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Pricing was the "selling" point. People chose Hetzner for their affordable prices compared to anybody else.

But when Hetzner is priced like everyone else, it makes it harder to pick them over the giant AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean etc.

If you want the bells and whistles for the UI, fine, React/Vue/Svelte will help.

If you just want something that achieves the goal, without bringing new skills or dependencies, HTMX is the way.

I've used HTMX with Alpine for a backend application, and they help on making the application more dynamic, along with Tailwindcss a lot of the frontend effort is complete.

Here I am, thinking this was going to be some new service announcement. Clicking on the link, and boom, "Amazing work".

Hi y'all,

I'm building Singlebase.Cloud[1], the next generation BaaS, that will provide a NoSQL Datastore, Authentication, Storage, Search, Image processing, Analytics and more.

All with a friendly API to access and manipulate your data via SQL, GraphQL, REST.

Granted it's not a SQL DB, it provides a SQL interface to query and update your data.

And for GraphQL, your data becomes the schema. There is no need to build a schema, whatever you throw at it, it will return it, if it exists in the response. Making the GraphQL a presentation layer. (I think it's cool)

Let me know what you think of the idea.

[1]https://singlebase.cloud/

If interested in self hosted alternative, which can be hosted on Digital Ocean, Linode, Hetzner, check out Sailor[1]. Sailor[1] is a tiny PaaS to install on your servers/VPS that uses git push to deploy micro-apps, micro-services, sites with SSL, on your own servers or VPS, similar to Heroku

[1] https://github.com/mardix/sailor.

I have a Python and TypeScript background, and I worked with them on a daily basis as a web developer.

Rust will be more familiar and easy on the eyes, as the syntax and concepts are close to friendlier languages.

I just started to get into Rust as well, and so far I'm loving it.

Here are some resources to help throughout the journey:

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust

https://stevedonovan.github.io/rust-gentle-intro/readme.html

https://learning-rust.github.io/docs/a1.why_rust.html

And for Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LetsGetRusty

Good luck and have fun!

Glad Fabric is still around. But Ansible is simpler and the way to really go now.

You focus mainly on the tasks that you need with Ansible instead of the scripts.

Also you have a whole community of Ansible plugins that you can reuse for your own.

Fabric was good at one point, but it missed the migration period to Python 3, hence pushing everyone away.

I'm not even sure Fabric is on the safest Python 3.8 yet.

Fabric was fun though.