{"slug": "show-hn-kedge-full-stack-cloud-with-forkable-vm-snapshots-and-global-sqlite", "title": "Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite", "summary": "Kedge, a new full-stack cloud platform, launched with forkable VM snapshots and a global SQLite database, offering per-second billing on actual resource consumption. The platform provides hardware-isolated VMs, autoscaling, built-in CDN, and GitHub integration, with a $5/month free tier and rates of $15 per vCPU-month, $5 per GB-month for memory, $0.05 per GB-month for storage, and $0.01 per GB for egress.", "body_md": "A lightweight, globally distributed cloud platform.\n\nStatic sites, serverless functions, full-stack apps **and databases**, deployed close to your users.\n\n```\necho '# Hello, world!' | ssh kedge.dev\n```\n\nThe [quickstart](/docs/quickstart) has more advanced examples.\n\n## features\n\n[Secure, hardware-isolated VMs](/docs/security)with a full Linux kernel[Instant sandboxes and scale-out](/docs/performance)[Global SQLite database and shared filesystem](/docs/shared-data)built into every app[Persistent local volumes](/docs/volumes)continuously backed by object storage[Public HTTPS endpoints, private networking, custom domains](/docs/network)[Autoscaling](/docs/runtime#autoscaling)spins up instances close to your users, and scales to zero when idle[Built-in CDN](/docs/network#public-ingress-and-cdn)serves cached and static content from every edge[SSH](/docs/cli#use-ssh-directly),[Git](/docs/deploy#from-a-directory), and[HTTP APIs](/docs/api)for CLI power-users and AI agents[GitHub integration](/docs/github)with push-to-deploy per-PR preview environments\n\n## pricing\n\nBilled per-second on *actual* resources consumed, not allocated capacity.\nCPU bills only scheduled milliseconds, memory tracks active resident pages, storage only for bytes used.\nIdle apps scale to zero and pay only for storage.\n\n| Resource | Rate |\n|---|---|\n| CPU | $15 / vCPU-month |\n| Memory | $5 / GB-month |\n| Storage | $0.05 / GB-month |\n| Egress | $0.01 / GB |\n\nCredits-based billing, with a $5/month [free tier](/docs/billing#the-free-tier), enough to run a small website or dev box at no cost. [Pricing details.](/docs/billing)\n\n[Log in](/login) with GitHub, or [ ssh kedge.dev](ssh://kedge.dev) from your terminal.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kedge-full-stack-cloud-with-forkable-vm-snapshots-and-global-sqlite", "canonical_source": "https://kedge.dev/", "published_at": "2026-07-29 16:15:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-29 17:06:47.759003+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Kedge", "GitHub", "SQLite"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kedge-full-stack-cloud-with-forkable-vm-snapshots-and-global-sqlite", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kedge-full-stack-cloud-with-forkable-vm-snapshots-and-global-sqlite.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kedge-full-stack-cloud-with-forkable-vm-snapshots-and-global-sqlite.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kedge-full-stack-cloud-with-forkable-vm-snapshots-and-global-sqlite.jsonld"}}