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- Ruby on Rails
- Postgres
- Redis
- AWS S3
- Heroku
I choose Rails since it allowed me to get off the ground running and hosted it on Heroku for its ease of use and it saves me a lot of time with its default configurations.
I don’t have many clients now but I should be able to handle hundreds of users on my current setup based on my pod testing.
Ruby on Rails, with a couple React bits in there for “islands of interactivity”. Coupled with old-skool Heroku it lets me punch above my weight class, iterate like you would not believe, and focus on the business. I only recently moved to Rails though. Before that I was full stack TypeScript, which was cool and I still miss the static types, but it’s worth going without them.
Yeah I was evaluating back-end tech stack for a recent side project, most of my work these days is in TypeScript or C++, so a large part of me wanted to have types and go with a TypeScript/Node stack... but on further evaluation, both Django and Rails let you do so much on the back end with so little code, just by following their conventions and using off-the-shelf libraries, that I'm willing to trade off types in ex…
- Digital Ocean VPS running Ubuntu
- Let's Encrypt certificate
- Simple Analytics
- Nginx + PHP
- SleekDB NoSQL
- AWS SES email
- Cloudflare CDN
The problem with this question is it is akin to those people on photography forums and elsewhere asking "what camera / lens / ISO /shutter speed / aperture" did you use ? As if somehow having the same combination will give them the same results. Surely the correct and only answer is "the right tech stack for the job". Trying to shoehorn everything into one chosen stack is only likely to end in dismal failure. Switchi…
Thus, seeing what others are using with those constraints can be constructive.
I run a side project podcatcher site https://jcasts.io . As I don't have a lot of spare time and this isn't making money, simple+cheap are important factors, so I stick with what I'm familiar with and only adopt new things when I have the need. - Django Enough said, really, it's a solid workhorse with a healthy ecosystem. The admin feature is very useful for simple backend data management. No other particular reason…
I use almost the same stack, except instead of Alpine + htmx I just use Unpoly. Have you tried it? If so, why did you prefer your choices? Any reason you'd recommend your approach? https://unpoly.com
I also used Hotwire for a while, but that seemed much more of a Rails thing and again, htmx was just a better fit for what I needed to do.
It's dead simple.
- A static HTML page using Go Hugo to build the pages.
- Hosted on Netlify
- zapier runs daily to rebuid the site and update everything automatically
- Code on github and images stored on netlify
- Bootstrap for CSS
- I have a small server that runs the email software to send out the custom made email.
- Actual end email sender is sendgrid.
Between the site and emails, art is being viewed more than ~25,000 a month.
Total cost? $22 a month (Though I'm going to have to start spending $35)
https://recordwise.ch - helping founders incorporate in Switzerland: - Django/Python - SQLite - Celery and Redis for task queues - Bootstrap4 - jQuery - Sentry for error tracking - Stripe for payments - EmailOctopus for newsletter - SendGrid for transactional emails - NameCheap for the domain - Linode for hosting Running costs are USD 7/month for Linode + USD 15/year for the domain. SendGrid is currently free through…
Hey, is this service open for non-Swiss residents? If yes, is there an English version of the website available? Thank you. :)
For capacity reasons (company of one) and due to my focus towards Swiss founders, the site is currently only available in German.
I run a file sharing / content delivery platform called pixeldrain: https://pixeldrain.com The system serves 4 PB of data to 60 million visitors per month. I have served 30 PB and 700 million file views since I started tracking usage somewhere in 2018. I'll go from front to back: - Most of the frontend is plain HTML, CSS and JS. I have started transitioning some pages to Svelte. I like this framework for its speed an…
Just few questions I have:
- What is your total infra cost? A cost split between storage & servers would be an awesome insight
- Since how long you have been running this service?
- How did you keep up with the infra cost before breaking even?
https://boxy-svg.com - vector graphics editor similar to Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator. Both client- and server-side code is written with vanilla JavaScript. Since I'm targeting only Electron and modern Chromium-based browsers I can use latest web technologies without any transpilers or preprocessors. I'm using mostly raw DOM APIs without any abstraction layers. Third-party services: - Firebase (database, storage, h…