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That's awesome! It sounds like a great setup for a solo dev wanting to save money, or even for bootstrapping a startup. Thanks for sharing
by mahaganapati 6y ago
That's awesome! It sounds like a great setup for a solo dev wanting to save money, or even for bootstrapping a startup. Thanks for sharing
- sneak 6y agoOn a $300/mo server from Hetzner it can run git, CI, image registry, Mattermost, email, wiki, Discourse, Mumble, and host a bunch of apps (dev, stage, prod) without breaking a sweat. I set up the filesystem so it stores all server state for all apps and stuff in a single directory tree (thanks to Docker you can mount whatever source directories you want into a container at any path). A continuous rsync job in a loop makes sure that that directory tree is always synchronized onto another $20/mo VPS elsewhere. (Failures on that backup machine/script are reported realtime via webhooks back into Mattermost.) It's a really robust system (for a single machine) and thanks to everything being containerized, can be easily replicated from the backup host back onto a new machine in under an hour or so in the event of crash/disaster. For 90% of small businesses, even the $300/mo server is significant overprovisioning/overkill.
- mahaganapati 6y agoThanks for the further detail! I'm favorit-ing your reply for when I'll need to set up something like this soon. I appreciate it!