Ask HN: Where to Host a FastAPI App

Re:Ask HN: Where to Host a FastAPI App by vlod on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:20PM (#37936113)

Probably an unpopular opinion with everyone preferring to hand over money for convenience, but the advantage of learning to be able to do this yourself with nginx will bring a lifetime of self reliance/money saving.

Yes it will take time to learn it, but the ability to spin up a super cheap digital-ocean/linode/hetzner node is a valuable skill to have in your back pocket.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to Host a FastAPI App by dkatz23238 on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:22PM (#37936138)

Great choice. Setting up https from scratch using nginx is something you should definitely do ONCE in your life but then use automated tools such as nginx-proxy/acme-companion.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to Host a FastAPI App by imran-iq on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:26PM (#37936175)

Or you could use caddy from the get go

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Re:Ask HN: Where to Host a FastAPI App by djbusby on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @08:45PM (#37936814)

The Apache stuff I learned like 20 years ago still works - especially for not-huge sites (<600RPS). Point being, once you get this sys-admin task done it's super repeatable (regardless of server). And from one, moving between isn't that hard either. Dozens of personal services can run on a $5/mo VPS. One I have now is nginx to SSL terminate to 8 backend docker-things

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Re:Ask HN: Where to Host a FastAPI App by lsferreira42 on Sunday October 22, 2023 @10:05AM (#37975493)

Still running apache for my side projects too, it's very convenient and easy to deal.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to Host a FastAPI App by zoom6628 on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:33PM (#37938020)

Good pun +1 for that.

I recommend nginx or Apache for the learning exercise. Then go with whatever best suits your use case. My rule is choose that which fits the objective and which doesn't overburden with cognitive load. So I don't use Apache for anything and sometimes just use python's built in. suitability for purpose and usability is what counts for me.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to Host a FastAPI App by tayo42 on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:35PM (#37936245)

idk it costs me like 6 dollars to run a docker container on aws's container service with .5 core. one server by hand isn't to bad, once you want to scale horizontally its going to be tedious, the tools start getting annoyingly complex. locking down everything is a headache, and theres always a nagging feeling that you didn't do it right and one well timed script from getting taken over. you also need to deal with code deploys. just dumping the python code in a docker container and uploading it is easy. updating a hand set up server, again is tedious and error prone.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to Host a FastAPI App by vlod on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:48PM (#37936350)

Sure it's not for everyone. I learnt a lot doing cash strapped startups where there wasn't a devops person. AWS can get expensive, especially when you start using more and more services (lambda,dynamodb,rds,elasticache etc) although it can be easily scaled.

Note, you probably shouldn't do it by hand (setting up your own servers). You'd use Ansible/Terraform.

For those that are interested but not quite ready, here's a great article [0].

[0] https://github.com/fpereiro/backendlore.

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