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Alternatives to DigitalOcean

Linode, Vultr, Heroku, Microsoft Azure, and Bitnami are the most popular alternatives and competitors to DigitalOcean.
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What is DigitalOcean and what are its top alternatives?

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Top Alternatives to DigitalOcean

  • Linode
    Linode

    Get a server running in minutes with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location. ...

  • Vultr
    Vultr

    Strategically located in 16 datacenters around the globe and provides frictionless provisioning of public cloud, storage and single-tenant bare metal. ...

  • Heroku
    Heroku

    Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling. ...

  • Microsoft Azure
    Microsoft Azure

    Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment. ...

  • Bitnami
    Bitnami

    Our library provides trusted virtual machines for every major development stack and open source server application, ready to run in your infrastructure. ...

  • Amazon EC2
    Amazon EC2

    It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. ...

  • Amazon Web Service
    Amazon Web Service

    It is a comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. ...

  • Google Cloud Platform
    Google Cloud Platform

    It helps you build what's next with secure infrastructure, developer tools, APIs, data analytics and machine learning. It is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube. ...

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Linode

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PROS OF LINODE
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    Extremely reliable
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    Good value
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    Great customer support
  • 58
    Easy to configure
  • 37
    Great documentation
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    Servers across the world
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    Managed/hosted DNS service
  • 15
    Simple ui
  • 11
    Network and CPU usage graphs
  • 7
    IPv6 support
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    Multiple IP address support
  • 3
    Good price, good cusomter sevice
  • 3
    Ssh access
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    IP address fail over support
  • 2
    SSH root access
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    Great performance compared to EC2 or DO
  • 1
    It runs apps with speed
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    Best customizable VPS
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    Latest kernels
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    Cheapest
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    Ssds
CONS OF LINODE
  • 2
    No "floating IP" support

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Kumar Gaurav
DevOps Engineer at CoRover Private Limited · | 2 upvotes · 39K views
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Vultr

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PROS OF VULTR
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    <a href="https://hostandprotect.com/">secure</a>
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    Affordable
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    Cloud Based
CONS OF VULTR
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    Paul Whittemore
    Developer and Owner at Appurist Software · | 4 upvotes · 147.6K views

    For those needing hosting on Windows or Windows Server too (and avoiding licensing hurdles), both Vultr and Amazon LightSail offer compelling choices, depending on how much compute power you need. Don't underestimate Amazon LightSail, especially for smaller or starting projects, but Vultr also offers an incremental $16 Windows option on top of their standard compute offerings.

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    Heroku logo

    Heroku

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    Build, deliver, monitor and scale web apps and APIs with a trail blazing developer experience.
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    PROS OF HEROKU
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      Easy deployment
    • 459
      Free for side projects
    • 374
      Huge time-saver
    • 348
      Simple scaling
    • 261
      Low devops skills required
    • 190
      Easy setup
    • 174
      Add-ons for almost everything
    • 153
      Beginner friendly
    • 150
      Better for startups
    • 133
      Low learning curve
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      Postgres hosting
    • 41
      Easy to add collaborators
    • 30
      Faster development
    • 24
      Awesome documentation
    • 19
      Simple rollback
    • 19
      Focus on product, not deployment
    • 15
      Natural companion for rails development
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      Easy integration
    • 12
      Great customer support
    • 8
      GitHub integration
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      Painless & well documented
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      No-ops
    • 4
      I love that they make it free to launch a side project
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      Free
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      Great UI
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      Just works
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      PostgreSQL forking and following
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      MySQL extension
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      Security
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      Able to host stuff good like Discord Bot
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    CONS OF HEROKU
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      Super expensive
    • 9
      Not a whole lot of flexibility
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      No usable MySQL option
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      Storage
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      Low performance on free tier
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      24/7 support is $1,000 per month

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    Russel Werner
    Lead Engineer at StackShare · | 32 upvotes · 1.7M views

    StackShare Feed is built entirely with React, Glamorous, and Apollo. One of our objectives with the public launch of the Feed was to enable a Server-side rendered (SSR) experience for our organic search traffic. When you visit the StackShare Feed, and you aren't logged in, you are delivered the Trending feed experience. We use an in-house Node.js rendering microservice to generate this HTML. This microservice needs to run and serve requests independent of our Rails web app. Up until recently, we had a mono-repo with our Rails and React code living happily together and all served from the same web process. In order to deploy our SSR app into a Heroku environment, we needed to split out our front-end application into a separate repo in GitHub. The driving factor in this decision was mostly due to limitations imposed by Heroku specifically with how processes can't communicate with each other. A new SSR app was created in Heroku and linked directly to the frontend repo so it stays in-sync with changes.

