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0 pointsJanSt3y ago0 comments

Why do you want so self manage? Saving a few bucks is probably not worth the hassle. I pretty much spend zero time on infra

* push to deploy

* auto-restart

* managed db

* easy scaling

* s3 object storage

* don‘t spend time on updates

* web ui (monitoring, basic logging, configuration, ..)

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I go the other way. No docker, just bare metal server with 4 cores and it can handle a shitton of traffic.

- Debian OS, fully locked down (all ports closed except SSH, with limiter).

- SSH + rsync to deploy app. I don't have a risk factor of managing dependencies between dev and prod, so I eliminated docker.

- SQLite db that gets thrown on S3 every hour using a python script. I don't want streaming anything. Just hourly backups is good enough.

- Cloudflare tunnel to connect to outside world and serve requests.

It is fast, cheap and requires not much "infra" knowledge. Of course this is for solo devs and small companies.

really just for my own infra-management education, not any functional reason

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