I really like the Dockerize option, seems pretty straight forward, I wonder how you could manage volumes for DB containers, static assets and how flexible/configurable is the routing/scaling. Unless, as it seems, everything is stateless there. Esteban A. Maringolo On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 8:36 AM Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:
These are some useful inputs - its definitely getting to a place where a little pocket money gives you a real environment to hobby deploy to (even professionally if you are careful i guess).
Sven - presumably this Graviton setup is an EC2 instance - and so you patch your own OS and provide any additional pieces like SSL cert etc right? (which I know you are ace at doing - but I find that that I painfully learn how to do it one month, and then 6 months later have to relearn it all again).
So I'm interested in how reasonable it is to live higher up the food chain - where it seems that a Docker image insulates you (in theory) from a lot of this. Is this true - and are options like dockerize.io (or others that perhaps I am missing) viable options for the time constrained?
(really appreciate all the input in this thread everyone - its very instructive)
Tim
On Tue, 13 Apr 2021, at 7:43 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
Although my main instance is on Digital Ocean, I have a test/play instance on AWS.
This is really hip & cool: it is an AWS Graviton 2 instance (Amazon's own ARM64 CPU, much like Apple Silicon) [ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ ]. I run a small t4g.micro instance, 1GB RAM, 8GB Disk.
Last bill was just USD 2.89 which is crazy cheap for a full month 24/7.
Thanks to the fact that Pharo has a full JIT VM on ARM64, this is crazy fast as well.
I am sure that the reason this is so cheap is the fact that it is super efficient.
You can try this easily for yourself.
On 13 Apr 2021, at 01:57, Esteban Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com> wrote:
What do you use that's so cheap/affordable?
El lun., 12 de abril de 2021 04:48, Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name> escribió:
Am 12.04.2021 um 04:02 schrieb Jeff Gray <jeff@rogerthedog.com>:
Considering easiest and cheapest, there's always self hosting, or are you discounting that idea? Most geeks have a bit of spare hardware laying around and broadband up-speeds aren't too bad. I'm guessing that if we are in the $5 a month ball park then we aren't needing a guaranteed up time.
My cloud instance is 3â¬/month. With an additional 20% amount the instance has a backup. And setting it up is way simpler then getting dynamic DNS updates and all of that configured. Times have changed a bit.
Norbert