Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

DigitalOcean App Platform

pages.news.digitalocean.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

281–290 of 357 posts

Re: DigitalOcean App Platform

#281

Post by ilmiont »

I was really excited about this when I got the email a few weeks ago with a beta invite but after two minutes I realised I’d be unable to use it, and still can’t now it’s launched...

Why oh why is GitHub now considered the single place where code lives? Even as alternative providers gain in popularity.

It’s really sad to see DigitalOcean requiring this for some reason.

Please either allow use of arbitrary Git repositories (e.g. self-hosted GitLab in my use case) or provide a stand-alone CLI tool to enable deployment of anything, like Firebase does.

Disappointing so far.

Re: DigitalOcean App Platform

#282

Post by edem »

ilmiont wrote: post #281

I was really excited about this when I got the email a few weeks ago with a beta invite but after two minutes I realised I’d be unable to use it, and still can’t now it’s launched... Why oh why is GitHub now considered the single place where code lives? Even as alternative providers gain in popularity. It’s really sad to see DigitalOcean requiring this for some reason. Please either allow use of arbitrary Git reposit…

Maybe 95% of people use it and it made sense to them, who knows?

Re: DigitalOcean App Platform

#283

Post by wastedhours »

user5994461 wrote: post #75

I am so glad to see this. I was looking to deploy an app and the choice is either Heroku or manage your own server which I don't want to do. Heroku gives instant deployment for the most common types of apps (python/java/ruby). It's PaaS done right, it's fantastic. You should really have a look if you're not aware of it, it's only $7 for a starter app. Problem is, scaling up is about $50 per gigabyte of memory which m…

This is why if you're in the Rails world, I'll always recommend Hatchbox [0]. It takes the PaaS layer from Heroku and applies it to generic nodes on DO or AWS - I'm grandfathered into a really good plan price, but even as it stands today, if you're building Rails apps, it's a great option.

[0] https://www.hatchbox.io/

Re: DigitalOcean App Platform

#284

Post by RikNieu »

ilmiont wrote: post #281

I was really excited about this when I got the email a few weeks ago with a beta invite but after two minutes I realised I’d be unable to use it, and still can’t now it’s launched... Why oh why is GitHub now considered the single place where code lives? Even as alternative providers gain in popularity. It’s really sad to see DigitalOcean requiring this for some reason. Please either allow use of arbitrary Git reposit…

I hope this is in the backlog, because I'm not switching for GitLab for this.

Re: DigitalOcean App Platform

#285

Post by fauigerzigerk »

manigandham wrote: post #271
donmcronald wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. I don't think so. The concern for me is a lack of hard limit on spending on GCP, Azure, and AWS. If I screw up and allocate a bunch of resources unintentionally, I'm left holding the bill. That's a terrible setup for PaaS because all programming involves mistakes eventually, especially for new users learning the system. Granted, there are likely limits on accounts, but those are to protect the services from fraud…

Hard spend limits are not an easy problem with cloud. There are too many things that incur costs. Everytime this comes up, I ask the same question: what do you expect to happen when the quota is hit? Shutdown your servers? Wipe your SSDs and storage buckets? Remove your DNS records? Should it be permanent? If not then they're just subsidizing the costs. If it's soft-limit then its just a warning, and if you just want…

I want all services to be rate limited. What I don't want is for some runaway process (whatever the cause) to bankrupt me before I can respond to any alerts (i.e within hours).

In other words, I don't necessarily need to set a hard spending limit, but I want to set a hard spending growth limit (allowing for short bursts), either directly in monetary terms or indirectly through rate limits on individual services.

Re: DigitalOcean App Platform

#286

Post by nijave »

user5994461 wrote: post #75

I am so glad to see this. I was looking to deploy an app and the choice is either Heroku or manage your own server which I don't want to do. Heroku gives instant deployment for the most common types of apps (python/java/ruby). It's PaaS done right, it's fantastic. You should really have a look if you're not aware of it, it's only $7 for a starter app. Problem is, scaling up is about $50 per gigabyte of memory which m…

Not exactly cheap but run.pivotal.io (cloud foundry) and openshift online are both $25 GB/min which is a little more accessible. I'm not sure about Pivotal's online platform but PCF has some pretty simple autoscaling plugins that could spin down instances during low usage

A lot of Fortune 500 companies have Cloud Foundry setups and it's built on some of the same tech as Heroku so it's fairly accessible

Re: DigitalOcean App Platform

#287

Post by user5994461 »

IgorPartola wrote: post #245
user5994461 wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had #1 multiple times. I've had articles that stayed on the front page for multiple days. Wouldn't be surprised if I'm top 1% of personal bloggers on HN or something like that. I'd be shelling out AWS thousands of dollars over the years if I were using anything AWS, or more likely I'd be either broke or the blog would have crumbled under the traffic each time never going viral.

I don’t usually do this but I decided to check your post history. I don’t know if anyone else posted your blog posts to HN but assuming it’s just you, I counted five posts (excluding the flagged ones) that would have made it to the front page of HN for any meaningful amount of time. Based on this, I would say that you are unlikely to be HN’a top blogger. And I don’t know how you’d set up your blog with AWS but I don’…

Wrong assumption, a fair bunch of the posts came from other people :p

I honestly wonder what's the average distribution for HN contributors. I imagine it's not much for personal blogs. Not trying to compare myself to the new york times or cloudflare blog obviously.

Re: DigitalOcean App Platform

#288

Post by user5994461 »

bigbluedots wrote: post #249
user5994461 wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have images in almost every post. Diagram, schemas, stock images, gif, anything. I guess you don't? The difference between $2 and $20 will strike when you start having pictures and with $200 the day you (accidentally) put a large image or GIF.

This could be an issue (from your site link in a previous comment): With an ad blocker, this page takes 83 requests to load a total of 2.31 MB.

It's because of images and comments, both of which are critical to a blog. There's one request per image no matter what.

Wordpress is actually really good on that, it's resizing the images automatically for thumbnails and mobiles with caching.

Re: DigitalOcean App Platform

#289

Post by lloydatkinson »

raphaeljlps wrote: post #147
lloydatkinson wrote: post #136

Disappointing to not see .NET Core support in 2020

Completely agree! I mean not even Java, which are two of the most used Languages/Platforms in the world.

All these new platforms seem to solely focus on JS/TS/Node (fair enough), Python (hmm I suppose that has a reasonable market share) and Go.

Really, Go? It's barely used!

Re: DigitalOcean App Platform

#290

Post by SifJar »

ilmiont wrote: post #281

I was really excited about this when I got the email a few weeks ago with a beta invite but after two minutes I realised I’d be unable to use it, and still can’t now it’s launched... Why oh why is GitHub now considered the single place where code lives? Even as alternative providers gain in popularity. It’s really sad to see DigitalOcean requiring this for some reason. Please either allow use of arbitrary Git reposit…

From article:

> You can deploy the source code directly from your GitHub repositories (support for GitLab and Bitbucket is coming soon).

Naming specific git hosts suggests it may not be available on "arbitrary Git repositiories" in the near future, but looks like they are at least planning to broaden the options for where to have your code live

Post reply on HN