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Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

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Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

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Post by Vhaeraun »

Hey everyone,

I have created this website after struggling with deploying my website for the first time (which one of the 1000+ hosting companies to chose? How to get a cheap domain? Analytics, monitoring, what other tools I need?) and I thought it might be useful for others. There are no advertisements and it was not sponsored by any company, I did a lot of reading, checked different services and picked up those that offer the best value for money and are recommended by other developers. I tried to add coupon codes where applicable. I have submitted DeployStack few months ago and got some good feedback, so I added a bunch of new tools and redesigned it to be more clear. Let me know if you think it's interesting and useful.

Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

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Post by harrisreynolds »

Vhaeraun wrote: post #2

Hey everyone, I have created this website after struggling with deploying my website for the first time (which one of the 1000+ hosting companies to chose? How to get a cheap domain? Analytics, monitoring, what other tools I need?) and I thought it might be useful for others. There are no advertisements and it was not sponsored by any company, I did a lot of reading, checked different services and picked up those tha…

Pretty cool website!! I've launched lots of sites so I'm familiar with most of these tools. But was still able to learn a few things from this.

Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

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Post by Vhaeraun »

harrisreynolds wrote: post #3
Vhaeraun wrote: post #2

Hey everyone, I have created this website after struggling with deploying my website for the first time (which one of the 1000+ hosting companies to chose? How to get a cheap domain? Analytics, monitoring, what other tools I need?) and I thought it might be useful for others. There are no advertisements and it was not sponsored by any company, I did a lot of reading, checked different services and picked up those tha…

Pretty cool website!! I've launched lots of sites so I'm familiar with most of these tools. But was still able to learn a few things from this.

Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback! And it's great to hear that it's useful not only to the beginners.

Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

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Post by manyxcxi »

Vhaeraun wrote: post #2

Hey everyone, I have created this website after struggling with deploying my website for the first time (which one of the 1000+ hosting companies to chose? How to get a cheap domain? Analytics, monitoring, what other tools I need?) and I thought it might be useful for others. There are no advertisements and it was not sponsored by any company, I did a lot of reading, checked different services and picked up those tha…

I think the site looks great and will be very informative for people with a wide range of experience. As a person with something deployed to literally every provider you've listed (and using most of the ancillary tools as well) I'd say you've done a pretty accurate job describing them.

EDIT: One enhancement I might suggest is that another way of listing hosting, instead of by $/hr or $/mo might be to suggest an instance size with estimated cost based on project type. IE: Wordpress (or generic) CMS hosting, Static website, Bitcoin Mining, etc. For the truly novice they may take the suggestions at the $20/mo price point because that seems affordable but in reality they could be running at free or $5.

You could probably cascade it all the way down. For a static homepage you may just suggest a Free AWS instance, Monitoring, and Version control. For CMS you may suggest the whole stack, etc.

Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

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Post by GordonS »

Vhaeraun wrote: post #2

Hey everyone, I have created this website after struggling with deploying my website for the first time (which one of the 1000+ hosting companies to chose? How to get a cheap domain? Analytics, monitoring, what other tools I need?) and I thought it might be useful for others. There are no advertisements and it was not sponsored by any company, I did a lot of reading, checked different services and picked up those tha…

> There are no advertisements

But some of the links are affiliate links. I don't have a problem with this, but if you're going to make a big deal about not having ads or sponsorship, then I think you should have mentioned this too.

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