    Related to this, we need a way to "deploy" our frontend changes to various server environments without building & releasing the entire Ruby application. We built a hybrid Amazon S3 Amazon CloudFront solution to host our Webpack bundles. A new CircleCI script builds the bundles and uploads them to S3. The final step in our rollout is to update some keys in Redis so our Rails app knows which bundles to serve. The result of these efforts were significant. Our frontend team now moves independently of our backend team, our build & release process takes only a few minutes, we are now using an edge CDN to serve JS assets, and we have pre-rendered React pages!

    #StackDecisionsLaunch #SSR #Microservices #FrontEndRepoSplit

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    Simon Reymann
    Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH · | 30 upvotes · 6M views

    Our whole DevOps stack consists of the following tools:

    • GitHub (incl. GitHub Pages/Markdown for Documentation, GettingStarted and HowTo's) for collaborative review and code management tool
    • Respectively Git as revision control system
    • SourceTree as Git GUI
    • Visual Studio Code as IDE
    • CircleCI for continuous integration (automatize development process)
    • Prettier / TSLint / ESLint as code linter
    • SonarQube as quality gate
    • Docker as container management (incl. Docker Compose for multi-container application management)
    • VirtualBox for operating system simulation tests
    • Kubernetes as cluster management for docker containers
    • Heroku for deploying in test environments
    • nginx as web server (preferably used as facade server in production environment)
    • SSLMate (using OpenSSL) for certificate management
    • Amazon EC2 (incl. Amazon S3) for deploying in stage (production-like) and production environments
    • PostgreSQL as preferred database system
    • Redis as preferred in-memory database/store (great for caching)

    The main reason we have chosen Kubernetes over Docker Swarm is related to the following artifacts:

    • Key features: Easy and flexible installation, Clear dashboard, Great scaling operations, Monitoring is an integral part, Great load balancing concepts, Monitors the condition and ensures compensation in the event of failure.
    • Applications: An application can be deployed using a combination of pods, deployments, and services (or micro-services).
    • Functionality: Kubernetes as a complex installation and setup process, but it not as limited as Docker Swarm.
    • Monitoring: It supports multiple versions of logging and monitoring when the services are deployed within the cluster (Elasticsearch/Kibana (ELK), Heapster/Grafana, Sysdig cloud integration).
    • Scalability: All-in-one framework for distributed systems.
    • Other Benefits: Kubernetes is backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), huge community among container orchestration tools, it is an open source and modular tool that works with any OS.
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    Microsoft Azure logo

    Microsoft Azure

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    PROS OF MICROSOFT AZURE
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      Scales well and quite easy
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      Can use .Net or open source tools
    • 81
      Startup friendly
    • 73
      Startup plans via BizSpark
    • 62
      High performance
    • 38
      Wide choice of services
    • 32
      Low cost
    • 32
      Lots of integrations
    • 31
      Reliability
    • 19
      Twillio & Github are directly accessible
    • 13
      RESTful API
    • 10
      PaaS
    • 10
      Enterprise Grade
    • 10
      Startup support
    • 8
      DocumentDB
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      In person support
    • 6
      Free for students
    • 6
      Service Bus
    • 6
      Virtual Machines
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      Redis Cache
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      It rocks
    • 4
      Storage, Backup, and Recovery
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      Infrastructure Services
    • 4
      SQL Databases
    • 4
      CDN
    • 3
      Integration
    • 3
      Scheduler
    • 3
      Preview Portal
    • 3
      HDInsight
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      Built on Node.js
    • 3
      Big Data
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      BizSpark 60k Azure Benefit
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      IaaS
    • 2
      Backup
    • 2
      Open cloud
    • 2
      Web
    • 2
      SaaS
    • 2
      Big Compute
    • 2
      Mobile
    • 2
      Media
    • 2
      Dev-Test
    • 2
      Storage
    • 2
      StorSimple
    • 2
      Machine Learning
    • 2
      Stream Analytics
    • 2
      Data Factory
    • 2
      Event Hubs
    • 2
      Virtual Network
    • 2
      ExpressRoute
    • 2
      Traffic Manager
    • 2
      Media Services
    • 2
      BizTalk Services
    • 2
      Site Recovery
    • 2
      Active Directory
    • 2
      Multi-Factor Authentication
    • 2
      Visual Studio Online
    • 2
      Application Insights
    • 2
      Automation
    • 2
      Operational Insights
    • 2
      Key Vault
    • 2
      Infrastructure near your customers
    • 2
      Easy Deployment
    • 1
      Enterprise customer preferences
    • 1
      Documentation
    • 1
      Security
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      Best cloud platfrom
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      Easy and fast to start with
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      Remote Debugging
    CONS OF MICROSOFT AZURE
    • 6
      Confusing UI
    • 2
      Expensive plesk on Azure

