Maarius

I am looking to host a relatively simple Rails API. From a technical side the complexity is quite low but availability is crucial and should hopefully be 99.99% or better.

To keep the DevOps overhead low I am thinking about using DigitalOcean.

The current idea is

* Use the "App Platform" with multiple app instances that are load balanced through DO itself (unfortunately only within same region)

* Use managed Postres with multiple standby nodes (allows for "immediate automatic failover")

* Optionally replicate the app servers in a different region and use an external load balancer to fail over between regions (not possible within the App Platform itself)

Do you have any other / better ideas for a rather straightforward setup? I am trying to avoid AWS but am not completely opposed.

I am looking for a portal / community where people post and discuss startup ideas. Of course I know about HN, Quora etc. but there is too much noise. What I would really like should be something like:

- everyone can submit ideas, put them in categories, assign tags - others can upvote / downvote ideas - people discuss how the first steps to executing it could work - you would get immediate feedback and first beta users

Does anything like this exist?