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I can't tell if this is parody or not, hosting on vercel is the easiest fastest way to prod I can think of, AWS if fairly complicated if you're not used to it b

by Trufa 4y ago

I can't tell if this is parody or not, hosting on vercel is the easiest fastest way to prod I can think of, AWS if fairly complicated if you're not used to it but honestly if you're just setting up and DB and getting a connection string is very easy. Also PHP sucks. If this is parody, I apologize.

School-Cotton 4y ago
I don’t think it’s parody. I’ve never heard of vercel. If I wanted to build this, I’d: (1) turn on an ec2 host (2) write a Python script to serve the image (degrading it on every call) (3) configure nginx to ffi to the script.
- sillysaurusx 4y ago
  Meanwhile vercel is literally “now”. Like all you need to do is cd to the directory and type “now” and press enter. https://docs.ycombinator.lol https://docs.ycombinator.lol has been running for years without fail. It’ll probably shut off someday and be lost to history, but I’d bet on it lasting a lot longer than that ec2 instance. Free, too.
  - smaudet 4y ago
    I'm not sure how you are getting past the writing a python script part... Vercel looks to be some service that deploys pre-built apps (geared towards nodejs/react, hard pass).
    - eurasiantiger 4y ago
      Your hate towards nodejs/react is making you blind to opportunities.
      - smaudet 4y ago
        I used nodejs for over five years. It is not blindness...
        eurasiantiger 4y ago
        When?
smaudet 4y ago
I don't think this is a parody either, this is like saying the easiest way to format text is to use Word, then poo-ing html... Maybe to someone who only knows "modern web dev" it seems like a parody, most people don't start with "let's learn 10 overcomplex frameworks and use a template generator which only takes one step". For generating horrible bloated apps as fast as possible you may have something "easy", I will probably never use vercel, I'm much more likely to write a script and expose it on a port somewhere. Unless I've misgauged vercel and you can feed it a python script or something...

by Trufa 4y ago

School-Cotton 4y ago

I don’t think it’s parody. I’ve never heard of vercel. If I wanted to build this, I’d: (1) turn on an ec2 host (2) write a Python script to serve the image (degrading it on every call) (3) configure nginx to ffi to the script.

sillysaurusx 4y ago
Meanwhile vercel is literally “now”. Like all you need to do is cd to the directory and type “now” and press enter. https://docs.ycombinator.lol https://docs.ycombinator.lol has been running for years without fail. It’ll probably shut off someday and be lost to history, but I’d bet on it lasting a lot longer than that ec2 instance. Free, too.
- smaudet 4y ago
  I'm not sure how you are getting past the writing a python script part... Vercel looks to be some service that deploys pre-built apps (geared towards nodejs/react, hard pass).
  - eurasiantiger 4y ago
    Your hate towards nodejs/react is making you blind to opportunities.
    - smaudet 4y ago
      I used nodejs for over five years. It is not blindness...
      - eurasiantiger 4y ago
        When?

smaudet 4y ago

I don't think this is a parody either, this is like saying the easiest way to format text is to use Word, then poo-ing html... Maybe to someone who only knows "modern web dev" it seems like a parody, most people don't start with "let's learn 10 overcomplex frameworks and use a template generator which only takes one step". For generating horrible bloated apps as fast as possible you may have something "easy", I will probably never use vercel, I'm much more likely to write a script and expose it on a port somewhere. Unless I've misgauged vercel and you can feed it a python script or something...