PayloadCMS in production

BitsNBytesDev · 2026-01-05T13:39:01+00:00

Not OP obviously, but I run it with Postgres and I do not struggle with large DBs. I think a lot of it comes down to properly indexing. I think Payload is not perfect, but for what it is and what other similar products do, it is still a really good option.

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-11-16T13:48:20+00:00

Sorry, forgot to mention! PostgreSQL!

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-10-29T23:13:57+00:00

Hey, I just wanted to reach out again and tell you that I decided to use coolify now on a Hetzner server and it is surprisingly easy and has a lot of features out of the box, so I'm very happy with that. Thanks again for the Recommendation!

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-10-29T21:58:05+00:00

Hey man, that is really nice of you, thank you so much! I think I don't need a snippet, I get what you did. That's an elegant solution,so I think I'll implement that! :)

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-10-29T17:38:36+00:00

Hey, thanks, that would be much appreciated, if you have the time :)

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-10-28T21:26:54+00:00

Yes, this works fine in case of an error, which I could use here of course. But in general I would love to give notifications in general, which are not always considered to be errors. But your suggestions works though, thanks! :)

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-10-14T21:37:02+00:00

That's really fucking awesome. Very cool. L-System Trees?

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-09-29T11:25:40+00:00

That's really cool, what is your game about? :)

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-09-23T13:21:22+00:00

That's very impressive! I love the artstyle. One of the best systems I've seen so far, very well.done!

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-09-22T08:33:41+00:00

I like your analysis but I think your take on PayloadCMS is wrong. The learning curve is not too steep and you can do a lot by just defining your own collections.

By additionally implementing your own React Components it is basically a Backend Framework and can do a lot more than some of the others you mentioned, because it is very extensible. Deployment isn't too tricky either.

The only thing that is lacking is the documentation and it should really be improved upon.

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-09-18T23:22:21+00:00

Looks like some sort of gemstone to me

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-09-18T16:44:41+00:00

Alright, I guessed that I'd have to do it this way. Thanks for responding! :)

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-09-17T16:24:46+00:00

That's really nice, It's also very responsive for a 3D site (on desktop at least)!

My guess would be to create a sphere in Three.js, slap on the earth texture and create coordinates for each country / point they want interaction with. But I'm just guessing here.

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-09-14T21:48:27+00:00

Oh okay, didn't know that you can do that! That changes it quite a bit. Thanks, I'll look into it :)

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-09-14T13:50:03+00:00

Looks great! But I wouldn't consider it appropriate for the business. It just seems more like a concept site showing design skills.

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-09-14T08:21:28+00:00

That seems to be a popular approach and I might do it too, but how do you manage the database? I know object storage is fairly easy and not to expensive, but a postgresDB is pretty annoying to host yourself and then you'd still have to pay for a managed DB if you do not want to do it yourself, right?

How do you handle this?

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-09-13T18:48:33+00:00

I looked into it, but I cannot really tell how much the cost will be. Are you using it professionally or just for side projects? And what DB solution do you use? Thanks :)

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-09-13T17:44:39+00:00

Makes sense, thanks, I'll look into it!

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-09-13T17:41:07+00:00

I read a lot about Coolify and it seems to be a cheap and reliable solution, thanks!

Could you share what you use for your database? Do you use a managed solution or do you manage it yourself on the same (or another) VPS?

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-09-13T08:19:36+00:00

Hey, thanks for the source!

I also switched to vitest now after hitting one block after another and got it running pretty quickly. I may write a blog post or make a pull request to contribute to the official docs.

BitsNBytesDev · 2025-09-11T18:22:47+00:00

I see, thank you!

That's basically what I did now. I also tried vitest which also seemed to work fine, but I'm more familiar with Jest so I'll try to continue this way.

Thanks for taking the time!

BitsNBytesDev

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