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What I really wish for is a simple way of running docker containers (like AWS Fargate, or at least ECS), because I want to run docker containers across multiple

What I really wish for is a simple way of running docker containers (like AWS Fargate, or at least ECS), because I want to run docker containers across multiple droplets, but I don't want the full complexity of Kubernetes. Also something akin to auto-scaling groups. If DO had those, I'd use it a whole lot more than I do (currently I only spend use approx. $140/month on DO).

mattste 7y ago
I just led a migration for my small team from Zeit Now to Render (https://render.com/ https://render.com/). It has filled this need pretty well. There are some features that I wish existed but overall the simplicity has been great for our use case. They do not have auto-scaling but it's planned (https://feedback.render.com/features/p/autoscaling https://feedback.render.com/features/p/autoscaling).
- anurag 7y ago
  (Render founder) Glad to hear it, and I hope you've posted your feature requests on https://feedback.render.com https://feedback.render.com. We're investing heavily in growing the team and putting a strong engineering foundation in place so we can keep adding new features quickly and reliably.
- Kkoala 7y ago
  How is Render different from Heroku? It seems like a slightly more expensive than Heroku with slightly fewer features?
  - anurag 7y ago
    Render is more flexible than Heroku: you can host apps that rely on disks (like Elasticsearch and MySQL), private services, cron jobs, and of course free static sites. You also get automatic zero downtime deploys, health checks and small but handy features like HTTP/2 and automatic HTTP->HTTPS redirects. It's considerably less expensive as your application scales: a webapp that needs 3GB RAM costs $50/month on Render; on Heroku you'll pay $250/month for 2.5GB RAM, and $500/month for the next tier (14GB RAM). And you get free chat support.
markwahl 7y ago
Repobus (https://www.repobus.com/ https://www.repobus.com/) yet to be launched will provide this functionality in DO or any other cloud. Simply add your nodes and that is it. It is a Heroku like platform on your VPS. Launching sometime in April.
dkersten 7y ago
Another thing I would love that I forgot to mention is hosted Kafka (or even hosted rabbitmq or similar), as I find them a pain to manage myself.
Legogris 7y ago
Have you checked out Hashicorp's Nomad?
- dkersten 7y ago
  Yeah, I quite like the look of it. I’m still scared of actually running it myself though since the master node requirements are a few servers. I guess I need to look into it again.
  - Legogris 7y ago
    Their documented "minimum requirements" are quite ridiculous TBH. I mean, officially Vault requires 6 Consul servers (dedicated to Vault, mind you) to be considered ready for production. I doubt most companies using Vault with Consul follows this. You I think you could be fine with 3 of the smallest machine types.
    - dkersten 7y ago
      That’s basically what put me off trying nomad. Nit just the minimum number, but also their stated hardware requirements. From their documentation: Nomad servers may need to be run on large machine instances. We suggest having between 4-8+ cores, 16-32 GB+ of memory, 40-80 GB+ of fast disk and significant network bandwidth Basically the cost if the Nomad masters would be much greater than the cost of what would run my actual applications. That’s a non-starter for me. > You I think you could be fine with 3 of the smallest machine types. Maybe, but if that’s their official stance, it would make me very nervous to run a production system with lower spec machines.
      - PedroBatista 7y ago
        They ( and many others ) better pray central banks keep printing money by the ton, because once the crunch comes these IT SUVs will be the first to go.
      - multani 7y ago
        It really depends on how what your workload is though. We have been running between 100 and 200 Jobs in Nomad, with the quantity of clients doubling then shrinking every day using 3 × t3.micro for the servers since years. We have yet to see our Nomad usage increase enough to get rid of these machines.
bouk 7y ago
We're working on it.
- dkersten 7y ago
  What about hosted kafka or hosted message queues? Are there any plans (even tentative) in that regards? That’s the other missing piece that would make a huge difference to me. One final question: will spaces support proper static site hosting? There was a ticket about it stating it was planned for Q3 or Q4 last year. but there was no follow up.

mattste 7y ago

I just led a migration for my small team from Zeit Now to Render (https://render.com/ https://render.com/). It has filled this need pretty well. There are some features that I wish existed but overall the simplicity has been great for our use case. They do not have auto-scaling but it's planned (https://feedback.render.com/features/p/autoscaling https://feedback.render.com/features/p/autoscaling).

anurag 7y ago
(Render founder) Glad to hear it, and I hope you've posted your feature requests on https://feedback.render.com https://feedback.render.com. We're investing heavily in growing the team and putting a strong engineering foundation in place so we can keep adding new features quickly and reliably.
Kkoala 7y ago
How is Render different from Heroku? It seems like a slightly more expensive than Heroku with slightly fewer features?
- anurag 7y ago
  Render is more flexible than Heroku: you can host apps that rely on disks (like Elasticsearch and MySQL), private services, cron jobs, and of course free static sites. You also get automatic zero downtime deploys, health checks and small but handy features like HTTP/2 and automatic HTTP->HTTPS redirects. It's considerably less expensive as your application scales: a webapp that needs 3GB RAM costs $50/month on Render; on Heroku you'll pay $250/month for 2.5GB RAM, and $500/month for the next tier (14GB RAM). And you get free chat support.

markwahl 7y ago

Repobus (https://www.repobus.com/ https://www.repobus.com/) yet to be launched will provide this functionality in DO or any other cloud. Simply add your nodes and that is it. It is a Heroku like platform on your VPS. Launching sometime in April.

dkersten 7y ago

Another thing I would love that I forgot to mention is hosted Kafka (or even hosted rabbitmq or similar), as I find them a pain to manage myself.

Legogris 7y ago

Have you checked out Hashicorp's Nomad?

dkersten 7y ago
Yeah, I quite like the look of it. I’m still scared of actually running it myself though since the master node requirements are a few servers. I guess I need to look into it again.
- Legogris 7y ago
  Their documented "minimum requirements" are quite ridiculous TBH. I mean, officially Vault requires 6 Consul servers (dedicated to Vault, mind you) to be considered ready for production. I doubt most companies using Vault with Consul follows this. You I think you could be fine with 3 of the smallest machine types.
  - dkersten 7y ago
    That’s basically what put me off trying nomad. Nit just the minimum number, but also their stated hardware requirements. From their documentation: Nomad servers may need to be run on large machine instances. We suggest having between 4-8+ cores, 16-32 GB+ of memory, 40-80 GB+ of fast disk and significant network bandwidth Basically the cost if the Nomad masters would be much greater than the cost of what would run my actual applications. That’s a non-starter for me. > You I think you could be fine with 3 of the smallest machine types. Maybe, but if that’s their official stance, it would make me very nervous to run a production system with lower spec machines.
    - PedroBatista 7y ago
      They ( and many others ) better pray central banks keep printing money by the ton, because once the crunch comes these IT SUVs will be the first to go.
    - multani 7y ago
      It really depends on how what your workload is though. We have been running between 100 and 200 Jobs in Nomad, with the quantity of clients doubling then shrinking every day using 3 × t3.micro for the servers since years. We have yet to see our Nomad usage increase enough to get rid of these machines.

bouk 7y ago

We're working on it.

dkersten 7y ago
What about hosted kafka or hosted message queues? Are there any plans (even tentative) in that regards? That’s the other missing piece that would make a huge difference to me. One final question: will spaces support proper static site hosting? There was a ticket about it stating it was planned for Q3 or Q4 last year. but there was no follow up.