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Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
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Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#102I do not usually comment on Hacker News, but heck, I am actually proud of what I am building this time. I run an open-source WordPress hosting company focused on privacy — well, kinda, it is in closed beta —, so my stack is, maybe, a little boring. Dedicated AMD 32 core RAID 10 servers from Hetzner running LXD for customer containers — seven containers per server on the cheapest plan. Each dedicated server has their…
>my stack is, maybe, a little boring.
>Dedicated AMD 32 core RAID 10 servers from Hetzner running LXD for customer containers — seven containers per server on the cheapest plan. Each dedicated server has their filesystem encrypted with LUKS — including /boot
>All servers run a slightly modified version of Ubuntu, resolve DNS queries using one of my 8 DNSCrypt servers, are managed using on-premise Canonical Landscape and connect to a Hashicorp Vault instance for credentials and whatnot.
>Backups are handled by another big Hetzner server — sitting at 60 TB of storage right now
... I'd love to see what you consider exciting!
Just a side note, do you all have revenue? This seems very overbuilt for a private beta product.
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#103Frontend - 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…
>monorepo, which means tightly-coupled code-sharing between all the different components.
It's funny how one persons dream is another person's nightmare.
Tightly coupled software is horrifying to me. Modularization all the way; define contracts then build away.
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#104AWS EC2 instance running basic Ubuntu, Amazon RDS running MySQL, Nginx for SSL termination and proxy to application server, Lets Encrypt for SSL cert generation/maintenance, Apache Tomcat for said application server, Java codebase for REST services ( Jersey/Jackson and the odd Servlet ), Materialize for some visual JS conveniences, Plan ole HTML and JQuery for the rest of the front end. It's a minimal stack with inte…
KISS at its max.
Always good to underbuild then adopt complications as needed.
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#105https://epiphany.pub/ My frontend is vue.js My backend is in a home made c++ framework. I'm rewriting it to achieve even higher performance and concurrency. I think my choice of c++ helps me save server resources, and it can be deployed easily. (just scp a folder of a few binaries) my database is mongodb for now. However, I want to switch to postgresql.
Can you share what cpp stack u are using ?
Thanks
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#106I do not usually comment on Hacker News, but heck, I am actually proud of what I am building this time. I run an open-source WordPress hosting company focused on privacy — well, kinda, it is in closed beta —, so my stack is, maybe, a little boring. Dedicated AMD 32 core RAID 10 servers from Hetzner running LXD for customer containers — seven containers per server on the cheapest plan. Each dedicated server has their…
>my stack is, maybe, a little boring. >Dedicated AMD 32 core RAID 10 servers from Hetzner running LXD for customer containers — seven containers per server on the cheapest plan. Each dedicated server has their filesystem encrypted with LUKS — including /boot >All servers run a slightly modified version of Ubuntu, resolve DNS queries using one of my 8 DNSCrypt servers, are managed using on-premise Canonical Landscape…
> ... I'd love to see what you consider exciting!
I mean, in the age of Kubernetes and AWS, having your entire stack running on a single server does sound kinda dull to most people. I rather have the performance and simplicity, though.
> Just a side note, do you all have revenue? This seems very overbuilt for a private beta product.
Yes. All customers on the private beta have a 50% discount, but our profit margin is pretty high, to be honest.
The "Medium" plan, which is where all tests are happening, cost us €215,88 per month, which includes the dedicated server, one IP address for each LXD container, about 700 GB of bandwidth from BunnyCDN and emails by Mailgun.
In that plan, we offer 16 GB of ECC memory and 240 GB of NVMe storage. One of our competitors charge $1500 per month for 200 GB of storage, our price is €599.00 per month.
So even with high-profit margins, our cost is below our competition. Which makes you wonder how much profit they make.
But, of course, none of this account for operational costs, employee costs, SaaS costs and things like premium plugins which are offered by default and CDN bandwidth above 700GB — which realistically speaking, will be higher for some customers.
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#107I do not usually comment on Hacker News, but heck, I am actually proud of what I am building this time. I run an open-source WordPress hosting company focused on privacy — well, kinda, it is in closed beta —, so my stack is, maybe, a little boring. Dedicated AMD 32 core RAID 10 servers from Hetzner running LXD for customer containers — seven containers per server on the cheapest plan. Each dedicated server has their…
I run a small publication (7K users/mo) with my wife (a Journalist) on digital ocean VPS.
I have cloudflare setup on top and a custom backup plugin for wordpress.
I am now considering the kubernetes route to split the editing and frontend workflows.
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
>my stack is, maybe, a little boring. >Dedicated AMD 32 core RAID 10 servers from Hetzner running LXD for customer containers — seven containers per server on the cheapest plan. Each dedicated server has their filesystem encrypted with LUKS — including /boot >All servers run a slightly modified version of Ubuntu, resolve DNS queries using one of my 8 DNSCrypt servers, are managed using on-premise Canonical Landscape…
> ... I'd love to see what you consider exciting! I mean, in the age of Kubernetes and AWS, having your entire stack running on a single server does sound kinda dull to most people. I rather have the performance and simplicity, though. > Just a side note, do you all have revenue? This seems very overbuilt for a private beta product. Yes. All customers on the private beta have a 50% discount, but our profit margin is…
Kubernetes and wordpress is not that simple. Might be sexy, but not simple.
For me, the stopper is WP is thought to be used inside a server with _mutable_ access to everything; whilst k8s needs containers.
This looks good for day-to-day use until you realize your wp needs updating and needs to be done by the operator/editor and somehow propagated back to the system that builds the container.
Usually this is an air gap.
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
> ... I'd love to see what you consider exciting! I mean, in the age of Kubernetes and AWS, having your entire stack running on a single server does sound kinda dull to most people. I rather have the performance and simplicity, though. > Just a side note, do you all have revenue? This seems very overbuilt for a private beta product. Yes. All customers on the private beta have a 50% discount, but our profit margin is…
Kubernetes and wordpress is not that simple. Might be sexy, but not simple. For me, the stopper is WP is thought to be used inside a server with _mutable_ access to everything; whilst k8s needs containers. This looks good for day-to-day use until you realize your wp needs updating and needs to be done by the operator/editor and somehow propagated back to the system that builds the container. Usually this is an air ga…
I dislike Kubernetes in general, and much prefer something like LXD for WordPress.
My point was that most people consider my way of doing things "boring", while everything else, i.e., serverless technology, is over hyped.
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#110Frontend - 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…
>monorepo, which means tightly-coupled code-sharing between all the different components. It's funny how one persons dream is another person's nightmare. Tightly coupled software is horrifying to me. Modularization all the way; define contracts then build away.
Tightly-coupled doesn't necessarily mean you don't have contracts.
In this case, the contract is shared TypeScript types between the front and back-ends. This means you can statically verify as much as the type system allows.