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Web: stbl + nginx on a linode.
Data Infrastructure: Nextcloud containerized on a linode.
Web framework: Ruby on Rails
UI JS/CSS Framework: Bootstrap, Bulma
DB: PostgreSQL
Hosting: Vultr, Digital Ocean, Heroku
External Products: Amazon SES, Sendgrid
Backend - Lambda / TypeScript
Infrastructure - AWS CDK / TypeScript
Kept in a monorepo, which means tightly-coupled code-sharing between all the different components.
Definitely has it's negatives - but being in small startup (solo technical) also means lots of interruptions and chopping and changing.
Having one language, stack, and repo makes it much easier to me to start, stop, and pick things up as I go.
Advantage: You can run a lot of stuff with a free tier setup, minimising the amount of investment in the beginning.
I use this setup to run https://www.surfgreen.dev
and to develop energy efficient, sustainable and green websites and webapps.
The platform is a hosting provider where every site runs off a Lambda function. As such, the hosting costs are miniscule ($0 for almost 2500 sites). The only real fees are the EC2 instances.
My customers are engineers (of the traditional type) and Windows is very popular among them. I chose VB.net because it solved some problems I was having with VB6, which I chose because I inherited it from my predecessor who used it when it was the fashionable thing.
Frontend - React / TypeScript Backend - Lambda / TypeScript Infrastructure - AWS CDK / TypeScript Kept in a monorepo, which means tightly-coupled code-sharing between all the different components. Definitely has it's negatives - but being in small startup (solo technical) also means lots of interruptions and chopping and changing. Having one language, stack, and repo makes it much easier to me to start, stop, and pic…
I create and sell business software for writing invoices and managing customers. It is also available for rent and I use the following stack for my own cloud: Debian, KVM, Apache, MySQL (with Percona for clustering), GlusterFS, rSync, HAProxy, PHP, jQuery I actually own 3 servers :) I know, it's super boring, but this stack has only failed me once in about five years. Yes, in my opinion this stack has helped me a lot…
Effect on success: knew the tech well so did not have to spend time learning the tech in addition to all the business learning.
Making a business is very involved. If you can simplify the technology side it’s a good idea.
React + bulma. Java 12/latest with homemade minimal stack. MySQL database. Digital ocean box running a tomcat servlet container.
I know it well and it is very fast to work with (fast edit / test / deploy cycle).