Ask HN: How do you deploy side projects?

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by jhgaylor • 7 years ago

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What is your preferred way to deploy software for your side project? What tooling do you lose from the office that you wish you still had?

_bxg1• 7 years ago

Heroku. Very little effort to kick a git repo up to a server - no messing with the system - and they have a free tier to start out on. If a project takes off, flip a switch to start paying for hosting.

smt882• 7 years ago

I use something like AWS Elastic Beanstalk. FaaS/Heroku-like services tend to be too restrictive and no easier to use.

Why would you lose tooling outside the office? All the tooling you'd need for starting a side project is FOSS, except in unusual cases. The proprietary code at the office would likely be narrowly applicable to scaling their product.

jhgaylor• 7 years ago

Tooling from the office that I miss is often in the visibility category. Metrics, logs, uptime monitoring/self healing, etc all come for free in my work environment but if I deploy on a digitalocean droplet then I have to figure out a lot of that myself.

I figured that people used to having lots of control might miss not being able to control some low level networking aspect for instance.

smt882• 7 years ago

All of that stuff is pretty much out-of-the-box with AWS and Azure. I think using DO creates a lot of extra work for a single dev.

Ask HN: How do you deploy side projects?

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