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    Omar Mehilba
    Co-Founder and COO at Magalix · | 19 upvotes · 289.3K views

    We are hardcore Kubernetes users and contributors. We loved the automation it provides. However, as our team grew and added more clusters and microservices, capacity and resources management becomes a massive pain to us. We started suffering from a lot of outages and unexpected behavior as we promote our code from dev to production environments. Luckily we were working on our AI-powered tools to understand different dependencies, predict usage, and calculate the right resources and configurations that should be applied to our infrastructure and microservices. We dogfooded our agent (http://github.com/magalixcorp/magalix-agent) and were able to stabilize as the #autopilot continuously recovered any miscalculations we made or because of unexpected changes in workloads. We are open sourcing our agent in a few days. Check it out and let us know what you think! We run workloads on Microsoft Azure Google Kubernetes Engine and Amazon EC2 and we're all about Go and Python!

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    Kestas Barzdaitis
    Entrepreneur & Engineer · | 16 upvotes · 595.7K views

    CodeFactor being a #SAAS product, our goal was to run on a cloud-native infrastructure since day one. We wanted to stay product focused, rather than having to work on the infrastructure that supports the application. We needed a cloud-hosting provider that would be reliable, economical and most efficient for our product.

    CodeFactor.io aims to provide an automated and frictionless code review service for software developers. That requires agility, instant provisioning, autoscaling, security, availability and compliance management features. We looked at the top three #IAAS providers that take up the majority of market share: Amazon's Amazon EC2 , Microsoft's Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Engine.

    AWS has been available since 2006 and has developed the most extensive services ant tools variety at a massive scale. Azure and GCP are about half the AWS age, but also satisfied our technical requirements.

    It is worth noting that even though all three providers support Docker containerization services, GCP has the most robust offering due to their investments in Kubernetes. Also, if you are a Microsoft shop, and develop in .NET - Visual Studio Azure shines at integration there and all your existing .NET code works seamlessly on Azure. All three providers have serverless computing offerings (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions). Additionally, all three providers have machine learning tools, but GCP appears to be the most developer-friendly, intuitive and complete when it comes to #Machinelearning and #AI.

    The prices between providers are competitive across the board. For our requirements, AWS would have been the most expensive, GCP the least expensive and Azure was in the middle. Plus, if you #Autoscale frequently with large deltas, note that Azure and GCP have per minute billing, where AWS bills you per hour. We also applied for the #Startup programs with all three providers, and this is where Azure shined. While AWS and GCP for startups would have covered us for about one year of infrastructure costs, Azure Sponsorship would cover about two years of CodeFactor's hosting costs. Moreover, Azure Team was terrific - I felt that they wanted to work with us where for AWS and GCP we were just another startup.

    In summary, we were leaning towards GCP. GCP's advantages in containerization, automation toolset, #Devops mindset, and pricing were the driving factors there. Nevertheless, we could not say no to Azure's financial incentives and a strong sense of partnership and support throughout the process.

    Bottom line is, IAAS offerings with AWS, Azure, and GCP are evolving fast. At CodeFactor, we aim to be platform agnostic where it is practical and retain the flexibility to cherry-pick the best products across providers.

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    Bitnami

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      Cloud Management
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      Amazon EC2

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        Scalability
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        Easy management
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        Low cost
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        Auto-scaling
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        Market leader
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        Backed by amazon
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        Reliable
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        Free tier
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        Easy management, scalability
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        Flexible
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        Easy to Start
      • 9
        Widely used
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        Web-scale
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        Elastic
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        Node.js API
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        Industry Standard
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        Lots of configuration options
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        Extremely simple to use
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        Amazing for individuals
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        All the Open Source CLI tools you could want.
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        Simpler to understand and learn
      CONS OF AMAZON EC2
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        Ui could use a lot of work
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        High learning curve when compared to PaaS
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        Extremely poor CPU performance

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      Ashish Singh
      Tech Lead, Big Data Platform at Pinterest · | 38 upvotes · 1.7M views

      To provide employees with the critical need of interactive querying, we’ve worked with Presto, an open-source distributed SQL query engine, over the years. Operating Presto at Pinterest’s scale has involved resolving quite a few challenges like, supporting deeply nested and huge thrift schemas, slow/ bad worker detection and remediation, auto-scaling cluster, graceful cluster shutdown and impersonation support for ldap authenticator.

      Our infrastructure is built on top of Amazon EC2 and we leverage Amazon S3 for storing our data. This separates compute and storage layers, and allows multiple compute clusters to share the S3 data.

