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> escribi��:
> >
> >
> > > 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 3���/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
>