Hey guys, so I’m kind of new to the indie hacking world and I wanted to take advantage of the current discounts and offers, I plan on building a project where the main cost will be around hosting I guess, free and premium users will upload documents all the time so that’s my my concern.

My main stack is Nextjs, Nodejs, MySQL or Postgres.

I already have a cloudways account which costs me around $11.5 a month so I’m not sure if it suits my tecj stack.

My budget is under $2000 so I don’t if that’s enough to afford the whole process, domain, hosting… Etc, no external APIs will be used so that’s about all.

Thanks in advance.

  • anonperson2021@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You don’t need to spend anywhere close to that.

    I use Google Cloud Platform (appengine) and Digital Ocean for the database. Together they come to like $20 a month (17 of that goes to digital ocean). And hooked up a domain I purchased on Bluehost. You can probably find managed database even cheaper than that, and cut it down to 10 a month or so (everything combined).

    You shouldn’t be spending a lost on infra till you have traffic to justify it. Nor need to spend a lot.

    GCP is similar to AWS or Heroku. These platforms are comparable and enough to get you started and till you have decent traffic. After that you can always migrate to some enterprise type of package for handling large number of hits.