I am running a few one man saas's on a 2.99$ vps (1 per project) with php, mysql and nginx.
Where are you renting a VPS for 2.99$/mo? OVH?
Probably Hetzner.
The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
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Re: The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
#202I'd argue that just about every infrastructure that looks like this benefits from Kubernetes (that you're not setting up and managing), and that's a lot of them. The biggest problem is that not enough people have boiled down Kubernetes enough to look like heroku yet. Google Cloud Run is possibly the best example of what Kubernetes can look like/run like -- it runs on (probably a relatively heavily modified) KNative,…
Can you point out any tutorials or guides on how to set up kubernetes simply? I'm wondering what the best way to deploy my app with minimal effort is - you make it sound like kubernetes is the answer.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
Edge locations refer to the CDN which his static assets are served from, i.e. HTML, JS, CSS, images. Not customers data.
Data is passed through -unencrypted- those edge locations though.
What data exactly?
They serve HTML, CSS, JS, and images. The actual data is transmitted using AJAX requests towards an HTTPS API in EU.
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#204Since you're in Germany, how do you handle VAT, EU tax returns, invoices, etc? What about taxes and invoices to other countries?
I am wondering about this too. Tax compliance is complicated and Stripe doesn't do much for you on this front.
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#205Re: The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
cloud vendor lock-in fears are overblown. pricing and features will always be competitive between the big vendors. I suspect people waste a lot of time/money trying to be cloud agnostic. Real vendor lock-in is when you have decades of code written against an Oracle DB and you're getting charged outrageous Oracle rates and it would also cost a fortune migrate.
My worry with these providers is I get locked out of my accounts for some arbitrary reason or bug.
Yeah and in the case of google, good luck finding support.
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#207This is probably not the best place to ask this question, but as a solo founder or just to reduce costs/time are there some standard free software packages that are used when creating sites? For example most sites need a user sign up mechaism, a authN and authX mechanism to gate access to different pages. Are there open source projects that provide this? Or do site owners develop these from scratch every time?
a few to get you started:
- https://github.com/vercel/nextjs-subscription-payments
- https://bedrock.mxstbr.com/
Re: The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
#208The secret management seems overly complex, why not use https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-secrets-controll... or https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/secret/ ?
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#209The author almost seems to apologize for having a django monolith. But it's worth realising that one purpose of code organisation in larger companies is to mirror the team organisation. That's a constraint on code that can interfere with the best technical architecture. You can do better with a monolith in a one-man team!
you can do better with a monolith on a ten-person team, or a 300 person team. Monoliths have their advantages
Re: The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
#210One thing I noticed a lot with indie or "one-man" startups is they make ample use of other SaaS tooling, often lesser heard of or known ones as well.
I am not sure what the right answer is, but I at least appreciate that there founders out there willing to give the little-er shops a chance. A healthy ecosystem with competition is good for the most amount of people.