[nicbou]

My project is just a website. It has mostly content and a small API for form processing.

I take a "power pack" approach. Everything - content, code, infra - is packed together and deployed together. It runs in docker compose on DigitalOcean.

To deploy, I just push to GitHub. A service on the server side rebuilds whenever it sees new commits. It's also part of the power pack. I don't like having things spread across multiple services. A pre-push hook lints and builds the static site before deployments, so failed builds are very rare.

This works well for me because I often work offline or with bad internet. It's important for me to run everything locally. I can also run just the static site generator if all I do is edit the content.

[canto]

Thanks for your input! This seems super cool! Have you considered heroku and alike? Or you just stick to DO for the additional remote compute that you use?

[nicbou]

I like that my VPS is just a generic Linux box, and not a PaaS. If DigitalOcean doesn't work, I can redeploy anywhere else in a few minutes.

I also find this a lot easier to reason about than a bunch of scattered services talking to each other through APIs. In the end, it's just docker plus a bunch of scripts.