Is there a better option than heroku for under 10$ a month for python app and db support ?
Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
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Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#32Hetzner + docker swarm can take you long way for a fraction of cost of any next alternative
And for a fraction of a mental burden and stress of the lightest k8s setup you can imagine
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#33Buy some used servers on eBay, at least 3 will do for redundancy, then get 2 internet connections. Set up another server to act as your opnsense firewall/router and bond the two internet connections together. Make sure to buy a pair of UPSs for power back up. Install kubernetes and rook ceph with about 12 hard drives (redundancy) then find a friend who can host another server for offside backups. Dont forget the tape drive system for your second media. Start deploying gittea so you can host your code. Use argocd so you can have a build system. Deploy dapr so you can host all of your microservices in a standard way. Deploy otel and alertmanager so you can hook it into the only cloud service you need: OpsGenie (don't forget to winge the whole time you use it)
That way you can write an article about how much cheaper self hosting is compared to the cloud and get your next round of investment.
On a serious note. The next startup I do I'm going to just use supabase.
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#34I'm using Modal (modal.com). Works with my Python heavy stack.
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#35S3 buckets for the SPA's, AWS Lambda, API Gateway and EC2 for a MySQL instance. Some SQS to help with orchestration of the operational stuff. Have about 5k MAU and total cost barely breaks 40$ a month.
Chose this because it's the stack I'm super familiar with.
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#36Render. Happy with it for now as a prototyping / MVP tool. Won’t be able to continue forever due to HIPAA requirements and not sure how it scales anyway.
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#37This is not for a business, but I am working on a side project that uses node.js + sqlite and the entire stack will run on a single Lightsail instance ($5 per month)
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#38Is there a better option than heroku for under 10$ a month for python app and db support ?
Render is great but is more like $20 a month for app and managed Postgres
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#39Buy some used servers on eBay, at least 3 will do for redundancy, then get 2 internet connections. Set up another server to act as your opnsense firewall/router and bond the two internet connections together. Make sure to buy a pair of UPSs for power back up. Install kubernetes and rook ceph with about 12 hard drives (redundancy) then find a friend who can host another server for offside backups. Dont forget the tape…
Only about 10% of this comes off as sarcastic in the context of HN.
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#40Buy some used servers on eBay, at least 3 will do for redundancy, then get 2 internet connections. Set up another server to act as your opnsense firewall/router and bond the two internet connections together. Make sure to buy a pair of UPSs for power back up. Install kubernetes and rook ceph with about 12 hard drives (redundancy) then find a friend who can host another server for offside backups. Dont forget the tape…
Only about 10% of this comes off as sarcastic in the context of HN.
Just one server and skip the redundancy. Then it's kinda manageable