Comment by l5870uoo9y
12 hours ago
I migrated the landing pages for my app[1] from Nextjs to Astrojs mainly because I was paying Vercel $20 per month for serving static pages(it’s 4 times more than I pay Railway for the Postgres database for the actual app and also 4 times more than I pay Cloudflare for hosting all my apps). I used AI for migrating and it took a few days only as the existing repo was used as “instructions” and it included some upgrades and improvements here and there.
Why is everyone so afraid to get a $5/mo Ubuntu/Debian VPS, install nginx and call it a day?
Then you can even run multiple projects off the same server.
It means you take responsibility of maintaining the server forever, i.e. dealing with TLS certificates, SSH keys, security updates, OS/package updates, monitoring, reboots when stuck, redeploy when VPS retired, etc. Usually things work fine for a year or two and then stuff starts to get old and need attention and eat your time.
Oh no! Issuing SSL certificates! The horror!
I really doubt that people who can’t install an ssh key should be able to practice software engineering. Sometimes, I think that software engineering should be a protected profession like other types of engineering. At least it will filter out the people who can’t keep their OS up to date.
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just ask claude to do all that :), he is excellent and installing & managing new servers and making sure all security patches are updated. Just be careful if its a high risk project.
certbot and ssh keys are things you set up once
I haven't rebooted my DO droplets in something like 5 years. I don't monitor anything. None of them have been "retired".
vs. trusting someone else to do all that for you, and do you then verify that it gets done properly?
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This is extremely easy with tools like dokploy tho... I use dokploy locally to manage all my VPSs + home server. Truly good stuff and I don't believe your quip at the end, it feels like poisoning the open source waters for consolidated anti democratic cloud platforms.
It's way way way way easier managing a basic VPS that can be highly performant for your needs. If this was 2010, I'd agree with you but tooling and practices have gotten so much better over the last decade (especially the last 5 years).
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Or a homelab using Proxmox or Unraid.
No click-ops that way.
I just did this over at Hetzner and Claude admins it for me so I don't need to learn the CLI or anything, describe the proxying I want, and it setups up a bunch of small side project pages for me.
How do you use Claude to admin it? Does Claude SSH into the server and do everything or just write bash scripts?
For me I always default to UpCloud, great team and great services. From Finland!
this is neat