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by journalctl
2426 days ago
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Except you need approximately zero of those things (especially Bazel. Jesus, who would pull in Bazel for this?) To run a website in 2019, you need: 1. Server
2. nginx
3. A certificate
4. DNS The vast majority of people don’t actually need to scale at all. I got HN hugged once and my little Digital Ocean droplet with nginx performed just fine. Granted, it was a static site. But scalability is one of those things that everyone says they want, but probably don’t actually need (or haven’t really profiled to see if scaling horizontally would help). I’ve been burned too much by devs using Docker and Kubernetes and all of this other nonsense just to host basic web backends, because I’m always the one who has to clean up the mess when it shits the bed. Web hosting needn’t be difficult, but we keep making it difficult. |
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I wasn't talking about building a static website, I was talking about building a scalable web app. You can start a project as a hobby, but if you every hope to dream of doing something larger, you should at very least consider a path to expansion. This shouldn't mean jumping into Docker and Kubernetes, which are pretty complex. There should be platforms that handle database and instance scaling automatically. When you start off, you only need one or two instances, and as you grow, new instances get automatically added.
Back in the old days of 2013, this was super easy, no Dockerfile or Kubernetes yaml files were needed. Now, you need to configure every single tiny variable for every operation. This is great for large enterprises, but miserable for small companies that want to get started.