A second-hand IBM X3650 in my basement. 16GB RAM, dual quad-core 3Ghz Xeons, dual power supplies, and hot-swap RAID 5 drives for less than $400 on eBay, connected through the Comcast connection I already have. The Comcast connection is the weak link. Google fiber would be so nice.
Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?
#32EC2 for some things, dedicated hardware for some others.
Where it sits, however, is only part of the problem!
I use plz[1] and instagit[2] in tandem via post-receive hooks to do the "deployment" bit, along with a service registry (closed-source, written on work time, boo!) like seaport[3] and a proxy based on httppp[4] to route requests to the right application.
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1. https://github.com/deoxxa/plz
2. https://github.com/deoxxa/instagit
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?
#33Since so many people here are saying Heroku, Linode, or AWS, I'm wondering if someone could explain the value proposition of these over a cheap VPS for most small to medium deployments. I can get a 4GB ram VPS for $10/m, which seems orders of magnitude cheaper than the popular options. What am I missing out on?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?
#34Heroku at the moment. It has a good selection of add-ons (neo4j hosted for free) and I've found it "good enough". I have used nodejitsu before but when they bumped up all their prices for seemingly no reason, I left. Nodejitsu supports websockets whereas heroku only supports polling. Deploying to nodejitsu was a tonne faster than heroku.
I haven't tried Nodejitsu yet, but their pricing looks really good because they have a $9/month plan for low volume web apps. My gripe about Heroku (which I have used on customer and my own projects) is that the minimum monthly price to get always-on service is $35/month. (The free tier unloads your app if it has no traffic for a while so the next user waits for a loading request). I have several personal projects th…
It is very easy to set up a service to ping your app once an hour to circumvent this.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?
#35Since so many people here are saying Heroku, Linode, or AWS, I'm wondering if someone could explain the value proposition of these over a cheap VPS for most small to medium deployments. I can get a 4GB ram VPS for $10/m, which seems orders of magnitude cheaper than the popular options. What am I missing out on?
Kool-aid
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?
#36Since so many people here are saying Heroku, Linode, or AWS, I'm wondering if someone could explain the value proposition of these over a cheap VPS for most small to medium deployments. I can get a 4GB ram VPS for $10/m, which seems orders of magnitude cheaper than the popular options. What am I missing out on?
For heroku and other PaaS's, there's no need to manage a server. Don't need to set it up, don't need to maintain it, keep software up to date, etc.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?
#37If you are looking for a self hosted solution I would recommend taking a look at Dokku. Its like a self hosted mini version of Heruko.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?
#38Could this post be made into a poll?
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?
#39I'm going to try modulus.io later on today. Obviously I don't have an opinion yet but my reason for giving it a try is that I've been told you get a free database instance in the same data center as your node instance, which is obviously good from a latency point of view.
I'm very curious modulus. Anyone else have any experience using them?
I just used them for a small project and was really happy with it. They provide just a couple environment vars attached to the process object and you're good to go.
I was talking to some of their employees at nodeconf this year and they explained that since Heroku only routes one request to an instance at a time, it essentially blocks on each request and you never get to actually leverage the concurrency of node.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?
#40digitalocean
Seconded. For our production game servers we've only used EC2 but a couple of us have started working with digitalocean for our own projects & are very happy with them all around.