Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS

rvz wrote: post #5

What's the cost of something like this? IMO this looks a bit too complex and time consuming to manage. Why not something like Heroku?

A dedicated server at hetzner is about 30-35 dollars / month. That will get you a ryzen5/64 gigs/512 RAID-1 NVME on linux.

Heroku at that spec really starts to hit the wallet.

More than engouh for a lot of applications. Hell, I ran a E-commerce company with 20MM USD/year in sales on a dedicated server from 2005-2013.

Most things are plain vanilla and rock stable. I can go from new server to running my first services is less than an hour. Ansible or cloud-init go a long way to turning my pets into cattle, so to speak.

I spend nearly no time "managing it" -- I have grafana dashboards and Hetzner monitoring the critical things.

Happy to share more.

Re: Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS

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Post by Normal_gaussian » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 12:19 AM UTC

ssijak wrote: post #2

Goto stack for building SaaS is the one you know the best.

Yup. Build it, ship it, and spend the majority of the dev time writing integrations that aren't really made any easier by any particular framework.

Re: Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS

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Post by jayfk » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 12:22 AM UTC

I’ve built an Open Source Django starter template which uses a sinilar stack. It implements the full payment flow, basically ready to be deployed: https://getlaunchr.com/

It’s fairly new, all feedback greatly appreciated.

Re: Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS

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Post by dinkleberg » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 12:36 AM UTC

simplecto wrote: post #6

rvz wrote: post #5

What's the cost of something like this? IMO this looks a bit too complex and time consuming to manage. Why not something like Heroku?

A dedicated server at hetzner is about 30-35 dollars / month. That will get you a ryzen5/64 gigs/512 RAID-1 NVME on linux. Heroku at that spec really starts to hit the wallet. More than engouh for a lot of applications. Hell, I ran a E-commerce company with 20MM USD/year in sales on a dedicated server from 2005-2013. Most things are plain vanilla and rock stable. I can go from new server to running my first services…

Are you based in the US?

I see Hetzner mentioned often due to their great value, but given their EU location I’d imagine the latency isn’t ideal. I’m curious what your experience is.

When I’m looking for a cheap dedi box I use OVH or one of their related companies since they have Canada DCs which are closer.

Obviously if you are in the EU, Hetzner and scaleway are a great option.

Re: Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS

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Post by simplecto » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 12:40 AM UTC

dinkleberg wrote: post #9

simplecto wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A dedicated server at hetzner is about 30-35 dollars / month. That will get you a ryzen5/64 gigs/512 RAID-1 NVME on linux. Heroku at that spec really starts to hit the wallet. More than engouh for a lot of applications. Hell, I ran a E-commerce company with 20MM USD/year in sales on a dedicated server from 2005-2013. Most things are plain vanilla and rock stable. I can go from new server to running my first services…

Are you based in the US? I see Hetzner mentioned often due to their great value, but given their EU location I’d imagine the latency isn’t ideal. I’m curious what your experience is. When I’m looking for a cheap dedi box I use OVH or one of their related companies since they have Canada DCs which are closer. Obviously if you are in the EU, Hetzner and scaleway are a great option.

>75% of my visitors and users are in the US. The latency is simply not an issue. And surprisingly many in Malaysia.

I run my blog and some small SaaS utils. I've never had a complaint ever about speed, responsiveness, or latency.

I thought it was because I eschewed bloated front-end frameworks. ;-)