AWS Template or Docker

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Although I find Heroku very easy to use, it's unlikely that we can run c-lightning on it. So it might be easier to run the whole stack on EC2.

I have no experience with AWS templates. Is it possible to reuse these if you have your own server?

Docker might be an easier and more portable solution.

Stack should probably consist of:

• bitcoind node (until there's support for Neutrino protocol, user should be able to tweak bitcoin.conf
  • pruned by default
  • optionally preloaded chain data so user doesn't have to wait for IBD
  • non listening
  • other resource saving settings?
• c-lightning
  • instructions to open lightning port in security group
• Lightning Charge (at least until #13)
• mail server (perhaps easier to let Rails use an external SMTP server?)
• Postgres database
• some room for images and podcast episodes
• Matreon server

There should be an easy way / proper instructions to upgrade these components.

[Sjors]

I created an AWS template which uses docker, though plan to get rid of Docker in #48.