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.net developer by trade, side project is .net as well but with a twist:

Webserver; Azure ubuntu VM, nginx reverse proxy.

Application: asp.net core 2 MVC backend, plain old html/jquery frontend. Really want to upgrade to VueJS/Typescript just to see whats up.

DB: A managed database on Azure

We are running chromebits. Runs on ChromeOS, simple to build a 'kiosk app' which automatically starts on startup. Costs more than RPI.

Very easy to lock up, easily administered (reboot/screenshot) from the management console. We have a few hundreds of them out there, works like a charm and pretty much no work.

I'd advise against the likes of RPI's if you need a few and remote manage them. Deploying new app versions is very easy and the thing just works. Don't underestimate the freedom it gives to not have to do any damn thing on the box, ever. When working at scale the time you save is enormous.

Design looks fine to me. Got an error after clicking on 'C#' on the homepage, might want to look into that? :)

Only have one long-term goal: maximizing the happyness of my family. Biggest achievement would be not having to worry about finances and being able to work (a lot) less.

Pretty much every short-term goal ought to be a net plus on my longterm goal. Short-term goals: 1. Get our new SaaS business to 3K euro MRR So my wife can quit job and support the SaaS (It's targeting the niche she works in, once software is done she does over support / sales / marketing / networking etc.). This is #1 because her job is awfull and low-paying, so we need to fix that first. Just landed a great customer so fingers crossed...

2. Either get SaaS up to 8k euro MRR+ OR start another - So i can start working alongside her doing the same kind of work. Might even be able to hire someone so we can take some days off!

My job now is great. Pay is not great, but i can easily take days of if i want or work from home etc. No commute to speak of, so maximum time for other company stuff. If #1 or #2 is a bust, i'm pretty confident i will keep trying to get a SaaS off the ground. Either that or get another job half an hour away so i can retire a few years faster. Lets hope for the former.

Happy easter to you too, send from the office at 1.26AM working on mission critical hardware failures.

Well... maybe you could go old-school and just put down a physical server in your local network which hosts the DB?

So basically you have the same setup as with your AWS instance, minus the network latency.

Everyone wants to go fancy and host everything in the cloud nowadays, but a local server for development can be very useful still!

Farming them beats... beets! :D

Let me reiterate:

- You take on contracts on the side and do not get enough sleep because of that.

- You think the company you work for should maybe compensate you with some time to sleep during their working time.

What happened when you asked the people you do some contracting for if you could sleep an hour and bill them your hourly for that?

I would think it reasonable for your full-time gig to respond in the exact same way as your freelance gig would.