How important is SQLite to you? I run https://crushentropy.com/ (high-res scheduling) on Google App Engine (Standard) with data persisted on Firebase. It costs me $0 per month.
So the user must, re-write his code to fit into firebase?
Ask HN: Optimal cloud service to run tiny website with back end Python + SQLite?
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Re: Ask HN: Optimal cloud service to run tiny website with back end Python + SQLite?
#72How important is SQLite to you? I run https://crushentropy.com/ (high-res scheduling) on Google App Engine (Standard) with data persisted on Firebase. It costs me $0 per month.
So the user must, re-write his code to fit into firebase?
No, just saying that's an option to consider, that's all. If the current code is super small, it can be a quick change.
There are different kinds of "simple". SQLite sure is simple in several dimensions, but then you need a writable file system for it, and file locking is not an issue for your usecase etc.
I consider my set it and forget it setup to be simple, and I haven't had to do any maintenance in 3 years, though Firebase is not exactly what you'd call "simple".
Re: Ask HN: Optimal cloud service to run tiny website with back end Python + SQLite?
#73Google cloud run. If you can put your python app in a docker container (very easy) then you can run it on Cloud Run. They have a very generous “always free” tier.
If SQLite sends writes to the disk you cannot use cloud run, as it does not have a persistent disk.
Yes sorry, I should have said also you can use their always free VM Compute Instance to run the DB.
Re: Ask HN: Optimal cloud service to run tiny website with back end Python + SQLite?
#74www.pythonanywhere.com
Nice little setup where you get python set up out of the box, and you even have some options of quickly setup database if you need to go beyond sqlite.
It's very flexible, cheap and definitely a time saver for when you want something up and running quickly.
Re: Ask HN: Optimal cloud service to run tiny website with back end Python + SQLite?
#75PRGMR.com 1.25 GiB RAM, 15 GiB Disk for $5 per month. https://prgmr.com/xen/ inexpensive. no overage charges . can pay by bitcoin. (and a FreeBSD friendly). I wonder if you would also benefit from installing something like yunohost [2] on top of Debian. This will get you your personal cloud. And the use YounoHost's 'Custom web app' container [4] This way, you get an automatically configured web server (nginx), with c…
Are you affiliated with the company? I chuckle when I see this hosting shop pop up on HN. They had advertisements on the dividers at the Safeway in Mountain View. Was wondering how they worked that.
no.
I also know that they donate (or at least donated before now) hosting service to lobste.rs
I found them just by searching through like anybody else would.
I had never seen their ads.
are you affiliated with any of their competitors?
Re: Ask HN: Optimal cloud service to run tiny website with back end Python + SQLite?
#76http://pythonanywhere.com This guys specialize in python hosting and have a free tier
Love them always and still hosting with them. Will switch to paid one once I get some traffic. Excellent guys and hosting packages.
Re: Ask HN: Optimal cloud service to run tiny website with back end Python + SQLite?
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you affiliated with the company? I chuckle when I see this hosting shop pop up on HN. They had advertisements on the dividers at the Safeway in Mountain View. Was wondering how they worked that.
no. I also know that they donate (or at least donated before now) hosting service to lobste.rs I found them just by searching through like anybody else would. I had never seen their ads. are you affiliated with any of their competitors?
Nope. Just a Bay Area native who got into the local industry.
Re: Ask HN: Optimal cloud service to run tiny website with back end Python + SQLite?
#78http://pythonanywhere.com This guys specialize in python hosting and have a free tier
Second this.
Re: Ask HN: Optimal cloud service to run tiny website with back end Python + SQLite?
#79If you want something fire and forget and since this is simple I would go with a serverless solution. Static files (with some little JS) hosted on some CDN and serverless database. One option is AWS dynamodb and their CDN, a more friendly beginner solution is firebase. You can't get more low maintenance than that.
Do you know of any existing tools for this on the server(less) part and database that aren't hard to setup?
The firebase docs are pretty good, they have lots of videos also if that's your thing.