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Ask HN: How do you deploy side projects?

by jhgaylor on 4/1/19, 1:32 AM with 4 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?

  • by smt88 on 4/1/19, 4:41 AM

    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.

  • by _bxg1 on 4/1/19, 2:19 AM

    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.