      We have hundreds of petabytes of data and tens of thousands of Apache Hive tables. Our Presto clusters are comprised of a fleet of 450 r4.8xl EC2 instances. Presto clusters together have over 100 TBs of memory and 14K vcpu cores. Within Pinterest, we have close to more than 1,000 monthly active users (out of total 1,600+ Pinterest employees) using Presto, who run about 400K queries on these clusters per month.

      Each query submitted to Presto cluster is logged to a Kafka topic via Singer. Singer is a logging agent built at Pinterest and we talked about it in a previous post. Each query is logged when it is submitted and when it finishes. When a Presto cluster crashes, we will have query submitted events without corresponding query finished events. These events enable us to capture the effect of cluster crashes over time.

      Each Presto cluster at Pinterest has workers on a mix of dedicated AWS EC2 instances and Kubernetes pods. Kubernetes platform provides us with the capability to add and remove workers from a Presto cluster very quickly. The best-case latency on bringing up a new worker on Kubernetes is less than a minute. However, when the Kubernetes cluster itself is out of resources and needs to scale up, it can take up to ten minutes. Some other advantages of deploying on Kubernetes platform is that our Presto deployment becomes agnostic of cloud vendor, instance types, OS, etc.

      #BigData #AWS #DataScience #DataEngineering

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      Simon Reymann
      Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH · | 30 upvotes · 6M views

      Our whole DevOps stack consists of the following tools:

      • GitHub (incl. GitHub Pages/Markdown for Documentation, GettingStarted and HowTo's) for collaborative review and code management tool
      • Respectively Git as revision control system
      • SourceTree as Git GUI
      • Visual Studio Code as IDE
      • CircleCI for continuous integration (automatize development process)
      • Prettier / TSLint / ESLint as code linter
      • SonarQube as quality gate
      • Docker as container management (incl. Docker Compose for multi-container application management)
      • VirtualBox for operating system simulation tests
      • Kubernetes as cluster management for docker containers
      • Heroku for deploying in test environments
      • nginx as web server (preferably used as facade server in production environment)
      • SSLMate (using OpenSSL) for certificate management
      • Amazon EC2 (incl. Amazon S3) for deploying in stage (production-like) and production environments
      • PostgreSQL as preferred database system
      • Redis as preferred in-memory database/store (great for caching)

      The main reason we have chosen Kubernetes over Docker Swarm is related to the following artifacts:

      • Key features: Easy and flexible installation, Clear dashboard, Great scaling operations, Monitoring is an integral part, Great load balancing concepts, Monitors the condition and ensures compensation in the event of failure.
      • Applications: An application can be deployed using a combination of pods, deployments, and services (or micro-services).
      • Functionality: Kubernetes as a complex installation and setup process, but it not as limited as Docker Swarm.
      • Monitoring: It supports multiple versions of logging and monitoring when the services are deployed within the cluster (Elasticsearch/Kibana (ELK), Heapster/Grafana, Sysdig cloud integration).
      • Scalability: All-in-one framework for distributed systems.
      • Other Benefits: Kubernetes is backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), huge community among container orchestration tools, it is an open source and modular tool that works with any OS.
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      Amazon Web Service

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          Google Cloud Platform

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            Good app Marketplace for Beginner and Advanced User
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            Premium tier IP address
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            Cheap
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            My days of using Firebase are over! I want to move to something scalable and possibly less cheap. In the past seven days I have done my research on what type of DB best fits my needs, and have chosen to go with the nonrelational DB; MongoDB. Although I understand it, I need help understanding how to set up the architecture. I have the client app (Flutter/ Dart) that would make HTTP requests to the web server (node/express), and from there the webserver would query data from MongoDB.

            How should I go about hosting the web server and MongoDb; do they have to be hosted together (this is where a lot of my confusion is)? Based on the research I've done, it seems like the standard practice would be to host on a VM provided by services such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, etc. If there are better ways, such as possibly self-hosting (more responsibility), should I? Anyways, I just want to confirm with a community (you guys) to make sure I do this right, all input is highly appreciated.

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            I am currently working on a long term mobile app project. Current stack: Frontend: Dart/Flutter Backend: Go, AWS Resources (AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, etc.) Since there are only two developers and we have limited time and resources, we are looking for a BAAS like Firebase or AWS Amplify to handle auth and push notifications for now. We are prioritizing developing speed so we can iterate quickly. The only problem is that AWS amplify support for flutter is in developer preview and has limited capabilities (We have tested it out in our app). Firebase is the more mature option. It has great support for flutter and has more than we need for auth, notifications, etc. My question is that, if we choose firebase, we would be stuck with using two different cloud providers. Is this bad, or is this even a problem? I am willing to change anything on the backend architecture wise, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I am somewhat unfamiliar with Google Cloud Platform. Thank you.

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