Ludicrous Node Services environments 2021

[Apple]

@Mozzi

how do you know when to chose a managed database or not

You know you want a managed database when you don't have a backup & restore strategy

@Apple

if the VPS crashes due to a hardware fault and you have to recover a broken database - Docker-Machine by itself will not save you as it does not know how to recover a broken database, it only knows how to run it.

When using shared hosting, recovering a broken database is someone else’s job - even if it just means recovering from a backup of the previous day.

Wrote some fairly lengthy opinions here:

Docker Machines good for Non-SysAdmins?

True, it seems to be the “Wappler” way of deploying stuff. That being said, it’s worth mentioning Docker-Machine is deprecated, so it’ll be up to Wappler to fix stuff if it breaks. Right, you get root access with VPS servers, which includes DigitalOcean and Hetzner. Right, as a system administrator you’re responsible for applying security updates and such. You could also configure the server to regularly apply updates by itself (unattended updates). Prefer not to comment on this portion o…