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What do you use to quickly throw up small side projects?

2 pointsby _augustabout 10 years ago
What is your approach for throwing up quick scripts/apis/web pages, and be able to support different languages (node, go, rails). Seems a bit overkill to create a new environment for each item with something like Heroku. I am thinking a VPS (+ Docker?) but would love to know how you go about this.

5 comments

eswatabout 10 years ago
Most of my throw-away projects are entirely frontend, so I just clone my static-site generator* – just a grunt tool that’s more flexible than Jekyll for my needs – and push the results to a new GitHub repo to be served by Pages. All repos are then available at eswat.ca&#x2F;&lt;repo-name&gt;. Easy.<p>* <a href="https://github.com/eswat/cektop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eswat&#x2F;cektop</a>
RandomBKabout 10 years ago
It depends on the project. I tend to go with a digitalocean vps managed through cfengine3. I have a default template that I can set up quickly and change to match what I need.
posnetabout 10 years ago
I have openstack installed on an old sever, I just throw up images when I need them.
dilatedmindabout 10 years ago
i rent an affordable dedicated machine to host go node and c# webapps on
juanuysabout 10 years ago
EC2 cluster + Tutum.