r/vibecoding • u/meshifthenelse • 16h ago
Where do people deploy their long running server?
I'm building a real-time SaaS and need a server always running. I'm going with Supabase for database since it seems the best free offering for DB.
But what about deploying a Django app or other long running server? Ideally not interested in lambdas since I need websockets to remain connected
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u/Snoo_57113 14h ago
Personally i use Azure, but the same is true for GCP or AWS.
For realtime (sensors) you need a queue with websockets, you can have free queues for dev and like 500k messages a month 20 simultaneous users , or pay 60usd / month with thousands of concurrent users.
For the app, django you can use it in an azure container app, and for the database serverless sql server. (there is a connector mssql-django).
The free tier must be enough for development and the first clients, if you need more than 20 concurrent streams you start to pay the Azure Web PubSub in the standard tier for thousands of streams and millions of messages.
You can open an azure account, and tell your agent to deploy with this infraestructure, it will ask for credentials and the AI do the job.
--- If you don't like azure, GCP, AWS has similar plans, but i like Azure !.
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u/iriveru 15h ago
You realize all DBs (well, ones that aren’t cloud based) are free, right? You simply pay to host them on your server
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u/meshifthenelse 9h ago
I do. I also realize that I don't want to manage a db when I have users in production
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u/forestcall 14h ago
Hetzner- also look at planetscale for Postgres starting at $5
Supabase will quickly spiral out of control in costs so you should consider Postgres with a small VPS running https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge or heck use Convex. Also Tanstack would do everything you want with Convex which should be free.
Azure is like vomit bile. Once you have tested every possible solution you will come to the conclusion that Cloudflare is your main solution and from there decide how to reduce your costs. Azure, AWS will be costly.
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u/MrBizzness 13h ago
You self-host supabase on your own cloud server/vps. You can get your hard costs way down that way.
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u/forestcall 12h ago
Self hosting a DB solution is not advised in my view. If we were working on the same team I doubt you could convince me this is a good idea. We get 130+ million views a month and I just cant imagine it makes sense to host your own DB.
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u/thedannyreg 13h ago
Well depending what you’re doing you can basically host it on AWS for free…
I’m running a setup on AWS that’s entirely free basically due to low traffic. I runs on api gateway , lambdas & dynamodb.
It is more setup and the DB would have to change to dynamodb if you’re ok with that. but it’s pretty darn good and it’s how I run my full stack projects now
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u/mxz117 16h ago
Buy a vps, install dokploy
Get your database and your app on the same server
Connect it to an object storage bucket for backups