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This is a major blow to some of us: the free version of Nightscout has been relying on Heroku and they had an insanely meticulously detailed guide to set the whole thing up. https://nightscout.github.io/nightscout/new_user/ I will need to ask them what's next :(

Of course, I could figure out hosting myself, I do have a server but I don't need any more tamagotchis :(

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One of our users migrated their Nightscout setup to Render recently. Here's the render.yaml (our Infra-as-Code file):

https://github.com/ianchesal/cgm-remote-monitor/blob/render-...

It uses the Dockerfile here:

https://github.com/ianchesal/cgm-remote-monitor/blob/render-...

Does this work with the free tier?

In theory it should. I don’t mind paying the $8/month fee so I do.

I mentioned the guide and my work on the NightScout discord. If there’s interest I could do from scratch instructions for those doing entirely new setups.

Note: I’m the person who did the migration and wrote the notes linked to above.

Update: here are my complete notes on migrating.

https://gist.github.com/ianchesal/5c96c566ab99b60c2c557711fa...

I thought they were in the other comment. The migration is pretty simple now that heroku only hosts the static part of the site and the data is in Atlas.

I'd be surprised if someone hasn't created a Docker file for that, to make self hosting much more streamlined.

There's a Dockerfile but it's not as streamlined as the Heroku app, by far, the README makes this clear.

Check out render.com, it is pretty similar but cheaper and supports more stuff like HTTP/2.

Render vs Heroku Comparison

https://render.com/render-vs-heroku-comparison

The domain name gives me the feeling that this may not be a totally unbiased review.

Oh hey I have a friend who’s child has diabetes and I make a little self-hosting personal computer. I’ll be adding nightscout for him asap - thanks for developing this. Usually self-hostable tools are fun toys - this is a nice change of pace.

I am just a user, not a developer.

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