From orchestrating containers to "serverless" to doing it all yourself with an ansible script and a $5 DO droplet, the options for hosting websites and apps have changed considerably in the past decade.
What method do you use for putting stuff on the internet? Am I "old school" for thinking I still need to install and configure a server myself?
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Much of my freelance work ends up on GCP. Most of my personal projects end up on Heroku and Netlify. Anything non-standard ends up on AWS and anything that needs to run "serverless" ends up on AWS Lambda.
I have too many hosting providers.
On my project, we use Red Hat OpenShift, a container-based platform.
I often work with a PHP stack. For clients projects I like to use Cloudways. It's managed cloud hosting; so you can host on Digital Ocean/Vultr/linode via Cloudways.
It is very much on the expensive side, but the features make it worth it for clients.
Digital ocean for low traffic projects that don't need to scale.
Google cloud App Engine for services that are used intermittently, and Google static hosting for mostly everything else in between.
I'm CHEAP lol
I use Google Cloud Platform (*GCP) for both personal and work (Social Blade).
For personal stuff I deploy things to GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) and store data in Datastore.
For work we use many different GCP products. 🙂
We do plan on moving our Instance Grouped Compute instances into App Engine Service soon™ to easier management and we plan on moving from Cloud MySQL to Google Spanner in the coming months
TeamCoco.com is hosted on AWS. We also use a bunch of AWS services for video transcoding, batch processing, transcription, etc.
For personal projects, I tend to use Google Cloud and Firebase to prototype and transition to AWS once my needs grow.
I use DigitalOcean for the most. But it depends, I'm also using Glitch for demos and Surge.sh for some frontend project.
For me it all depends.
If its some blog or site then I use shared hosting as I get it for like $3p/m , if blog/site goes over 20K visitors per month I move it onto AWS.
If its something personal like an app etc, again I use AWS.
Most of my personal stuff is on DO. I have also been playing around with GCP for one project. I haven't done much with it yet, but I like the simplicity of it's UI, at least compared to AWS. I'm also intrigued by their use of chromeOS as a server OS. I don't have a ton of experience with it, I just like playing with different OS's.
At work, we're all AWS. AWS does a lot of things right, and they have a ton of features, but I feel that their UI leaves a lot to be desired, and their documentation is a bit hard to navigate, for lack of a better term. I can usually find a solution to whatever problem I'm trying to solve, but it takes longer than I think it should.
I make all my sites to be static so I use a mix of Netlify and GitHub Pages.