Deployment Solutions

Infrastructure as a service:

• AWS

• GCP

• Azure

Platform as a service:

• Heroku (Best Always Free Tier with both DB and Compute)

• AWS EBS

• Render (Startup out of Stripe that is excellent combo of cheap/easy, no free tier rn)

Static Site Servers:

• Vercel

• Netlify

• Surge

AWS(iass) vs Heroku Platform as a service(pass)

Costs for Heroku can be about 3x, but as easy as a git push and many additional apps, as easy as increasing number of dynos

Questions to Ask

• Timed Jobs Seperate?

• Analytics

  • Google Analytics?

  • Logging?

  • Usage Stats

• Database

  • Service

  • Capacity

  • Backups

• Server Running

  • Frontend Serving ?

  • Nginx, load balancing?

  • Backend

  • Autoscaling? Hanlding load spikes

  • Auto restart

• HTTPs certificate?

• Continuous Deployment?, Github hooks?