Show HN: NixOS Web Hosting for Everyone

Re:Show HN: NixOS Web Hosting for Everyone by culanuchachamim on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @04:13PM (#33975875)

Whats the added value of NixOS over go strait to Digital Ocean and make your deployments there? Digital Ocean have a very neat and intuitive UI and their CLI is also very straight forward...

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Re:Show HN: NixOS Web Hosting for Everyone by kodefant on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @04:42PM (#33976302)

Hi! This is just my very biased opinion, but in very short terms:

It's quicker, less work and you get servers running on a Nix flakes server config from the start with everything working just by filling out a form.

Especially in the freelance and startup sector, I think this brings value in terms of saving time.

That said, nothing wrong with the approach you are describing.

My target audience is a typical web developer that do not have time or energy to learn everything with NixOS from scratch, but wants to get a working Nix configuration and learn Nix a bit more softly with working code that works from the start.

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Re:Show HN: NixOS Web Hosting for Everyone by spindle on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @06:01PM (#33977487)

IMO those are good ideas. I've set up a few NixOS servers with various general-purpose VPS companies, and there are often minor irritations in getting the OS installed.

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