Cloud offerings are incredible for small teams. Don't even bother trying to do your own thing until you can clearly articulate the savings and factor in the risks and costs.
Odds are you'll never need to move.
Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
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Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#52Fully managed so I can spend my time on actually building features. In my case, AWS is my go to cloud, and even with a couple of thousand users, Lambda for compute, DynamoDB for database and SNS+SQS for eventing is costing me less than 5€ per month. Yes, there are risks with serverless if you get DDOSed or whatever, but it’s a risk I’m fine with, and can mitigate with gateways in front if necessary. And Lambdas are n…
Interesting. Did you migrate to a serverless architecture or was your app serverless from the start?
It was serverless from the start, although there isn't a whole lot of serverless unique code in it, apart from some event handler bootstrapping to handle SQS triggered Lambdas. Everything else is just standard .Net that would look the same no matter where it's hosted. Huge fan of separating infrastructure concerns from the rest of the app to not lock yourself in so much.
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#53Spoiler: Shameless plug, but might be helpful for people
I understand most of the commentators, as well as OP, are probably looking to not spend too much time and money on their hosting infra. While that makes sense in the beginning, there might be a point in your successful journey where you want to hand over your operation duties to someone skilled and focus on building software because your business starts depending on safe and well-maintained infrastructure.
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Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#54Cloudflare Workers and Fly.io
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#55I use Coolify on Hetzner bare metal.
I still like individual VPSs, as I have more control over the cost, monitoring, backups, etc.