Combination of labs, colo, and partnerships with other parties.
Varying types of platforms and degrees of control. Ansible is the most unanimous thing I can name
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#22Fly.io.
One command and it’s in another region, with my data thanks to litefs. It works great for my read heavy e-commerce app
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#23Extremely happy with supabase here, it has mostly eliminated the need for a backend, letting me just focus on making valuable stuff for my users. I also ended up making my entire app realtime just because it was easier
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#24Vercel after moving away from Docker containers running on AWS.
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#25Vercel after moving away from Docker containers running on AWS.
What are the advantages of Vercel over Cloudflare pages?
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#26My setup is a digital ocean box with docker compose scripts and watchtower for deploys. All I have to do is push a new image and it will deploy in prod. Database is as aged Postgres cause that’s all that is really important. Cloudflare for the smaller services.
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#27Self-hosted on a VPS is the first option for me, it's cheap and you have total control on everything. It's valid in my case because I know my way through infrastructure and configuration, so a panel isn't too much gain.
You sometimes can even get those for free - https://free-for.dev/#/?id=major-cloud-providers
For example, I have some (really) free instances on Oracle Cloud that I host pages, experiments, and so many things.
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#28Netlify for the front-end, google cloud for extended storage and Akamai for hosting. Akamai is great as they are less customizable than AWS (which is a good thing if you don’t need extra config) and much less expensive.
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#29Fully managed so I can spend my time on actually building features. In my case, AWS is my go to cloud, and even with a couple of thousand users, Lambda for compute, DynamoDB for database and SNS+SQS for eventing is costing me less than 5€ per month. Yes, there are risks with serverless if you get DDOSed or whatever, but it’s a risk I’m fine with, and can mitigate with gateways in front if necessary. And Lambdas are n…
Snap, I'm using CDK to set it all up too which makes everything pretty easy to manage.
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#30We have our own servers (mostly consumer pc parts) and run lxd to slice them up into vms/containers. Deploy to those using kamal and expose the web server port through cloudflare tunnels. With simple scripts to periodically compress and upload the storage volumes and database dumps to Google drive, most of our less critical apps cost about $0 to keep running. For the higher criticality apps, we also deploy them to Linux vms using kamal, but use a commercial service (linode).