund # buy credits for your account, this opens the browser
 
slot auth transfer my-team --usd 10 # transfer $10 from your controller to my-team
# or
slot auth transfer my-team --credits 1000 # transfer 1000 credits ($10) from your controller to my-team

Once you create paid slot instances, funds are deducted on a daily basic with a minimum charge of one day. For example, if you create a deployment and delete it after one hour, you will be charged 1/30th of the monthly cost.

Create an instance with a paid tier

Make sure to use the team flag of the team you previously transferred credits to.

slot d create --tier epic --team my-team my-instance torii

Update an existing instance to a paid tier

Note that you can only upgrade tiers; downgrading to a lower tier is not possible.

Make sure that you created this instance with the team flag of the team you previously transferred credits to, or make sure the team it belongs to has credits available.

slot d update --tier epic my-instance torii