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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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Upgrading in a few commands

By Joris Berthelot Published February 16th 2020 Tagged docker, rancheros, digital-ocean, self-hosting, blog, devops, container, deployment, english, migration, news, productivity, protip, reverse-proxy, server, upgrade

It has been over a year now that I migrated my 2 blogs on full Docker-hosting and I wanted it to be as simple as possible for several reasons:

  • Docker is easy to work with and to maintain
  • Everything is Dockerizable
  • I don't want to spend more than an hour every month or so to upgrade my stacks

At work, we previously used CoreOS to deploy a fleet of Dockerized apps but it was hard to maintain but more specifically, CoreOS is designed for distributed apps, which is not the case of this blog.

So, I searched for a simpler

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