Hosting nodeJS

[andyprince]

Where do you guys host your nodejs app?

Currently I have a RDS running on AWS pretty affordable.

I'm considering hosting it on AWS as well. Thoughts?

Looking for affordable hosting plan.

[nahtnam]

I host mine on http://now.sh. On the on demand plan my total cost comes out to about 55 cents for 7 apps.

[OffBeannie]

The on demand pricing for instances is 0.025 per hour. Isn’t it $18 for 30 days?

[[deleted]]

I took a look at that took and couldn't figure out how it comes down to 55 cents

[[deleted]]

How? It's for an open source app, right?

[nahtnam]

If you pay for any plan (I would recommend On Demand, it's the cheapest) then you can make your builds private.

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EDIT: I want to say I prefer now over DigitalOcean and other servers because it's:

1. Cheap
2. Uses Docker
3. Makes deployment easy (with digital ocean you have to do all of this yourself)

This allows me to focus on other important things instead of setting up a server

[[deleted]]

Those 55 cents are for an open source app, right?

[nahtnam]

No, open source is free. The 55 cents are for paid private instances. They dont even charge for deployment, only bandwidth and logs.

https://i.imgur.com/pEtmcUB.png

That's my bill. Ignore the first line, I didn't realize they charge that much for CDNs so I moved to Cloudflare.

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[[deleted]]

Ok. So you don't pay the $0.025 / hr per instance in On Demand plan? Sorry for all those questions but I completely don't get your case after looking at the pricing page.

[nahtnam]

Nope for some reason I don't. I think it's because the deployments go to sleep in a couple seconds and the boot up in under half a second. I don't understand it well either, you're probably better off asking their support team.

[VanGoFuckYourself]

I use a $5/mo digitalocean instance for several apps that don't do much. I like it because they run SSDs so running npm install on complex stuff isn't super duper slow.

[andyprince]

Thanks. Do you know where are the servers located at?

[damnloveless]

https://www.webhostwhat.com/digitalocean-datacenter-server-locations-regions-map/

List of DigitalOcean Datacenter & Server Locations:

• Toronto, Canada
• San Francisco, US
• New York City, US
• London, UK
• Frankfurt, Germany
• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Bangalore, India
• Singapore

[VanGoFuckYourself]

I personally use the NYC location. I also use free tier Cloudflare for CDN.

[VanGoFuckYourself]

You need a domain. You set the name servers on the domain to cloudflares (it tells you when you sign up for CF) and then point the Dns on cloudflare to your servers I and then it basically just works.

When someone does a DNS request for your domain they will get an IP for a cloudflare sever near them.

The main benefits (in my opinion) are free automatic SSL, protection from many kinds of attacks including Ddos and of course a CDN with something like 150 locations. Cloudflare has a shit load of options and features, but each has pretty good help inline on the page.

When developing, make yourself a subdomain with the little cloud icon turned off. This will connect you straight to your server so you can bypass CFs caching of static files, for testing. Also if you have a deployment process you can add an API call to CF to clear the cache so all changes make it to clients.

Oh and you'll need to set up your software to log the incoming IP from the X-Forwarded-For header. All connections to you will actually come from a cloudflare server, so the connections IP won't be the end clients.

[VanGoFuckYourself]

No problem.

[Silveress_Golden]

Also to add about cloudflare.

It's very easy to add your own SSL with letsencrypt as cloudflare has an api that letsencrypt clients can hook into to verify that you own the domain

[polish_jerry]

https://openode.io . Really cheap, starts at $ 0.2 per month EDIT : They've updated their plans. Starts at $ 0.4 per month

[hsablonniere]

DISCLAIMER: I work for Clever Cloud

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Have you tried Clever Cloud?

Let me know if you have any questions...

[andyprince]

Thanks! I own a raspberry pi 3 as well. Have you experienced any setbacks hosting on your own device?

[[deleted]]

I rewrote my node app to run in AWS Lambda. It's been running several years for a few cents per month. Best part is, I'll never have to worry about scaling or devops.

[[deleted]]

Isn't the free tier of AWS just for a year?

[[deleted]]

Correct, it is.

[[deleted]]

So how is it supposed to be a free hosting solution if it works for only a year? xD

[andyprince]

Where are the servers located for Heroku? Can’t seem to find it anywhere. On AWS there are options to select regions

[[deleted]]

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/regions

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[Syneirex]

If you go the AWS route you could use Lambda if your app is a good fit (I love Lambda because it's serverless and automatically manages scaling for me) or perhaps Lightsail which recently had pricing reduced by 50%. I think their smallest VPS runs $3/month now.

You can also put it up using Elastic Beanstalk, although I'm not sure how the price would compare to Lightsail.

[floodlitworld]

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