730: Own Your Own PaaS

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Scott and Wes talk about the benefits of owning your own PaaS (platform as a service), the main alternatives in the space, and ways to make passion projects more financially viable. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:12 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 01:56 What is a PaaS? NGINX 04:21 Challenges with payment structures. Render 07:02 What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes 07:51 What are the differences between Kubernetes and Docker? Docker Swarm 09:15 Reasons to own your own PaaS. Nelify Bluehost 15:05 “Pokémon or Web Service” Original 150 Pokémon Characters 16:49 The players and their pros and cons. 18:51 Where can you host these services? 19:47 Kubero. Kubero 21:50 Coolify. Coolify Coolify pricing 28:15 Caprover. Caprover 29:03 Dokku. Dokku Shokku Ledokku Atlas Nixpacks 32:53 Piku. Piku 33:24 Cuber. Cuber 34:13 Acorn. Acorn Coolify creator, Andras Bacsai on X 36:44 The challenges of hosting your own PaaS. 38:46 Jekyll ran on a PC under a desk. Jekyll 39:36 Sometimes less is, in fact, more. 40:09 Final thoughts. 45:03 Scott got Bun to work on Coolify. 51:01 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs. Sick Picks Wes: GripStic Chip Bag Sealer Amazon, GripStic Chip Bag Sealer Aliexpress Scott: Caseta Diva Smart Dimmer Shameless Plugs Wes: Syntax YouTube Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott:X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0	Welcome to Syntax. Today we are having an episode that is rallying against the
0:07.2	$20 a month per user hosting services out there. We are going to be talking about hosting your own platform as a
0:17.0	service which is everybody loves these amazing services that you pay $20 a month
0:22.3	per user for because they compile your code, they deploy
0:27.0	them, they do all that good stuff for you, but they get expensive really quickly, especially now that the VC money is drying up.
0:36.0	It seems like everybody is jacking up the rates for that type of thing.
0:40.0	So Scott has gone off the deep end and he has learned the word
0:46.5	Kubernetes.
0:47.5	Yes.
0:48.5	Lots of other scary things.
0:51.4	And we're going to take a look at like hosting your own websites, but even more than that, right? Like hosting your own thing that will do the auto build for you right yes absolutely yeah and we'll be
1:04.8	going deep on what some options here and maybe some of the pain points that I
1:09.5	hit or just some interesting things but if you want to host your own pass without being out on your ass,
1:16.0	you have to have...
1:18.0	Whoa! You have to have software monitoring to make sure that your software is functioning
1:22.0	as expected.
1:23.7	And you know it does a really great job?
1:25.1	Sentry, Sentry.io or Sentry.
1:27.7	I.O. slash syntax actually is the new URL for us.
1:32.1	Yeah, check it out. yeah, check it out.
1:34.0	Yeah, check it out.
1:35.0	You can give them a try.
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