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

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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

Yes, I was surprised it's not the first on that list. Amazing product and amazing people behind it!

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

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Not really. AppEngine is unique in this way. It has a combination of features and constraints that make it very difficult to replicate what it can do elsewhere. GAE is a product not just a collection of APIs. The closest thing to AppEngine out there is ElasticBeanstalk and Heroku, which resemble each other far more than they resemble AppEngine. Good luck.

AppEngine doesn't support php7. Call me old fashioned but that's a show stopper for me.

You are, indeed, old fashioned. But GAE has a Java SDK, so you can run PHP on GAE after all.

https://github.com/collegeman/php-in-java

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

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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

Somewhat unrelated, I have seen a lot of places list a "con" of Sentry that its only free plan (non-trial) is self-hosted. This is a pro for me! I LOVE that I can run Sentry on my own infrastructure :)

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

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I would add a image/video hosting & management category - there are some well established players in the market that have nice free tiers (full disclosure: I work at one). Makes life simpler than working with Storage & CDNs.

Can you recommend some of them? I've tried using Dropbox for very low-traffic personal sites before but the workflow was less than ideal.

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

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The whole google cloud platform doesn't get enough cred. Would be nice to add it to the list.

Azure is also missing

I did take a look at Azure, but it looks complicated. Probably for someone who has more experience and actually have used it, it's not, but I couldn't easily find how I can get a simple VM, and when I used the calculator for the VM, the price was almost two times more expensive comparing to DigitalOcean or Linode. I see that there are many people using Azure and probably it's a great ecosystem, but I wanted to focus on easier to use tools, that will be more friendly to beginner web developers. I might think of a section for more advanced options (not a single hosting, but a whole service that includes multiple tools) where Azure would be a great fit.

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

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> 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…

If you're going to mention AWS, you should also be mentioning GCE and Azure, as each can be the cheapest/best under certain circumstances. It'd be even better if you analyzed their offerings to give people an idea of when to choose each offering. I'd also like to see at least one static site hosting company (Netlify?) listed since they can be a lot cheaper than the big cloud companies if that's all you need.

In general, I didn't find this list particularly useful. There wasn't a single product on your list that I'm not intimately familiar with, and I'm not the sort of person that really keeps an ear close to the ground on these sort of things. The categories of SaaS products you recommend are pretty limited. It could be useful if you indexed more providers in more categories and then asked some basic questions to cull the list down to a personalized recommendation for your reader's needs. But short of that, there's little here that you wouldn't get from five minutes on StackShare.

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

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Hey everyone, I have created this website after struggling with deploying my website for the first time (which one of the 1000+ hosting companies to chose? How to get a cheap domain? Analytics, monitoring, what other tools I need?) and I thought it might be useful for others. There are no advertisements and it was not sponsored by any company, I did a lot of reading, checked different services and picked up those tha…

> There are no advertisements But some of the links are affiliate links. I don't have a problem with this, but if you're going to make a big deal about not having ads or sponsorship, then I think you should have mentioned this too.

I think him picking up affiliate links and not polluting site with ads is good balance. It doesn't change anything for you as a visitor.

There is nothing wrong with making money, it is wrong when I get video playing when I click on a link at HN.

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