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DigitalOcean to Fly.io

By Joris Berthelot Published November 5th 2022 Tagged blog, cloud, cloud computing, container, deployment, docker, english, install, migration, news, productivity, self-hosting

Hello folks,

In the pursuit of saving more and more money to run my websites, I recently switched this blog to Fly.io. A pretty neat developer-oriented hosting solution that has a fabulous free tier and bills extra as you go.

It's been out there since 2017 but only found out recently. Thanks to @Chris from Servers For Hackers!

Last time, I was very happy to announce that my hosting costs were around $5-6 a month, while now it's very close to $0.

The solution I had in mind was to convert my Ghost blogs into static websites, using Hugo

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Cross-region & cross-account AWS resources Terraform planning

By Joris Berthelot Published September 30th 2020 Tagged terraform, amazon aws, aws, aws ecs, deployment, work, trick, sys-admin, server, s3, protip, howto, hint, devops, development, code, english, infrastructure, cloud, cloud computing

Hey, it's been a while, right?

Lately, I'm leading some big changes in our infrastrure since I'm wrapping a Blue/Green deployment into another one. Uh?

Long story short: our product runs on AWS ECS Docker containers, and because we have one sub-domain per app instance, we use Apache wildcard sub-domains. Meaning a single container handles traffic from many clients/instances. We already have a Blue/Green deployment process in place but at the Docker container level, not at the client level. The idea is to entirely duplicate the whole stack (with all its flaws) and a sub-domain pointing to

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