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So the solution here was mostly (entirely?) Netlify? Netlify is great (happy user here), but I was hoping to see the author's "suite" of solutions. Surprised n

So the solution here was mostly (entirely?) Netlify? Netlify is great (happy user here), but I was hoping to see the author's "suite" of solutions. Surprised not to see CockroachDB, Supabase, Firebase, NextAuth and the like. You can get pretty far these days on a free plan even if you need auth and a real database.

jaza 5y ago
Author here. For all my personal and small-client sites that previously had auth and a database, and that I previously hosted on my VPS, I realised that, no, none of them really do need auth or a database. An SSG (Hugo or Eleventy) and a simple host (mainly Netlify) will do the job. If I need auth and a real database, I'd probably still go with a more traditional architecture (Python + PostgreSQL is my go-to). Hosted either on a VPS, if I want to keep it cheap and simple, or on ECS / RDS (or non-AWS equivalent), if I want more scalability and resilience (and have the budget for it). But thanks for your suggestion, I'll mull over it.