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Yea it sucks to be forced in any direction, I feel your pain with the complicated-ness of AWS. Alternative to AWS, what sort of alternatives you see emerging? I

by cnuss 5y ago

Yea it sucks to be forced in any direction, I feel your pain with the complicated-ness of AWS. Alternative to AWS, what sort of alternatives you see emerging? In my research I've found a handful of PaaS/Self-Hosted options (Bubbles, Budibase, Mendix, DronaHQ, etc), why not use them? Then people also ask, why not just use Heroku or DigitalOcean? Loaded question, but, asking anyways, what's wrong with AWS? I'm personally attempting to make AWS "easier" and less of a labyrinth with my projects. I'd love to pick your brain if you have a few moments to spare, solo devs like you and me is who I'm trying to cater to.

cutler 5y ago
I've used Linode and Digital Ocean in the past and more recently Hetzner who are ridiculously cheap. I just don't like the idea of Amazon having access to my bank account exposing me to arbitrary charges.
- cnuss 5y ago
  Yea I've used those too, great way to get a quick lil server up and running... Quick question, I've on a AWS bootstrapping/code deployment framework to AWS currently, would you be willing to kick the tires on it a bit? Put briefly, it configures an AWS org and domain, a GitHub Org, provides template repos, and connects all the wires... https://docs.scaffold.ly/tutorials https://docs.scaffold.ly/tutorials It's not the Docker/Kube Kool-aide, but it is the Lambda+Serverless Kool-aide, so AWS charges for idle infra are near-zero. I don't have much context on what you're building for your solo projects, but I'd like to learn more, so feel free to message me directly too, hackernews [at] cnuss dotcom
  - cutler 5y ago
    You're way ahead of me so there's nothing I can teach you. I dipped my toe into AWS a couple of times but decided it was less stress for me and my client to go with a VPS on Hetznder, Linode or Digital Ocean. Most of my work has been typical MVC web apps with Rails, PHP & Perl.

by cnuss 5y ago

cutler 5y ago

I've used Linode and Digital Ocean in the past and more recently Hetzner who are ridiculously cheap. I just don't like the idea of Amazon having access to my bank account exposing me to arbitrary charges.

cnuss 5y ago
Yea I've used those too, great way to get a quick lil server up and running... Quick question, I've on a AWS bootstrapping/code deployment framework to AWS currently, would you be willing to kick the tires on it a bit? Put briefly, it configures an AWS org and domain, a GitHub Org, provides template repos, and connects all the wires... https://docs.scaffold.ly/tutorials https://docs.scaffold.ly/tutorials It's not the Docker/Kube Kool-aide, but it is the Lambda+Serverless Kool-aide, so AWS charges for idle infra are near-zero. I don't have much context on what you're building for your solo projects, but I'd like to learn more, so feel free to message me directly too, hackernews [at] cnuss dotcom
- cutler 5y ago
  You're way ahead of me so there's nothing I can teach you. I dipped my toe into AWS a couple of times but decided it was less stress for me and my client to go with a VPS on Hetznder, Linode or Digital Ocean. Most of my work has been typical MVC web apps with Rails, PHP & Perl.