Ask HN: How do you deploy side projects?

1 pointjhgaylor4 comments

What is your preferred way to deploy software for your side project? What tooling do you lose from the office that you wish you still had?

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I use something like AWS Elastic Beanstalk. FaaS/Heroku-like services tend to be too restrictive and no easier to use.

Why would you lose tooling outside the office? All the tooling you'd need for starting a side project is FOSS, except in unusual cases. The proprietary code at the office would likely be narrowly applicable to scaling their product.

Tooling from the office that I miss is often in the visibility category. Metrics, logs, uptime monitoring/self healing, etc all come for free in my work environment but if I deploy on a digitalocean droplet then I have to figure out a lot of that myself.

I figured that people used to having lots of control might miss not being able to control some low level networking aspect for instance.

All of that stuff is pretty much out-of-the-box with AWS and Azure. I think using DO creates a lot of extra work for a single dev.

Heroku. Very little effort to kick a git repo up to a server - no messing with the system - and they have a free tier to start out on. If a project takes off, flip a switch to start paying for hosting.

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