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Re: Ask HN: Where do you deploy to in 2018 and how?

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I do things in an old-school way. 2 Bare metal servers at different data centers with totaluptime.com acting as a load balancer with auto-failover. Deployment is done via SFTP by pressing the publish button in Visual Studio. This will deploy to the inactive server. I then manually trigger tests on GhostInspector (this could be automated via API) to make sure I didn't break anything. Then I run a custom script to make…

Thanks for sharing, I'm considering bare metal as well for a project. Is latency between the two data centers an issue for you, e.g. is one of your two servers running a SQL database as master?

Re: Ask HN: Where do you deploy to in 2018 and how?

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I do things in an old-school way. 2 Bare metal servers at different data centers with totaluptime.com acting as a load balancer with auto-failover. Deployment is done via SFTP by pressing the publish button in Visual Studio. This will deploy to the inactive server. I then manually trigger tests on GhostInspector (this could be automated via API) to make sure I didn't break anything. Then I run a custom script to make…

This is probably a very dumb question, but what exactly do you mean when you say you run bare metal servers at a data center?

I run a kind of similar setup sans Visual Studio, so I'm very interested in understanding your setup a little better.

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