I've started working on a side project today but I've been out of the web game for some time and I'm not sure what exactly the options are these days. Do people still use Heroku? AWS λ? Firebase? Digital Ocean? I know this is very much use case dependent but I'm still curious.
Ask HN: What hosting platform is everyone using these days?
1–10 of 15 posts
Re: Ask HN: What hosting platform is everyone using these days?
#2All of the above.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: Ask HN: What hosting platform is everyone using these days?
#3I'm using Linode for apps and Jekyll + AWS (S3 + Route53 + Cloudfront + SSL certs) for static sites. IMO, if you are making simple single-instance apps, Compute Engine or Google Cloud (even Heroku) can be overkill. On one $10 instance of a Linode VPS I can run a back-end REST API, DB and deliver a front-end SPA
Re: Ask HN: What hosting platform is everyone using these days?
#4Ovh public cloud
Re: Ask HN: What hosting platform is everyone using these days?
#5I use Digital Ocean for just about everything these days. Cheap and simple to spin up and down. They give me shell access and let me go nuts.
Re: Ask HN: What hosting platform is everyone using these days?
#6In a recent similar thread I found out about scaleway, love it. Cheap, good interface and setting up I found that even the image I used was better set up than the digital ocean one(I just used the python to host a django app)
Re: Ask HN: What hosting platform is everyone using these days?
#7I use Digital Ocean for just about everything these days. Cheap and simple to spin up and down. They give me shell access and let me go nuts.
yep, $5/month you can run a simple site/blog
Re: Ask HN: What hosting platform is everyone using these days?
#8In a recent similar thread I found out about scaleway, love it. Cheap, good interface and setting up I found that even the image I used was better set up than the digital ocean one(I just used the python to host a django app)
Does Scaleway serve customers outside of the EU?
Re: Ask HN: What hosting platform is everyone using these days?
#9It's not quite "hip", but a dedicated server on OVH is pretty sweet. Their WHM/cpanel licences are cheap about 25/month. And you can then run MANY websites/projects all under the same umbrella, instead of each time starting over again with a barebone Digital Ocean droplet/Linode, etc. Plus, you got full power.
Unless you're running some SaaS project, that really needs to be able to scale rapidly -- this is to me still a very solid, simple, worry-free solution.
Btw: with OVH, it comes with 500gb FTP backup, you can add backups to a secondary HD, and you can add other offsite backups, as Amazon S3. Plus, they have a great IP policy, for just a one-time $2, you can get additional IP's, without recurring costs, up to 256 per server: and localised. So you can have 10 USA IP's and 20 Norwegian IP's and 10 Czech IP's all on the same server.
Re: Ask HN: What hosting platform is everyone using these days?
#10It's not quite "hip", but a dedicated server on OVH is pretty sweet. Their WHM/cpanel licences are cheap about 25/month. And you can then run MANY websites/projects all under the same umbrella, instead of each time starting over again with a barebone Digital Ocean droplet/Linode, etc. Plus, you got full power. Unless you're running some SaaS project, that really needs to be able to scale rapidly -- this is to me stil…
Second exactly that.