Re:Ask HN: How a non dev ops host things to the world?
by leros on Friday March 10, 2023 @08:43PM
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I'm a big fan of services like Heroku and Netlify.
Heroku is basically "here is a repository with my server app, run it".
Netlfiy is basically "here is a repository with my web app, host it".
I really don't have to think about much. Heroku is pretty cheap and Netlify is free for small sites. To me it's a no brainer as it saves me a ton of time.
If a project every blows up, I can pay more money to scale these solutions up. And since my apps are still simple (i.e. no cloud vendor specific solutions), it's still easy to move my app somewhere else or redesign it with a new architecture if needed.
(There are numerous alternatives to both Heroku and Netlify).
Heroku is basically "here is a repository with my server app, run it".
Netlfiy is basically "here is a repository with my web app, host it".
I really don't have to think about much. Heroku is pretty cheap and Netlify is free for small sites. To me it's a no brainer as it saves me a ton of time.
If a project every blows up, I can pay more money to scale these solutions up. And since my apps are still simple (i.e. no cloud vendor specific solutions), it's still easy to move my app somewhere else or redesign it with a new architecture if needed. (There are numerous alternatives to both Heroku and Netlify).