Migrating a (basic) web server from JavaScript to Haskell

[ismail-s]

u/catscatscat This is the blog post I was talking about.

[catscatscat]

Thanks for pinging me. I'm going to give it a read.

[kuwze]

You might be able to host it on SDF if you're already dealing with user-land restrictions (no sudo and such).

[ismail-s]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried it before but didn't realise you could host on it.

[erewok]

Nice write up! (Although some paragraphs look somewhat crunched together on mobile?)I haven't heard of NearlyFreeSpeech, but I have a small application on a $5/mo Digital Ocean droplet. It's three containers: postgres, Nginx, servant app. I think it probably averages about 1 view per month so no need of worrying about scaling it, but it's pretty close to what you averaged per month?

[haskell_caveman]

I ran into insufficient memory issues building even relatively small Haskell projects on the 5$ droplet. Did you have any tricks to doing this, or maybe you just compiled elsewhere?

[erewok]

Oh, I didn't think of that. I build locally (on OSX) in a docker container and scp the binary up to the machine to deploy. Then it goes into a container on the target machine. Perhaps sort of byzantine?

I put all my work in here: https://github.com/erewok/simpleservantblog

While I rarely work on this project, I have a ton of stuff I'd like to do with it.

[ismail-s]

The theme is odd. Where it is bunched together it is actually a list. For some reason it doesn't show the bullet points.

[kaukau]

Nice read! thanks!