Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by anyfactor on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:26PM
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Truly incredible. Thank you very much sharing.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by nerdyadventurer on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:43AM
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Can you please say the services you use for DNS, Docker image storage?
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by lightning19 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:41PM
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DNS - I use GCP as the domain was purchased with domains.google because I get free email addresses which I can receive and reply to from my personal gmail (e.g. [email protected]). I'm not 100% sure if this setup will work with another DNS provider.
Docker Image - Since I'm running this most of the operation on AWS I use ECR
I set things up again on the new VM manually. I have a runbook for it, usually takes me 30 mins or less.
To not have any downtime I keep the old VM up and attach a new public IP to the new VM. I then update the DNS records and after a while when the new IP is mapped to my domain I then stop the old VM.
Costs:
Managed Mongodb cluster: $9 but I share it between multiple side projects so let's say $3
API health checks - free! I use digital ocean and fresh ping
Service Desk - free! I use Jira
DNS: Usually $0.3
DB backups: within the free tier on both cloud providers. I have it set to only keep the last x backups so this should always be free
Cron job to run the backup: I have a serverless function for this, still within the free tier
SSL cert - free because I use let's encrypt
Docker image storage costs: <$1
Total ~$9.5