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[25] So, Where Do You Host Your React App?

Hosting can get overwhelming fast, because it isn’t just hosting anymore. You want something that is simple, fast, scalable, and reliable but you also want to spend your time coding and not fiddling with...


Hosting can get overwhelming fast, because it isn’t just hosting anymore. You want something that is simple, fast, scalable, and reliable but you also want to spend your time coding and not fiddling with build failures, right? In this episode we’re going to take a look at the factors involved in making hosting, devops, and CI/CD decisions and a method for developing the right solution for you.

Show Notes

  • Overview 10:16
  • Austin Experience: Hosting on Raspi
  • Thomas Experience: Geocities, Linux, PaaS, AWS/GCP
  • Factors: Team, Orchestration, etc 20:49
  • Method: start simple, build incremental 25:40
  • Recent Past Experiences: Heroku, Beanstalk, Vercel, more 36:05
  • Self Hosting/Hosting PaaS 42:28
  • Containerization 1:00:05
  • Automation: GitHub/GitLab/etc 1:10:08
  • Summary 1:23:08
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