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I'm a tad confused on the question... - what's your recipe actually set up on the VPS? - is the fear that your clients will want Docker/Kube from the get-go and not your single-server solution?

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Mine is:

- terraform to setup the VPS from the command line

- Ansible to provision the VPS

Ansible's model is quite simple and you don't require an agent running in each VPS to provision it.

I don't use containers (each VPS is on charge of one thing only. Example: 1 VPS for nginx, 1 for my Go/Python/whatever server, 1 for DB, 1 as a bastion host, etc.)

It's more about general trends for solo devs. Are we all going to be forced to go down the AWS route in the long-run?

Yea it sucks to be forced in any direction, I feel your pain with the complicated-ness of AWS. Alternative to AWS, what sort of alternatives you see emerging? In my research I've found a handful of PaaS/Self-Hosted options (Bubbles, Budibase, Mendix, DronaHQ, etc), why not use them? Then people also ask, why not just use Heroku or DigitalOcean?

Loaded question, but, asking anyways, what's wrong with AWS?

I'm personally attempting to make AWS "easier" and less of a labyrinth with my projects. I'd love to pick your brain if you have a few moments to spare, solo devs like you and me is who I'm trying to cater to.

I've used Linode and Digital Ocean in the past and more recently Hetzner who are ridiculously cheap. I just don't like the idea of Amazon having access to my bank account exposing me to arbitrary charges.

Yea I've used those too, great way to get a quick lil server up and running...

Quick question, I've on a AWS bootstrapping/code deployment framework to AWS currently, would you be willing to kick the tires on it a bit?

Put briefly, it configures an AWS org and domain, a GitHub Org, provides template repos, and connects all the wires...

https://docs.scaffold.ly/tutorials

It's not the Docker/Kube Kool-aide, but it is the Lambda+Serverless Kool-aide, so AWS charges for idle infra are near-zero.

I don't have much context on what you're building for your solo projects, but I'd like to learn more, so feel free to message me directly too, hackernews [at] cnuss dotcom

You're way ahead of me so there's nothing I can teach you. I dipped my toe into AWS a couple of times but decided it was less stress for me and my client to go with a VPS on Hetznder, Linode or Digital Ocean. Most of my work has been typical MVC web apps with Rails, PHP & Perl.

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