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Having managed a VPS yourself is very useful (fun, I think, and definitely educational), and takes you a long way in realizing more of what it takes to put up a
by hardwaresofton 12y ago
Having managed a VPS yourself is very useful (fun, I think, and definitely educational), and takes you a long way in realizing more of what it takes to put up a website, and makes you a better developer I think.
It's not that the web apps CAN'T be run on regular hosting, but when you try and do more and more ambitious things with the sites you build, you will need/want the control (even if you scale back later when you realize you don't need it).
For example, if you wanted to try using some new database or ORM to build a project, your hosted option might not support it (yet).
- comatory 12y agoOn that note I'm going to ask specific question. What kind of VPS set-up would I need to comfortably run 3-4 very small websites and still have a little headroom for experimenting with web apps etc.? The reason I'm asking is I'm thinking of getting rid of web hosting and put everything on VPS.
- hardwaresofton 12y agohey sorry for super late response - I use INIZ.com + Gandi for DNS. So basically, I point multiple DNS entries to the same server, and setup NGINX accordingly to reverse proxy each different site to a different upstream app