Running JAM stack apps on hosted VPS?
I've been running my JAM stack Node apps on a CPanel VPS for a few years now and for the most part it's been good. Are there others doing the same or does everyone go for the big cloud providers at this point?
My primary motivation has been about minimizing cost and having full control in an environment where I can do what I like and not get sucked into services that tie me to a single provider.
I don't typically have load issues, but that being said, I can scale up the VPS to carry things quite as ways if I need to.
I'm interested to hear what everyone else is doing!
I would take a look at render.com, it is containers not vps, but does provide the right abstraction IMO between the two and continuous delivery is awesome!
This does look like an interesting app hosting solution and feels like the Digitalocean App Platform. If these platforms could offer static IPs, connecting to a secured remote database would be icing on the cake!
Yeah, I guess that is the gap between DIY and Service, k8s tries to close it, but it some sense it makes it more complicated.
I am getting back to development and went with Netlify and FaunaDB. The Netlify functions I am using are still quite simple, I am not that much worried about being locked, as long as it scales well (if needed, this would be a good problem to have).
I am still on free plan with all of these providers - I don't worry about scalability or whether the servers are up and running. If I need to upgrade, it would be because there are customers paying, which would pay for itself. With that in mind I have also designed the product to work without many resources needed. Created a cost calculator for the project too. :)
You are saving money, have full flexibility, no scaling issue. What's not to like about it?
Way to go. 👌