1) buy a dedicated server (40 Eur/m.)
2) setup with Ubuntu or Debian
3) git clone and run setup scripts
4) deploy containers
5) setup backup and monitoring (20 Eur/m.)
It's the most reliable and cheapest solution ever.
No need for 3rd party devops.
1) reliable 100 % so far (10 months), better than DigitalOcean or GoDaddy
2) I don't need load-balancing - average load is 0.04, no need for a clone
3) recovery of a failed container under 2 minutes or max. 10 minutes if done manually from a daily backup
4) customers pay $4 a month so they don't need much (it's a managed hosting, so we take care of their needs, setup changes, plugins, debugging problems)
5) it's not a professional business, it's a hobby
6) my time is my time, I prefer to know what's happening on the server
7) I have my own orchestration, I am a programmer for fucking 35 years
My story is like this:
1) buy a dedicated server (40 Eur/m.)
2) setup with Ubuntu or Debian
3) git clone and run setup scripts
4) deploy containers
5) setup backup and monitoring (20 Eur/m.)
It's the most reliable and cheapest solution ever.
No need for 3rd party devops.
Do you implement all of this on that single server?
Is it reliable at all, let a lone most reliable? Is it highly available? Any load-balancing by any chance?
What are the RTO and RPO?
What container orchestrator do you use? Just please don't tell me docker swarm.
And on top of that is your time is less valuable than $9 per month?
6 CPU AMD Ryzen (12 threads) / 64 GB RAM / 500 GB nVME RAID1
1) reliable 100 % so far (10 months), better than DigitalOcean or GoDaddy
2) I don't need load-balancing - average load is 0.04, no need for a clone
3) recovery of a failed container under 2 minutes or max. 10 minutes if done manually from a daily backup
4) customers pay $4 a month so they don't need much (it's a managed hosting, so we take care of their needs, setup changes, plugins, debugging problems)
5) it's not a professional business, it's a hobby
6) my time is my time, I prefer to know what's happening on the server
7) I have my own orchestration, I am a programmer for fucking 35 years
BTW I take care of customers solutions under 1 hour a month, it works on its own, everything is automated (I <3 cron)
Well, number 5 tells it all.
And regarding number 7, actually your time is then 10x more valuable because you can make money out of each second of it with your experience.
But again, if it works for you it's good.
no, my time is not valuable, I am nearly dead