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Comment by eric_cc

1 year ago

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

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lelanthran  1 year 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  1 year 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  1 year 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.

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victorbjorklund  1 year 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)