Where to Host a Fullstack Project on a Budget

Learn how I like to host fullstack projects when I'm on a tight budget.

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[nicholaskryger-nelson]

Lmao I've never seen someone make small talk as an intro to a youtube video.

This video is extremely helpful! It answered all my questions: "Where to host API?", "Where to host frontend?", "Where to host db?". Thanks a lot Ben!

[tjcarney]

"Had a weird sore throat problem"

our boi got the rona first...

[willysnowman]

i loved AWS until they sent me a bill.

[swyxTV]

this is incredible advice. thanks so much for laying down some real talk 🙇🏻

[dilaratsch]

0:51 Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
3:37 Cloud provider cons
4:45 Which cloud provider to choose?
5:27 Alternatives to cloud providers
6:12 Alternative #1: Hosting your database + backend
13:47 Alternative #2: Hosting your frontend
15:17 Alternative #3: Handling user-uploaded images

[TheUmnez]

This video was a perfect opportunity to plug affiliate links everywhere, but you didn't. Glad to see your focus is on providing value rather than making quick bucks off of shilling.

[alexwolfeboy]

I know I'm late, but I've ALWAYS used DigitalOcean for my hosting. They also provide things like CDNs and databases as services too, but their base servers are really cheap. I've been running my private email server for at least a couple years now, and because of low traffic, I only spend five dollars a month, and I love it.

[brandon.duffany]

First 30 seconds of this video had me imagining a delectable Thanksgiving meal -- not what I would expect from a software video, but extremely welcome

[assaadelhalabi]

Thank you Ben, really like how you offer real value in your vids. Lebanese here too brother.

[spaceynb]

This is so helpful thanks! I am mostly a frontend dev and am wanting to start a backend project soon, didn't know about these options.

[awwastor]

No one:
The captions:
“I am half eleven knees”

[tylerhurson]

Amazon Lightsail was created specifically to solve this problem. It's an AWS service with predictable and transparent pricing and a simplified UI for launching instances with minimal configuration. The smallest instance is dirt cheap- a flat fee of $3.50/month for 512 MB and 20 GB storage. By comparison, Digital Ocean's cheapest droplet starts at $5.

[MaxPicAxe]

I like that there is no sponsorship here, the video is much more genuine. And I was considering vultr but it seemed to good to be through, didn't expect to come across it here again, so I'll definitely look into that more.

[shamilmammadov]

Thank you so much! I have started my own full stack project and your advices helped me a lot!

[jeordincallister]

Awesome video!

I personally love netlify as well for static sites.

Dropping docker containers onto digital ocean has been really nice as well.

[xggbrnr]

"Had a weird sore throat problem..."

This video was posted on Jay Z's birthday, on December 4th. Coronavirus only hit 4 months later. The last United States president was the 44th. Jay Z's latest solo album was 4:44. Ben is in the Illuminati. He was dropping hints the whole time.

[johnfisher]

Bro you are the king for this lol. I swear you can't find this information anywhere else

[simjans]

Self hosting is pretty easy and you can do it using an old computer lying around at your home. It doesn't scale very well, but for small proofs of concept, it's the best bang for the buck.

[lloyd_jvr]

These type of videos are gold please make more of these