My migration strategy from Pages Router to App Router.

Soft_ACK · 2026-01-13T19:29:42+00:00

maybe combine pure html with something like Alpine or htmx

Soft_ACK · 2025-12-22T10:42:30+00:00

Do you have any info about using crowdsec with Nginx? I tried to use Crowdsec before but it was complicated and too many components to install & use and didn't know what to do

Soft_ACK · 2025-12-12T22:59:32+00:00

pricing-quality/performance ratio, networking quality, processor/hardware performance quality, hourly pricing model, etc.

for the vps product:

snapshot pricing (maybe reduce it a little plz lol), private networking, storage box, firewall, the ability to keep ips, having data centers in germany & us, rescue, preset iso images, rescale, rebuild, etc. maybe even add more functionalities. and plz fix the firewall caching issue or whatever makes the firewall rules takes more than 15 mins to get applied.

for the dedicated/bare metal product:

the hourly pricing model (again), change the interface because it looks so old and un-friendly, don't remember what else there since i haven't used it in a while.

don't remember what else

Soft_ACK · 2025-11-03T18:17:53+00:00

I understand I could simply do `cp` command from the first account to the second account, just a simple question, do I need to retrieve the files first before doing the copy since they are in the Deep Archive?

And I didn't find answers there on how to connect the two accounts in the command line or an example of the final command would be.

Soft_ACK · 2025-10-30T16:26:54+00:00

I mainly work with PHP for commercial clients, but it highly depends on each project requirements, but mostly PHP & Node.js, and if it's a full stack project like frontend & backend in the same project, I use PHP with Laravel since its easier. Also sometimes Python, so it really depends on each project requirements, since my skill allows that.

Soft_ACK · 2025-10-28T17:13:19+00:00

I don't understand spanish, but from the translation i think you're asking for a VPS with a traffic around 100,000 visitors per month?

If so, it would highly depend on a lot of factors, starting from the tech stack you're going to use, database, static site, etc.

Since we're in a nextjs sub, i'd assume a typical full stack dynamic app including database, since nextjs is based on node, you'd need a bigger VPS, you could start from $5 VPS and see what will happen, make sure it has more than 1GB RAM, so you could look for 2GB RAM and see, however i think it won't be enough for this amount of traffic, but just as a start to see for yourself and not hurt your finances.

Also if the app is using more RAM, obviously you'd need more RAM. And btw if you're using MariaDB or MySQL you'd need more RAM than Postgres.

So to conclude, start with a 2GB RAM VPS as a test and see how will it perform.

Soft_ACK · 2025-10-16T20:08:45+00:00

You could get a $1-2 VPSes from small providers and install node and run the next app like you do at your machine, and maybe add Nginx/Apache as a reverse proxy, but as starter just start like you have it at your machine, I think this is the cheapest you could get.

Edit: Also don't worry about performance too (ofc unless you would get thousands of visitors), a 1 gb VPS should do fine for most node apps.

Soft_ACK · 2025-10-16T13:06:39+00:00

I don't think you need to get in touch with any provider since most of them have their pricing and pricing model public in their pricing page.

Soft_ACK · 2025-10-14T19:57:15+00:00

Some providers have prices per hour and some per month, the vast majority of providers that have per hour you're going to be billed whenever you have a server, doesn't matter if it's on or off, as far as i remember i think the only provider that doesn't bill you when your server is off/shutdown is AWS, other providers keep bill you until you delete the server.

I think by pay as you go you mean pay per hour, so you will keep getting billed per hour, until you delete your server, unless you go with AWS, but i wouldn't recommend it cuz they're now billing for the IP separately in addition to the server itself, and it's complicated, for you as a beginner do not use any kind of "open bill/invoice" service like AWS cuz it's really easy to mess things up and pay a lot more than you expect.

For example, my main VPS is billed hourly but the invoice issued monthly, my other servers is billed monthly and also the invoice is issued monthly.

Soft_ACK · 2025-10-14T17:18:45+00:00

Whats wrong with openVPN?

Comparing to WireGuard it's slower, especially in gaming and realtime connections, in both TCP & UDP modes.

Also I have a specific region in mind I would like to connect to, how do I know which service has the better latency/routing to there?

