I found Cloudflare's offering to be more than enough and get multi regional deployment.
I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
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Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
#492> I use Linode or DigitalOcean. Pay no more than $5 to $10 a month. 1GB of RAM sounds terrifying to modern web developers, but it is plenty if you know what you are doing. If you get one dedicated server for multiple separate projects, you can still keep the costs down but relax those constraints. For example, look at the Hetzner server auction: https://www.hetzner.com/sb/ I pay about 40 EUR a month for this: Disk: 7…
> I put Proxmox on it [...] How, exactly? Doesn't it require phyiscal access to the server?
No.
1) Many hosters provide OS templates including popular ones like Proxmox.
2) Usually you can install any OS by providing an ISO, sometimes doing it via KVM remote access.
Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
#493Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, 25 years in the industry, zero business ideas right here. I can build whatever, I just have zero clue whatsoever what to build. Never have.
Are you guys interested in some ideas? It seems to me that I am getting much more good ideas than I can carry on.
Sure fire away maybe this time something clicks for someone :)
Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
#494Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well continuous attempts definitely bogged down my desktop pretty bad. Also, getting OOM on a 64gb machine multiple times a day is quiet annoying. And one simple mistake, and we're screwed
Yeah that sounds quite annoying, but has nothing to do with ssh log noise. Maybe investigate what's causing the OOM. I have multiple 1GB vps with ssh open to the world and they never OOM, and they're obviously not just running ssh. It sounds like you've been compromised.
The number of attempts were staggering though, i think there were requests every seconds non-stop.
Once I changed the ssh port to a large number, the OOM and heavy CPU usage stopped, and never came back. So, I think I'm safe, though I keep an eye on the logs, and for any unknown processes, but never seen anything out of ordinary.
The 64gb machine is my dev machine, as my IDE(intellij) runs on high memory config and I run some heavy process, it could've been combined with the ssh spam it went OOM. I still run all the things, without any issues now.
Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
#495Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you know why it is a toy? Because in a real prod environment after inserting 240k rows per second for a while you have to deal with the fact that schema evolution is required. Good luck migrating those huge tables with Sqlite ALTER table implementation
This doesn't seem like a toy but you know... realizing different systems will have different constraints. Not everyone needs monopolistic tech to do their work. There's probably less than 10,000 companies on earth that truly need to write 240k rows/second. For everyone else, we can focus on better things.
> realizing different systems will have different constraints.
I realize that. There are a few comments already that present use cases where I can totally see using Sqlite as a good option.
> Not everyone needs monopolistic tech to do their work
We are talking about localhost Postgres vs SQLite here. Both are open source.
Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
#496Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'll get thousand of attacks a day (and it's been years since I have done this, so probably worse). They try the list of 1000 or so most common passwords across the whole internet. It works often enough to be cost effective.
Yeah exactly. If your password can be bruteforced in 1000 or so attempts you have bigger problems than not having fail2ban on ssh. The parent comment was suggesting someone was hacked in an hour for leaving ssh on default settings, and it's obviously not true.
particularly as VPS providers typically auto assign a random character root password, suggests the weak one was specifically changed
Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
#497Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've slowly evolved from just writing to and looking up json files to using SQLite, since I had to do a bit more advanced querying. I'm glad I did. But the defaults did surprise me! I'm using it with php, and I noticed some inserts were failing. Turns out there's no tolerance for concurrent writes, and there's no global config that can be changed. Rertry/timeout has to be configured per connection. I'm still not sure…
This is the fault/price of backwards compatibility. Most users of SQLite should just fire off a few pragmas on each connection: PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON # Something non-null PRAGMA busy_timeout = 1000 # This is fine for most applications, but see the manual PRAGMA synchronous = NORMAL # If you use it as a file format PRAGMA trusted_schema = OFF You might need additional options, depending on…
> PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL
Pretty sure this is a persistent setting. Don't need to set it per-connection.
Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
#498granted my mmr is not 10k but I also run my apps on $6 digital ocean up until I need a background job which I raise it to $12 server
Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
#499Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'll get thousand of attacks a day (and it's been years since I have done this, so probably worse). They try the list of 1000 or so most common passwords across the whole internet. It works often enough to be cost effective.
Yeah exactly. If your password can be bruteforced in 1000 or so attempts you have bigger problems than not having fail2ban on ssh. The parent comment was suggesting someone was hacked in an hour for leaving ssh on default settings, and it's obviously not true.
You're misreading my point. I didn't recommend 'fail2ban' or claimed any machine without it is as good as compromised. I recommended removing the attack surface entirely by not exposing SSH to the public internet. The point is removing an attack surface completely instead of relying on operator competency.
Relying on a 'sane password' is like seeing the stat '1 out of 10 cars is left unlocked' and commenting 'Yeah, but those people are stupid, I'd never forget to lock mine!'. While maybe true, it's irrelevant. It's objectively safer to keep the car in a private garage (Tailscale) than to leave it on a public street. Feel free to leave your car wherever.
Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
#500> I use Linode or DigitalOcean. Pay no more than $5 to $10 a month. 1GB of RAM sounds terrifying to modern web developers, but it is plenty if you know what you are doing. If you get one dedicated server for multiple separate projects, you can still keep the costs down but relax those constraints. For example, look at the Hetzner server auction: https://www.hetzner.com/sb/ I pay about 40 EUR a month for this: Disk: 7…
might also consider using a solution such as disco [1] which avoids requiring VMs while still allowing the ergonomics of cloud services.
at the end of the day, for a "$20/month" stack, there may probably not be enough services running to make sense for going dedicated yet.