Vercel is down too.
My sites run on Cloudflare and Vercel, and I can't even log in to those right now.
I'm curious — what does Hacker News run on? It seems impervious to any kind of downtime...
My sites run on Cloudflare and Vercel, and I can't even log in to those right now.
I'm curious — what does Hacker News run on? It seems impervious to any kind of downtime...
On a dirty, disgusting dedicated server.
I'm adding "reliable" into that mix. Too bad they're too expensive and hard to setup for side projects, but HN is probably one of the most stable site I frequently visit, and I don't even think about it.
Hard to setup is relative. It all depends on what you're doing and how much reliability you need. For a side project or a dev server you can just start with Debian, stick to packaged software (most language runtimes and services such as Postgres or Redis are available) as much as possible and call it a day. You can even enable auto-updates on such a stable distro.
The knowledge you'll gain by dealing with bare-metal is also going to be useful in the cloud even in container environments.
I mean they're not particularly. Unless the use is extremely minimal, it'll always be cheaper to buy a small server even for a side project.
I use cloud VMs for projects that can live on $5/mo VMs because at that usage rate I'll never break even to buy a machine.
But as soon as your AWS bill is even like $50/mo, worth to start looking at alternatives.
Pobody's nerfect.