4 ms·

Same. Toy project and it’s not worth the risk of using netlify. What’s a good, simple alternative for a VueJS app?

geon 3y ago
Github pages.
victorbjorklund 3y ago
Cloudflare pages is pretty much drop in for netlify. And it has unlimited bandwidth for free (at least in theory. Guess they might call you if your site does 1 petabyte per hour)
lelanthran 3y ago
> What’s a good, simple alternative for a VueJS app? I'm not sure about VueJS specifically, but I run everything I can off a $6/m digital ocean droplet (static sites, web apps, git repos, RDBMS, some other custom apps I've written) and it hasn't broken a sweat yet[1]. My understanding used to be that requests will be dropped if my virtual server can't handle it, and I'll have to transfer 10,000TB to get to a $100,000 bill. In practice, my server will not physically handle the load to serve more than maybe $1000 of data a month; it will fall over before that. In summary, using a VPS is sorta like an instant hard cap. [1] Until I tried using Jenkins. Which crashed constantly because apparently 512GB of RAM is too little for what it does. I'm now in the process of writing my own little CD tool that isn't going to go over 30MB of RAM just to run my deployment scripts.
- icelain 3y ago
  Having a personal VPS is the way. I run a SvelteJS app as well as my personal website, blog and a couple other services on a $6 droplet and it runs great.
  - listenallyall 3y ago
    I agree with both of your philosophies and also run a VPS. However, lots of people would have no idea how to manage a server from scratch or to install a web server, even a static one. Netlify really is pretty amazingly simple for what it offers, which is a lot. And even among those who think they can run a server, many probably have wide open security holes they are oblivious to.
    - lelanthran 3y ago
      > And even among those who think they can run a server, many probably have wide open security holes they are oblivious to. This is the big thing, but I also think that modern out-the-box OSes are pretty damn secure these days. IOW, the amount of knowledge and time needed to maintain my single VPS is a lot less than the knowledge and time you will need to manage your costs using multiple hosted SaaS suppliers for static hosting, web-app hosting, database hosting, repo hosting, etc.

geon 3y ago

Github pages.

Cloudflare pages is pretty much drop in for netlify. And it has unlimited bandwidth for free (at least in theory. Guess they might call you if your site does 1 petabyte per hour)

lelanthran 3y ago

> What’s a good, simple alternative for a VueJS app? I'm not sure about VueJS specifically, but I run everything I can off a $6/m digital ocean droplet (static sites, web apps, git repos, RDBMS, some other custom apps I've written) and it hasn't broken a sweat yet[1]. My understanding used to be that requests will be dropped if my virtual server can't handle it, and I'll have to transfer 10,000TB to get to a $100,000 bill. In practice, my server will not physically handle the load to serve more than maybe $1000 of data a month; it will fall over before that. In summary, using a VPS is sorta like an instant hard cap. [1] Until I tried using Jenkins. Which crashed constantly because apparently 512GB of RAM is too little for what it does. I'm now in the process of writing my own little CD tool that isn't going to go over 30MB of RAM just to run my deployment scripts.

icelain 3y ago
Having a personal VPS is the way. I run a SvelteJS app as well as my personal website, blog and a couple other services on a $6 droplet and it runs great.
- listenallyall 3y ago
  I agree with both of your philosophies and also run a VPS. However, lots of people would have no idea how to manage a server from scratch or to install a web server, even a static one. Netlify really is pretty amazingly simple for what it offers, which is a lot. And even among those who think they can run a server, many probably have wide open security holes they are oblivious to.
  - lelanthran 3y ago
    > And even among those who think they can run a server, many probably have wide open security holes they are oblivious to. This is the big thing, but I also think that modern out-the-box OSes are pretty damn secure these days. IOW, the amount of knowledge and time needed to maintain my single VPS is a lot less than the knowledge and time you will need to manage your costs using multiple hosted SaaS suppliers for static hosting, web-app hosting, database hosting, repo hosting, etc.