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Hosting for Django and DB (Spike) #39

Closed Ragnar-H closed 7 years ago

Ragnar-H commented 7 years ago

The frontend is hosted in Netlify ❤️

It be great if we could find a free/cheap hosting service for the API

@AriHrannar @Jarngreipr Do you know any hosting services? And would you be willing to spend some 💰 for a service?

Resolution of this issue would entail:

[ ] List of suitable candidates
[ ] Pros/cons
[ ] Can they be integrated with our CI?
[ ] 💸?
[ ] Do we need to change the frontend in any way?

Ragnar-H commented 7 years ago

Off the top of my head I know of:

https://aws.amazon.com/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/ (Personal favorite, but might require some email exchanges with Microsoft)
https://www.heroku.com/
https://www.linode.com/ (No free plan, but very reasonable prices)

AriHrannar commented 7 years ago

@bjerkins is using https://www.scaleway.com/ to host some of his stuff. 3 euros for a starter cloud

Another thought: Thoughts on dockerizing everything? Web, backend, postgres, etc. Should make deployments eeeasier :)

Ragnar-H commented 7 years ago

Dockerizing everything sounds exciting.

But if I'm realistic, I doubt I'll do it. I've got very little experience with dockerizing a project, and I kind of just want things to run right now.

If you do decide to try it, I think you should timebox the attempt

AriHrannar commented 7 years ago

I agree we shouldnt do it right now. I say after we are happy with a MVP, then ill look at Docker ;)

AriHrannar commented 7 years ago

Current status:

I have dockerized the backend and am currently autodeploying to an Amazon instance that I have.

Ragnar-H commented 7 years ago

Good job 🎈🎈🎈

Does the amazing instance have a static url that can be called? Then it should be trivial to point the frontend to it

AriHrannar commented 7 years ago

I think it has a static url. Just have to be sure not to delete the instance (docker cloud does that if we shut off the stack from that side) and just pause it on amazon when we dont need it running

Ragnar-H commented 7 years ago

If you need a static URL then it's Route53 you should look at

Ragnar-H commented 7 years ago

https://veritus.adult is available Just saying ;)

AriHrannar commented 7 years ago

54 works with Amazon right now. Its using Docker-cloud, which is host independent. If we want to move away from Amazon in the future, its a few clicks away. I think we should therefore close this issue.