squallstar

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by squallstar 4y ago
Fragments.me doesn't run it for free, I pay for hosting and devops (which I do on my own). Running it on your own should take minutes as it's just a Meteor app, so anything like a cheap ubuntu box with node.js and meteor would do.
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by squallstar 4y ago
I always found bookmark apps to be missing the features I needed to I ended building my own open-source bookmarking tool back in 2015 and I still use it to this day. I'll share it here in case it's helpful to any of you. Here&#x27
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by squallstar 5y ago
I agree, I deliberately generalised with those examples to make a little clear that as the required traffic, capacity and risk increases there's a lot of benefits with using services that automatically configure and provisions load bal
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by squallstar 5y ago
Depending on how you provision the services (e.g. infrastructure as code) you may not be locked in at all and switching to a new provider is relatively straight forward. This comes up quite often in infosec questionnaires for DRP, so if you
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by squallstar 5y ago
Why do you need to use a major service though? There's a ton of cloud providers you can use that offer pretty much a similar range of services and are certified, e.g. ISO27001, SoC2.
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by squallstar 5y ago
Nowadays there's such an abundance of PaaS that in my opinion it doesn't make any sense anymore to get a VPS and manage it yourself, unless you're willing to potentially spending numerous hours in DevOps yourself in both init
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by squallstar 5y ago
Yes, tell me about not needing the cloud (aka a managed provisioning and scaling service) when your poorly configured database breaks, or when you need a 3 hours downtime on prod because you need to reboot and reconfigure your services, or
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by squallstar 6y ago
I was one of the tech founders of a start-up called Cronycle which made a similar (but more advanced) tool many years ago: https://www.cronycle.com/ I don't know if I can still recommend the product but for the years I
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App to find tours by independent guides and tour operators
1 points by squallstar 11y ago|0 comments
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Belocal (iOS/Android apps) – like AirBnB, but for travellers
1 points by squallstar 11y ago|1 comments
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by squallstar 13y ago
https://github.com/atom/welcome/blob/master/lib/welcome.md