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

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Post by Vhaeraun »

GordonS wrote: post #9
Vhaeraun wrote: post #2

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 have added information on top of the main page about the affiliation links, I hope that will be clear enough for most people :)

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

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Post by soperj »

arihant wrote: 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.

I really like RedHat's Paas, Openshift.

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

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Post by Vhaeraun »

curun1r wrote: post #69
Vhaeraun wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 gener…

I completely agree with you - if you know all of the services that are mentioned here, you are probably well more experienced developer ("deployer"?) than me or other people that are the main audience for DeployStack. As for AWS, I mostly mention their LightSail plan, which is quite simple and straightforward (as in the case of Linode and DigitalOcean). GCE and Azure are definitely great tools and I see many people complaining about the lack of them on the website, but they are way more advanced than the scope of the DeployStack, at least for now. Thanks for the feedback, I will keep that in mind and try to add some more advanced sections in the future!

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

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Post by Vhaeraun »

avip wrote: post #24

Unclear why GC and Azure, both with amazing offerings, are not listed.

GC and Azure are great tools and I see many people complaining about the lack of them on DeployStack, but they are quite advanced options comparing to other services, so they don't really fit well in, let's say the 'Hosting' category (they have much more tools than just hosting, they could replace your whole tech stack). And I wanted DeployStack to be used as "choose your own tech stack" - if you need only hosting, those are the companies that are good and cheap with just hosting. If you already have a website but need to get some statistics - here are tools for uptime monitoring and here are some for analytics. Anyway, thanks for mentioning GC and Azure, I will keep that in mind and try to add some more advanced sections in the future, where they would fit perfectly.

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

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Post by Vhaeraun »

michalptacek wrote: post #67

This could be the "first to go" website for beginners when launching a new project :). However it misses some services such as Azure, CloudFare etc.

Thanks for the feedback. CloudFlare (which is a great service) is under the "Monthly Plans" for the CDN :) Azure and GCE are great tools and I see many people complaining about the lack of them on DeployStack, but they are quite advanced options comparing to other services, so they don't really fit well in, let's say the 'Hosting' category (they have much more tools than just hosting, they could replace your whole tech stack). And I wanted DeployStack to be used as "choose your own tech stack" - if you need only hosting, those are the companies that are good and cheap with just hosting. If you already have a website but need to get some statistics - here are tools for uptime monitoring and here are some for analytics. I will try to find a place for them in the next update to the website (maybe in a more advanced section).

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

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Post by Vhaeraun »

tehsuck wrote: post #44

Missing: http://surge.sh/ , also might be worth noting you can host a static site for free on GitHub.

Thanks, I didn't know about the surge, I will check it out for the next update (also static pages on GitHub is a great tool, I forgot to mention them).

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

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Post by fictioncircle »

newsat13 wrote: post #78
mxstbr wrote: 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

Does sentry collect logs or is it just for crash reports? What is a good log collector (preferably self-hosted)?

Sentry captures exception logs only and from within the application. You could probably use it to do any kind of event-based tracking but its quotas are pretty clearly intended for significant failure events that you would normally dump into the error log. (i.e. Fatal Errors as well as anything in a try/catch block)

An open source broad based log collecting/processing stack would be more like:

https://www.elastic.co/webinars/introduction-elk-stack

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

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Post by educar »

newsat13 wrote: post #76

Great list. Would like to see some self-hosted options here and not SaaS. Can I recommend cloudron.io? Just run it off a Digital Ocean or Linode server and you get all apps in https://cloudron.io/store/index.html (Mattermost, Nextcloud, Gitlab, Mailtrain, Ghost to name a few). Obviously, you still need a CDN and Domain but Lets Encrypt integration is built-in.

Does self-hosting make sense for startups/products that are launching? Curious to know if there are start ups out there who value self-hosting from the get go.

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

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Post by Vhaeraun »

newsat13 wrote: post #76

Great list. Would like to see some self-hosted options here and not SaaS. Can I recommend cloudron.io? Just run it off a Digital Ocean or Linode server and you get all apps in https://cloudron.io/store/index.html (Mattermost, Nextcloud, Gitlab, Mailtrain, Ghost to name a few). Obviously, you still need a CDN and Domain but Lets Encrypt integration is built-in.

Hey, thanks for the feedback. Self-hosting is a more advanced area (I would imagine large companies deciding to self-host, mainly for the privacy reasons, but not single developers), so it's out of the scope of DeployStack for now (I'm trying to focus on tools that would be more useful to single developers, start-ups). However, it could be a nice section for a page covering more advanced topics, so I will take a note of it for the future. Thanks!

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

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Post by brndn »

dublinben wrote: post #27
sampl wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could someone explain the hate for affiliate links? Maybe I'm just being naive, but as long as there's no suspicion of ratings bias, I'm fine with them. Ex: I've used thewirecutter.com recommendations for home supplies--and I'm happy to give the creators a kickback for their effort (at no cost to me).

Judging by the rest of the comments in this discussion, there are some very notable oversights missing from this list. It's not unlikely that is caused by a lack of referral program from those providers.

There may be notable services missing, but I wouldn't say it is an oversight. It seems the most popular or well-known services are covered and not all of them have referral links. Sure, there is room for improvement, but it seems to me that the creator put this together in good faith.
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