Heroku for the webapp ($7/mo), Linode for the DB server and cache server ($10/mo).
I don't need a DB I don't manage (I can handle mysql).
I don't need auto-scaling (and I'll go out on a limb and say that you don't either).
Ask HN: How do you deploy your weekend project in 2022?
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#32For a “weekend project”, “auto scale” will be well served by SQLite.
Always amazes me when people try to design Google-scale solutions to 0.3 QPS problems.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deploy your weekend project in 2022?
#33 Digital Ocean Web Service $5.00
Digital Ocean Worker $5.00
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#34Bare metal from the likes of Hetzner for most things. Serverless for some small components which benefit from global distribution. I currently have ~30 containers running on a Hetzner server w/ 64GB of RAM and 16 dedicated cores for ~$25/mo. I even get direct access to the Intel iGPU for graphics acceleration at no additional cost. Cloud providers like AWS give you a couple orders of magnitude less resources for the…
Any idea what the Hetzner equivalent in the US would be?
Hetzner Cloud have US hosting region.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deploy your weekend project in 2022?
#35Bare metal from the likes of Hetzner for most things. Serverless for some small components which benefit from global distribution. I currently have ~30 containers running on a Hetzner server w/ 64GB of RAM and 16 dedicated cores for ~$25/mo. I even get direct access to the Intel iGPU for graphics acceleration at no additional cost. Cloud providers like AWS give you a couple orders of magnitude less resources for the…
Found the same thing when was comparing AWS/Azure to fixed prices providers. When I then looked into it further I found AWS/Azure provided “recommendations” when you selected “production” workloads which was grossly overpriced.
Hetzner Cloud I found is a good balance between price and convenience.
SSH + Docker compose makes for a simple deployment process.
Related write up here: https://servicestack.net/blog/finding-best-us-value-cloud-pr...
Re: Ask HN: How do you deploy your weekend project in 2022?
#36Bare metal from the likes of Hetzner for most things. Serverless for some small components which benefit from global distribution. I currently have ~30 containers running on a Hetzner server w/ 64GB of RAM and 16 dedicated cores for ~$25/mo. I even get direct access to the Intel iGPU for graphics acceleration at no additional cost. Cloud providers like AWS give you a couple orders of magnitude less resources for the…
How did you get such a cheap machine? The cheapest root server right now is about 45, the cheapest server auction is 35.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deploy your weekend project in 2022?
#37If I want to focus on development without being bogged down in tooling I’ll go for Gatsby with Netlify.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deploy your weekend project in 2022?
#38Cloudflare pages for hosting my create-react-app react frontend (free, handles https for me also). Set up to auto deploy on push to repo (cloudflare makes this really easy through their UI)
Digital ocean droplet for hosting my typescript node backend (api) server. Sqlite for storage ($5/mo). Right now I'll typically just git pull when I want to redeploy, however depending on the project I may setup a docker compose script to spin up containers, that gets automatically run on commit to main.
I let cloudflare handle DNS for free also, and have it proxy to sideproject.com / api.sideproject.com for ddos mitigation.
Auth0 free tier for handling auth between.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deploy your weekend project in 2022?
#39Buy a $1/year domain.
Buy a $1/mo cpanel-based hosting (php+mysql+nodejs+python included), scale as needed, depending how much the traffic it gets (well, most of the time my weekend project is not accepted by the market.. haha)
Re: Ask HN: How do you deploy your weekend project in 2022?
#40Docker containers on a VPS. It works every time.
Now I'm adding Cloudflare in front of it.