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Wow, I asked this questions 9 years ago to find inspiration to build my own successful one-person business. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243 I am happy to report that I am now running a very successful one-person business and killing it! Only joking... I'm still reading HN posts about successful one-person businesses for inspiration and working for the man. Time does fly though...
Never give up
I’ve been running https://pollylingu.al as a single person company for a few years now.
I've posted before and never share any specific details. I run a small one-person business in a niche industry selling a 'widget'. Profitable from day 1, pays all the bills but is not the sole income. Got started by seeing a need in an adjacent industry and building the product. I do everything myself: dev, qa, support, everything. It's not too bad at this size, and I can probably scale and continue on my own at 10x…
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That is really awesome. > nuke the VM once a year and re-provision otherwise you have to maintain the OS, do cleanup etc That is really interesting. What are you using to re-setup your entire infrastructure after purging a VM? How do you manage the down time between one vm purge to setting up the next one. I would love to know, going beyond the VPS what is your total infrastructure + maintenance cost.
Thanks :) I set things up again on the new VM manually. I have a runbook for it, usually takes me 30 mins or less. To not have any downtime I keep the old VM up and attach a new public IP to the new VM. I then update the DNS records and after a while when the new IP is mapped to my domain I then stop the old VM. Costs: Managed Mongodb cluster: $9 but I share it between multiple side projects so let's say $3 API healt…
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Thanks :) I set things up again on the new VM manually. I have a runbook for it, usually takes me 30 mins or less. To not have any downtime I keep the old VM up and attach a new public IP to the new VM. I then update the DNS records and after a while when the new IP is mapped to my domain I then stop the old VM. Costs: Managed Mongodb cluster: $9 but I share it between multiple side projects so let's say $3 API healt…
Can you please say the services you use for DNS, Docker image storage?
Docker Image - Since I'm running this most of the operation on AWS I use ECR