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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?
#42Hetzner + 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
I did something like this for a while when I was messing around with my personal website, but with one node in Hetzner and other in Linode. It was a really nice way of managing services without bringing a full kitchen sink factory factory.
The only thing I found lacking was an easy way to share volumes across nodes. There's plugins and stuff, but for me it was not worth the effort.
I ended up just ditching Linode and having everything in a single Hetzner VPS. I can do this because it was mostly experimenting and didn't really need to have more than one server. But for this specific case, the volumes thing was what ended up tipping the balance in favor of only having a single server because it wasn't worth the effort.
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#43Hetzner + 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
I run 2 rails websites with hundreds of real daily users on a single shared 2cpu/2gb vps, inlcuding 1 staging env, postgres db, memcache for caching.
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#44Hetzner + 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
I did something like this for a while when I was messing around with my personal website, but with one node in Hetzner and other in Linode. It was a really nice way of managing services without bringing a full kitchen sink factory factory. The only thing I found lacking was an easy way to share volumes across nodes. There's plugins and stuff, but for me it was not worth the effort. I ended up just ditching Linode and…
How often solopreneurs can’t get away with just 1 beefy machine? Or at least with just 1 vps provider to share extra volumes
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#45Buy 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…
Self-hosting using FTTH is many orders of magnitude more stable than home based internet used to be.
A lot of the description above can be run pretty easily with Proxmox, which itself is a web based gui to setup said redundancy (even can run it as hybrid cloud with failover to the major cloud providers).
This approach can greatly simplify and reduce dependency formation on one cloud service in particular.
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#46Steam! No server at all save that.
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#47For static web apps like my portfolio and blog[1], I use GitHub+Netlify.
I try to use AWS Lambdas as serverless backend as much as possible, for API products like [2].
If a server is absolutely required like running a Ghost blog/newsletter [3], I use AWS Lightsail mainly because I'm familiar with AWS in general and it offers generous free tier.
[1]: https://ivylee.github.io/
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#48“rails s” on a droplet
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#49Fly.io + EdgeDB cloud.
Re: Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?
#50Hosted a few small but profitable web sites on Hostgator since 2005 - cheap and no need to worry about infrastructure beyond hosting files. Only problems have been wordpress sites getting hacked.