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Re:Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:58PM (#48544055)
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.

Re:I Hate Tailwind and Love Bootstrap on Friday April 10, 2026 @11:20PM (#47727003)
DaisyUI[0] is the Bootstrap on Tailwind.

Bootstrap makes everything looks the same. With Tailwind, most of the times and besides the colors, you have to look in the code to know it's Tailwind.

[0]https://daisyui.com/

Re:Is Htmx Gaining in Popularity? on Saturday July 08, 2023 @09:51PM (#36650723)
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.

Technical Solo Founder Seeking Sales/Marketing Co-Founder

Hi y'all,I'm a technical Founder building https://singlebase.cloud . It's an alternative to Firebase and Supabase.I'm seeking a Sales/Marketing/Product Co-Founder.About the product: It's Backend as a service, similar to Firebase and Supabase.The core products (Datastore, Auth, Storage, Images, Search) are completed including the console/admin panel.The documentation site (...

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Re:Vercel Service Markup on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:03PM (#35797304)
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/

Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:47PM (#34799857)
Checkout Hetzner. You will love their infrastructure. You will love their price.
Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:46PM (#34799849)
Goodbye Linode. They should have at least left the name. We know business is business, but business is business, therefor Goodbye Linode. Goodbye!
Loving it. I'm interested in milli-py.

What can be a cool feature, it's auto backup to S3, or load from S3.

Re:Supabase Vault is now in Beta on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:28PM (#34017408)
It's Christmas at Supabase. These folks be dropping features like gifts every day.

Good job!

Re:User IDs probably shouldn't be passed around as ints on Sunday December 04, 2022 @01:51AM (#33851278)
While UUID4 can be good for UserID. Sometimes, to avoid having a second index in the DB, ULID is another good option; As not only it supports some of the features of UUID4 of uniqueness, it is also sortable.
Re:Heroku alternatives with a free tier listed in a GitHub repo on Saturday October 22, 2022 @04:14PM (#33301777)
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.

Re:Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go? on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @03:34AM (#33077499)
For another 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

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

Re:Ask HN: Should I learn Rust or Go? on Monday July 04, 2022 @12:32PM (#31978902)
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!

Re:40% of Google users now connect via IPv6 on Sunday July 03, 2022 @02:40PM (#31969936)
:)
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.

(Shameless plug)

Here's a tiny PAAS that can be used if Caddy is too complex.

https://github.com/mardix/sailor

Sailor 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.

Re:DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing on Monday May 16, 2022 @11:07AM (#31398526)
Hetzner is a very good alternative. They now have VPS in Virginia/USA.
Re:Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic on Sunday May 15, 2022 @07:20PM (#31392135)
Heroku is getting hammered like crazy this week on HN
Re:Heroku: Core Impact on Sunday May 15, 2022 @07:20PM (#31392134)
Heroku is getting hammered like crazy on HN this week
Re:Dokku – Free Heroku Alternative on Saturday May 14, 2022 @01:16PM (#31380111)
Similar to Heroku deploy flow, checkout Sailor, 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.

https://github.com/mardix/sailor

That would be it. People would flood them.
Re:Ask HN: Cheaper Heroku alternatives for Rails apps? on Monday March 21, 2022 @06:29PM (#30760577)
If you want to do it yourself, checkout Sailor[0].

Sailor 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

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

Re:Crude oil market opens at $125 on Monday March 07, 2022 @12:41AM (#30584558)
Greatest time to be a walker.
There is also Litedom (which I created) that's in the same ballpark:

https://github.com/mardix/litedom

Re:Heroku-style deployments with Docker and Git tags on Sunday April 25, 2021 @10:36PM (#26938691)
For a simpler option without Docker, but still with GIT Heroku-style, check out Polybox[0].

Polybox[0] is an itty-bitty PaaS that uses git push to deploy micro-services and websites on your own servers.

[0]https://github.com/mardix/polybox

Re:Great tits change their traditions for the better on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @09:45PM (#26719650)
Came here for the wrong reason. Oh well! I Learned something new.
Thank you very much. Polybox is a fork of your great work Piku (credited in the readme).

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