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by rozenmd 4y ago
As a solo founder myself, yes. If you ask for a feature, they tend to actually go out of their way to help, instead of having it rot on the backlog for a decade.
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OnlineOrNot: Uptime monitor and status page not powered by GitHub(onlineornot.com)
1 points by rozenmd 4y ago|0 comments
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by rozenmd 4y ago
Yeah that's pretty wild. I managed to fit my entire serverless stack (roughly 1.2m checks per week) into 2x 256MB VMs and 1x 512MB VM, you could run a monster server on that.
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by rozenmd 4y ago
As someone that runs an uptime monitoring service business - you run several replicas of your stack (necessary to stay up during huge outages anyway), and monitor yourself. Monitoring from another vendor helps too.
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by rozenmd 4y ago
I built my own version entirely within AWS Lambda's free tier, works well until you're into "continuously running serverless" territory - at that point any random VM would be significantly cheaper.
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by rozenmd 4y ago
In case you're curious, I wrote about my experience here: https://onlineornot.com/on-moving-million-uptime-checks-onto...
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by rozenmd 4y ago
Just wanted to share this article as I think the advent of easy/cheap firecracker VMs is going to change how folks test new ideas on the Internet.
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On moving over a million uptime checks per week onto Fly.io(onlineornot.com)
2 points by rozenmd 4y ago|1 comments
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by rozenmd 4y ago
Self healing VMs - look into fly.io, they just restart when out of memory etc took about a day to rewrite and a week of 30 mins per day to figure out how to optimise my code for self healing. knowing my bill is capped by number of VMs * mem
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by rozenmd 4y ago
Definitely - with startups offering 3x free firecracker VMs (of 256MB RAM) these days, there's almost no reason to start ideas with serverless.
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by rozenmd 4y ago
I run 1.2 million uptime checks per week, my total AWS bill was $150/mo before I migrated to permanently running VMs - it's definitely doable without trying too hard.
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Ask HN: What does your team use for uptime monitoring?
1 points by rozenmd 4y ago|1 comments
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by rozenmd 4y ago
Came here to recommend this one too, great book.
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by rozenmd 4y ago
This might be of interest: https://bloodyhealth.gitlab.io/
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by rozenmd 4y ago
I've spent the last four years now trying to start a business on the Internet (working on ideas roughly two hours per day before work). Each project had valuable lessons (both business and code/architecture) that carried over into
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by rozenmd 4y ago
Write a new technical article each week on your blog. Get feedback (by sharing them). You'll improve over time.
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by rozenmd 4y ago
I believe the existing term of art is "bootstrapped business"
888.
by rozenmd 4y ago
Sure can, many of us avoid jobs in social media, ads and lending for that reason
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Writing Your First Runbooks(onlineornot.com)
1 points by rozenmd 4y ago|0 comments
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Guidelines for Writing Better Runbooks(onlineornot.com)
1 points by rozenmd 4y ago|0 comments
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by rozenmd 4y ago
You could also just ask HN.
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Guidelines for Writing Better Runbooks(onlineornot.com)
5 points by rozenmd 4y ago|0 comments
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by rozenmd 4y ago
They're using a 3rd party status page, it's a fancy CMS at best.
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by rozenmd 4y ago
Yeah I'm starting to realise this myself having moved from Australia to France myself. Big plusses but life kinda goes on without you back home, and you kinda miss it.
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by rozenmd 4y ago
> In all fairness, I've never actually tried it. That's what you're missing. Try it.
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by rozenmd 4y ago
Watch your memory pressure in Activity Monitor. Mine's typically orange/green during web dev and works fine, but if I open too many electron apps it'll go red and the laptop grinds to a halt.
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by rozenmd 4y ago
I started on the same path a few years ago, here's how my latest attempt is going: https://onlineornot.com/building-saas-in-one-week-how-built-... and here are breakdowns by year: year 1: https://maxrozen.co
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by rozenmd 4y ago
https://maxrozen.com/ I used to share weekly tips about React, these days I post occasional updates about the SaaS I operate. Built with Vercel's Next.js TypeScript blog example: https://github.com/verc
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by rozenmd 4y ago
I wake up an hour earlier and code/handle my side-projects in the two hours before work. In the last year and a half it's allowed me to build a whole SaaS (and business around it), a couple of books, and dozens of blog posts.
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by rozenmd 4y ago
For web dev the base model (8GB RAM) MacBook Air M1 is a viable dev machine - makes the maxed out i7 MacBook Pro I had from work feel sluggish in comparison.

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