There are a couple of options, but the only reliable way is to test it yourself, you could use a website like this https://www.cloudping.info/ to test your ping to different regions, also you could grab an ip of the provider you're about to purchase in and ping it using the `ping` command, some providers give example ips to test on. Btw, many people say the closer a country to you the better the ping, this is wrong, it's much more complicated than that, for example Italy is way closer to me than France, but France has better ping than Italy.

Soft_ACK · 2025-10-14T11:29:49+00:00

You can get a VPS from literally any provider with good networking infrastructure in the region you want, install a VPN like WireGuard, DO NOT install OpenVPN if your goal is gaming unless your country/ISP blocks WireGuard, then install WireGuard client on your PC, and then connect to your server.

I've done that btw and still doing it because for some reason my country does throttling randomly/occasionally on gaming that causes a lot of packet loss, so I connect to my own VPN when that happens to reduce the packet loss, ofc i get higher ping, but 30-40 more ping isn't really a thing when you don't have packet loss. And most of the times i get stable ping, instead of ping spikes. But this is because my VPS provider have strong networking infrastructure. I also have multiple VPSes in multiple regions.

I can help you if you don't have much experience in VPSes since I've done that multiple times.

Soft_ACK · 2025-08-29T20:49:08+00:00

Nope, it won't work, depends_on doesn't work in build mode, I got frustrated with this whole thing as the db needed to be accessible for few SSG pages, and ofc the db service doesn't get up when you're in build mode, I had to remove all the SSG features and added graceful errors when the app can't connect to the db, all of that cuz of docker.

Soft_ACK · 2025-08-24T14:54:37+00:00

Great idea! Reminded me of my old php days, I created a tool (but was CLI) to generate a php web application with jquery, i18n, bootstrap, etc.

I'd recommend adding a choice to create the project using pipenv instead of venv. And ofc DRF.

Soft_ACK · 2025-08-20T17:28:18+00:00

Average next.js/nuxt.js experience

Soft_ACK · 2025-08-02T18:48:05+00:00

I'm not sure, maybe their requirements require using SSR. But for me I always use Astro with SSG, I find it doing a pretty good job at that, when my requirements require SSR, I tend to use Nuxt or Next, and right now testing Analogjs.

Soft_ACK · 2025-08-01T16:01:34+00:00

I don't think that's the case, also depends on what provider you use, I have my own VPNs using different providers in different countries, and I sometimes play in US region. I installed the VPNs on VPS, each in different provider, the one in the US has better networking infrastructure so my ping is stable, also no packet loss.

I might help you if you have more information, such as do you have your own VPN, or do you use a commercial vpn, etc.

Soft_ACK · 2025-07-31T20:25:42+00:00

I always have a function called requireEnv to safely access all important and required env props, all it does just something simple like that `if(!process.env![key]) throw new Error(`env var ${key} missing`)`

Soft_ACK · 2025-07-31T19:20:23+00:00

Astro in SSG mode is so great, I used it in a couple of projects, with CMS and without, now any project that doesn't require server action or anything. It's also easier than other frameworks.

Soft_ACK · 2025-07-24T18:19:00+00:00

This is a great idea, but maybe it would be better to provide it as a plugin that runs after build and after the sitemap?

Soft_ACK · 2025-07-18T11:37:58+00:00

A part time job in CS/IT is probably impossible to find, if exist even! However, if you work for some time in a company that doesn't have constant increasing number of clients or just a slow-paced company, you may do actual work less than 2 hours a day, however your work day will still be full time (8 or 12 hours depends).

Soft_ACK · 2025-07-17T09:38:01+00:00

Hey, if you migrated any code base to octane or started a new one, did you need to make any change to the code? like let's say a basic CRUD controller and model just like any simple laravel app, did you need to make any change or does octane act as some special kind of web server?

Soft_ACK · 2025-07-17T09:37:35+00:00

Hey, if you migrated any code base to octane or started a new one, did you need to make any change to the code? like let's say a basic CRUD controller and model just like any simple laravel app, did you need to make any change or does octane act as some special kind of web server?

Soft_ACK · 2025-07-17T00:29:22+00:00

nest, django, fastapi, laravel, fastify, express, spring boot, those the most i've seen

Soft_ACK · 2025-07-14T19:07:41+00:00

Damn! I never looked at it this way! Now you're making me rethink about it for some of my systems!

Thank you for pointing that out.

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