Research options for web app hosting

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Research options for web app hosting #1

Closed bmitchinson closed 5 years ago

bmitchinson commented 5 years ago

Research options for where to host Open Q.

May involve:

Finding a domain name
Detailed deployment process for the team

bmitchinson commented 5 years ago

Looked up firebase and thought it looked cool:

jhofmann33 commented 5 years ago

Looked up firebase and thought it looked cool: https://firebase.google.com/

npilafas commented 5 years ago

I found a few web app hosting sites that are free along with Firebase too. The top three I saw were Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud storage and Amazon S3. As for a domain name I found a website with some free ones called dot.tk. I'm a little suspicious about it though cause it's not a secure site and I've never heard of it. Let me know what you all think?

bmitchinson commented 5 years ago

@npilafas good find, GCP (Google Cloud), Azure, and S3 are normally easy to set up, but how will we pick between the three?

What's the cost of hosting on each platform? Are there bandwidth limits?
What makes them different from one another?
What are each of their team controls like since everyone on the team will need access to developing the app?
What's the deployment process like? How will we push our built front end to the platform? Can it be automated from our repo?

bmitchinson commented 5 years ago

I found a domain that i'm gonna by for a year for like 4 bucks, so don't worry about domain anymore. Details to come

Rallph commented 5 years ago

Also consider adding Heroku to our list of possibilities. It has a free tier, as well as GitHub integration that allows us to make changes to our code and have it automatically build and run our app so we can review changes and make them live.

npilafas commented 5 years ago

Here's some of the stuff I have found:

Azure:

first 5GB free, .08 cents/GB and .024 cents for File Storage/GB/month
can connect to GitHub
Automated deployments with continuous deployment capabilities through GitHub

Amazon:

1GB free, .09 cents data transfer/GB, .023 cents File Storage/GB/month
permissions to share
Codepipeline deploys files and is automates

Google:

.11 cents data transfer/GB, .026 cents File Storage/GB/month
couldn't find anything on teams but I'm sure they have a way to do it
automated deployment manager

Heroku:

1000 hours free while server is running, it 'sleeps' when not in use
deployments through GitHub integration
team friendly

Firebase:

free limited GBs -team friendly -own deployment methods

The website below makes some interesting comparisons between all 5 options:

https://blog.patricktriest.com/host-webapps-free/

bmitchinson commented 5 years ago

@npilafas Great breakdown. That blog post by Triest was really helpful. Learned quite a bit about the different approaches myself, so thanks. Looking forward to deciding how to run it next week 👍

bmitchinson commented 5 years ago

Cool heroku feature

bmitchinson commented 5 years ago

Decided to use Heroku at our last meeting 👍