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API & Platform Results:
Rails: @Railway wins. Render wakeup boot extremely slow (~1m). Flyio cannot run Rails for free.
Crystal: @Render wins. 5-10s wakeup boot time. Railway & Fly keep growing memory infinitely.
Node: @flydotio + Railway both win. Very slow boot on Render.
fly.io is a big deal. It's not as easy as Heroku as there's no managed Postgres, but it's well-documented with a few paths. However, the main reason Fly stands out is their focus on multi-region deployments. Ever wondered why facebook.com is fast no matter where you are? Fly provides app-level tooling to make this superpower available to everyone. It's especially important if you're making heavy use of Web Sockets. E…
They're doing that in the app? GeoDNS has been around for quite some time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoDNS or more thoroughly explained: https://jameshfisher.com/2017/02/08/how-does-geodns-work/
I have a linode vps with a wordpress blog up but I want to learn docker and host my apps on there for 5 dollars a month.
We are really recommending https://www.clever-cloud.com/ . Their stack is awesome, great uptime and great support.
Basically these three
- caprover
- dokku
- k8s
We are really recommending https://www.clever-cloud.com/ . Their stack is awesome, great uptime and great support.
The truth is, on this scale Heroku worked well too. The reason to move for me was that they are an EU company so there is less questions from my clients about GDPR compliance.
I'd say the UI is quite old-school and I am missing good built-in metrics. There are some paid add-ons providing metrics but I'd really want to have it built-in.
We have been using "Amazon Web Services". They should market their services more, they definitely have a bright future...