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> For a hobby project, what you describe is probably fine. Thanks! Yup, it will be "a hobby project" until, if ever, it gets some users and revenue. Then, ha
by graycat 2y ago
> For a hobby project, what you describe is probably fine.
Thanks! Yup, it will be "a hobby project" until, if ever, it gets some users and revenue. Then, have several servers, some load balancing and redundancy, uninterruptible power with a generator outdoors on a concrete slab, contact Cloudflair or some such and have them do what is needed, etc.
Just looked up SSL, reverse proxies, firewalls, etc. Okay.
- ajross 2y agoYour local site can't implement DDoS protection though, you have to buy that from cloudflare or some other reverse proxy anyway, so cloud is always in your future in some form. Also your local site can't move to Australia or Taiwan or wherever when you realize your user base is more global than you thought. I mean, your intuition is correct that "cloud" is mostly just a bunch of boring, standard computers running boring standard software and there isn't anything they do that you can't. But at the same time, boring standard software is (by definition!) commoditized and if you're spinning up some new and interesting thing, it's only going to be differentiated by the parts that are not boring and standard. So put the boring standard stuff on a credit card and do the interesting stuff instead.
- p_ing 2y agoIf you want an RP, check out HA Proxy. If you're virtualized on your host, 2x HAProxy on top of OpenBSD utilizing carp. It's great fun to set up and run -- and once you have it running, it's stupid stable. Very little maintenance required. You can do this with Linux & keepalived, as well.