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Ask HN: Cost effective platform for React / Gatsby?

by WhiteOwlEd on 11/2/22, 3:59 PM with 1 comments

I feel like my site (https://whiteowleducation.com ) is starting to outgrow Netlify. The site has interactive web pages with Mapbox and video that is coming from Cloudflare, and I am starting to go through bandwidth fast.

I am looking for some sort of hosting solution that can host not only the static site stuff that I have today (Gatsby, React), but that will allow me to expand to building out forums , responses to blog posts, or long term some type of ElasticSearch that will allow people who visit the site to search for appropriate blog posts.

The next step seems like going with Heroku, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud or AWS. If I go with Google or AWS, seems like process is to place my web app in a Docker container and deploy that to machines that run 24/27.

I am on a razor thin budget, and I need budget friendly advice on what a deployment roadmap would look like. Thanks in advance.

  • by x86hacker1010 on 11/3/22, 4:12 AM

    I think your solution is easy to solve with Cloudflare.

    Pages is free and good for static site hosting. You can bind functions to Cloudflare Workers for more dynamic API type stuff. Shortly you’ll see access to D1 for their database solution using sqlite, etc.

    AWS et al are just so pricey and I feel people jump to those solutions too quick. If you need a VPS, I’ve enjoyed Hetzner. I run docker containers on it with some pretty beefy software for cheap. Where are you hosting video?