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Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

#41
I understand: It's curated and opinionated and there should only be three big players on the list. I strongly feel that hosting is not a commodity. There are big differences between PaaS and VPS hosting in service level.

Shameless plug: We run [PHP as a Service](https://www.fortrabbit.com) which is a managed stack with pre-installed Git push to deploy, Composer and Let's Encrypt certs for all domains.

Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

#42
post #25

Fairly disappointing list. No GC in hosting list, even with generous free tier on App Engine, Firebase and other services. No DigitalOcean. No Azure. On e-mail front, no SendGrid and Mailgun, even with their generous free tiers. No Cloudflare. CI as category is ignored. 1&1 makes it, but GoDaddy, Gandi, and others don't.

> 1&1 makes it, but GoDaddy, Gandi, and others don't. Godaddy? They use shady tactics to mislead customers, their service is pretty bad and they are an overall unethical company. I would never recommend them.

Hosting was the most tricky part to describe - first of all, because there are so many companies and I wanted to keep the list short (otherwise it's not helpful). The second reason is that everyone has different opinions on the hosting companies - for example, one person can have a great experience with Godaddy and someone else will have a very bad one. So I decided to go for the DigitalOcean and Linode as they have a rather good reputation among developers and AWS, as they are popular among many developers (+ they come with a huge amount of other services that you can use). Plus Heroku with their free plan.

Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

#43
I just deployed a corporate site last week using Jekyll, hosted on S3 with CloudFront using a free AWS certificate. Content management is provided by forestry.io which has been mentioned a couple times on HN and is a compelling alternative for the CMS functionality and a necessity for the client. When I think Website, this is the best 'stack' I've deployed with.

Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

#45
post #28

I feel like Sentry[0] should be on the error tracking list, it's an amazing product that's fully open source so you can host it yourself if you're concerned about privacy or throw some money at the stellar team behind it to have them host it for you! [0]: https://sentry.io

Thanks for the advice, I didn't know about Sentry. I will definitely check it out!

Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

#47
post #46

Design is nice, content is shamefully incomplete. Best case is honest bias, worst case is author has been compensated.

Of course he is compensated... there are affiliate links all over the place.

Not that I think that is inherently bad, but you must be careful of bias and understand lots of good options may not be presented.

Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

#49
post #8

It's impressive that only a quarter of the links are affiliate links.

The other 3/4 websites don't have the affiliation programs ;) But jokes aside, as I tried to explain on the FAQ website, I'm not related with any of the companies and tried to choose them honestly, based on the quality of the service they offer. If they have affiliation links, I have add them. If not, it doesn't matter. There are many great services like Amazon, Heroku or all of the errors tracking tools, that don't have affiliation links and they are there because their service is great, so I'm not trying to trick people to use the other tools because that will give me money (also, none of the affiliation links give you real money, usually those are some credits on each platform, and if, for example an affiliation link can help me host the this website for free for couple of months, then why not).

Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

#50
post #7

As far as email sending is concerned, Mailgun seems better, with 10k emails per month free, no?

Yup, Mailgun is great and I added it in the "Transactional emails" section (you just need to click the blue bar in the emails section).
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