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Thank you so much for sharing the setup and the hosted service.

I'm a little curious about the setup bit for (self) hosting - it's essentially a series of bespoke python scripts? Not cloud init, not Ansible - and not shell scripts - nor Terraform/tofu.

Would love to hear a few thoughts of how you arrived at this setup - and if you re-use parts for other projects?

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Thanks! It's not so bespoke, it's Fabric (https://www.fabfile.org/), it's been around at least since 2011, but probably much longer, since they already had 1.2.0 in 2011. It's a super reliable script for setting up servers over SSH. Yes, you run the same commands you'd type in a terminal, works perfectly.

Thanks for clearing that up - it wasn't obvious to me at a glance.

Not OP but I do the same thing, except with NodeJS.

I spent a long time learning Salt stack (like Ansible) but it never really paid off. When you're writing o config to set up one specific project on known infrastructure you might as well just code it in the scripting language you like best.

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