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 <emaring...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > What do you use that's so cheap/affordable? > > > > > > El lun., 12 de abril de 2021 04:48, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> > escribió: > > > > > > > > > > Am 12.04.2021 um 04:02 schrieb Jeff Gray <j...@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 > > >
