How makers stay productive

I'm hosting my APIs and database on a DigitalOcean droplet and just recently migrated my front-end apps to Vercel.

I think I will move the database to a managed container in DigitalOcean next. But I'm looking into more options. Happy to hear some ideas on this 😀

I'm using Netlify to host my static site and Vercel for my app dashboard.

For the backend API, I use DigitalOcean droplet with bi-hourly database backups to Scaleway Object Store.

I usually start with Heroku because it's so easy. I'll cluster a few apps on the same server and share a worker for all-in maybe $15/mo.

Some projects have more specific needs so I'll usually migrate to AWS and use EC2, RDS, CloudFormation, etc over there. Bill isn't more than $30/mo right now.

It depends on the complexity of the project, but most of my stuff lives on AWS. If it's a Next.js project I'm using Vercel.

I host everything on Primcloud, costs me nothing. ;)

Netlify or Firebase Hosting for static frontend hosting, Firebase/Cloud Functions for simple backend logic, and Heroku/App Engine for more complex backend stuff. Love the user experience with Heroku, plus it offers a free student plan with GitHub education (https://www.heroku.com/github-students). All of these services offer a very generous free quota so you don't have to pay anything when starting out!

All my development servers are on the digital ocean/up cloud and production servers on AWS.

I'm on a VPS S SSD from contabo. It's a couple of bucks more expensive than something like DO, but heck, the resources are there to prove why! 🤑

For 5 EUR, I get 8 GB RAM and four cores - don't really remember which CPU. Never had any issues! 🥲

It's a really ugly panel, but you get what you pay for. That's what I enjoy 🥳

Fun fact: We're on two VPS M SSD with k8s on reppy.dk

PS. For funzies I also use k8s along with loft.

I'm using a2hosting which is expiring early next year. So moving all the new sites to Netlify.

I have built https://appliku.com/ to host my python/node apps. The reason was simple: Heroku is too expensive. And I generally don't believe in the model when tier-2 cloud provider reselling resources. This comes with the opposite incentives. The more you use the more they earn.

Appliku's model is a fixed monthly fee for the number of servers you manage. For cloud resources, you pay directly to the cloud provider.

For frontend I use Netlify and I don't pay them anything.

I have hosted on a mix of AWS, Linode, Vultr, DigitalOcean in the last 8 years or so. I am moving to Hetzner gradually and looking for edge functions on CloudFlare or other providers. This fits my mental model for my products. For clients I still stick to AWS/DO.