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coolify
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Standalone Next.js. When serverless is not an option
With a serverful approach, you can avoid these drawbacks, and the main challenge lies in selecting the platform that aligns with your requirements. Options may include AWS, Render, DigitalOcean, and others. While VPS is also an option, it's generally not recommended due to the significant setup and maintenance overhead involved (logging, monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, etc.). However, you can make your life easier by leveraging tools like Coolify that help managing your VPS.
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Let's build a screenshot API
Heroku and similar providers can simplify the server management issues, but you can use something much better that can combine both cost efficiency and ease of deployment—Coolify:
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Quantum alternatives - coolify and meli
3 projects | 12 Mar 2024
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Serverless Horrors
> VPSs being “easy to manage” is a strong option full of assumptions.
There are definitely many footguns with managing a VPS but I think the threshold to get vaguely competent with a VPS is not really that far off with getting familiar with the average cloud platform - which comes with its own dangers, like the near-total inability to put an upward cap on fees that that person found out with Netlify recently.
Having a $5 VPS and knowing it's never going to cost your more than $5 might balance out a lot of things on the other side for a lot of people.
(And, as a bonus, it comes with the benefit of having a better idea of what is going on on the actual computer which is running your code.)
Platforms like https://coolify.io/ (which I have not tried, but looks interesting) seem to give you some of the abstractions that you get in cloud platforms to save you having to mess with too much low level stuff and become an expert in a billion separate systems.
If you have Debian with automatic updates that does most of the heavy lifting for you. The hardest problem I have is resisting the temptation to just install everything, because the cost to do it is capped at my VPS monthly fee.
So yep, it comes with a lot of assumptions. But so does everything!
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Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site
https://coolify.io/ might be worth a look
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The 2024 Web Hosting Report
The modern iteration of these tools has taken the developer experience learnings from the Platform as a Service (PaaS) category, and will bring them to your own VM, giving you your own personal PaaS. Example of this include Dokku, Coolify, Caprover, Cloud66 and many more!
- Coolify – Self-Hostable PaaS
- Open-source and self-hostable Heroku/Netlify alternative
- Best image optimization alternative to Vercel
- Coolify – Self-Hosting with Superpowers
flyctl
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Getting started with Open SaaS
For frontend deployment, I used Netlify (for the generous free package) and the recommended fly.io for server + database (also cheap package).
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Breaking the Myth: Scalable, Multi-Region, Low-Latency App Exists And Will Not Cost You A Kidney.
Create an account on Fly.io.
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How to use fly.io and Tigris to deploy a Next.js app
You can learn more about fly.io and tigris, we will need to create an account on both platforms for this project regardless. Anyway with the theory out of the way let's get started in the next section as we create our accounts and start building the app.
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Set up your own personal browser in the Cloud
Fly.io is a platform that helps you run your apps and databases closer to your users all around the world. It takes your app code, packages it up neatly, and puts it on virtual machines that can be quickly started or stopped. This makes your app faster for users and more reliable. Fly.io is easy to use, works well for small projects or personal apps. It's a great way to make sure your app runs smoothly for people no matter where they are.
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NoSQL Postgres: Add MongoDB compatibility to your Supabase projects with FerretDB
In this post, we'll start from scratch, running FerretDB locally via Docker, trying out the connection with mongosh and the MongoDB Node.js client, and finally deploy FerretDB to Fly.io for a production ready set up.
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Free tools for developers to build their apps
2- fly.io
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Top 5 Ways To Host Your Full-Stack App For Free 🚀✨
Fly is a cloud platform that focuses on global edge computing. Fly specializes in high-performance hosting and provides a global network of edge locations. Fly is known for its scalability and performance optimizations.
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Tech stack used for SaaS
But videototextai.com is built using NextJS + Firebase auth + Firestore and a backend deployed at fly.io . Fly makes it really easy to deploy docker containers and that is IMO the fastest way to develop, you can setup a local setup
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Is it still worth choosing Heroku in 2023?
Alternatives explored: * northflank: While running the wrk test, requests were taking 3-7 seconds. Couldn't repeat Heroku's phenomenon of "400ms-800ms" during such a load test. * fly.io: Reliability: It’s Not Great * render.com: I remember the time when indiehackers.com was down because of an outage on Render, not sure if it's worth trusting.
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what do I do in the meantime?
For personal/portfolio projects fly.io and render.com both have free tiers that support the major backend frameworks and Postgres at the very least (although I think with Render at least the DB expires and has to be reloaded after a certain amount of time, have not personally tried it).
What are some alternatives?
CapRover - Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids
vercel - Develop. Preview. Ship.
Dokku - A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications
supabase - The open source Firebase alternative.
porter - Kubernetes powered PaaS that runs in your own cloud.
s6-overlay - s6 overlay for containers (includes execline, s6-linux-utils & a custom init)
meli - Platform for deploying static sites and frontend applications easily. Automatic SSL, deploy previews, reverse proxy, and more.
podman-compose - a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman
Empire - Empire is a PowerShell and Python post-exploitation agent.
pack - CLI for building apps using Cloud Native Buildpacks
litestream - Streaming replication for SQLite.