I want to have an website with frontend React and backend Express plus MySql available on a top-level domain address. I would really appreciate your support as I feel a bit lost with all opportunities and no guidance in how to do this. I know how to create a react app and I worked with express, mysql, git / github before. I also had a php website hostet before.
I wrote some code, but before I get too far, I am wondering about ...
How to set up this project on my local machine a professional way, so I can deploy it later?
Which cloud provider / hoster can you recommend?
Do I have to handle all three components separatly or can I wrap it up somehow?
Which tools do I need?
I tried to find cloud providers and tutorials but I got lost.
HI im very new to back end and Im learning aqueduct since I know dart programming. My question is how can I deploy the aqueduct to my webserver? I have a hosting plan to a2hosting which Im currently using for my wordpress site and I wonder if I can deploy my dart server to cpanel so I can use them as a backend to my flutter app? Thanks for any answer!
It depends on many factors.
Generally I'd say "no can do".
Get a VPS and host it there.
It depends on if your cpanel hoster has access via ssh enabled, which they usually don't. But even then I'm confident the hoster won't allow long running apps on his shared hosting server.
Dart has to be installed on the host, which is usually not the case on shared hosting servers
You need some kind of external oauth2 service
You need a postgresql database server, which cpanel provides but your hoster might not
Aqueduct official deployment guides are found on the their official site.
No you cannot install dart sdk on a2hosting shared hosting plan. Even if they give you SSH access, you will not have enough permission to install DART SDK. But you can deploy you app on heroku for free. You will get enough resources to run your app. You can upgrade your plan later according to your needs.
Check the heroku documention to deploy aqueduct app
Deploying an Aqueduct Application on Heroku
I currently have a reseller account through Hostgator and am wondering if API Platform can be deployed there. The documentation states "The server part of API Platform is basically a standard Symfony application, that you can also easily deploy on your own servers." but it's not clear to me whether or not the server part (e.g., /api) can be broken out of Docker and installed in a standard LAMP lamp env. It seems feasible but I'm not certain it would work like that.
Any guidance will be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Yes it can! The Docker integration is 100% optional.
Because the content of this directory is actually just the Symfony Skeleton + the configuration for the API Platform bundle, you can just upload the content of the api/ directory on any LAMP server. Set the appropriate environment variables (for instance the RDBMS), and you’re done.
I'm checking out my options on deploying meteor apps.
I already saw the problems of deploying meteor apps built on my mac, to remote Ubuntu server and other versioning issues, i believe more to come.
meteor-up looks like a good solution, but can it be used alongside with demeteorizer
to handle dependency management?
Would that have any advantage over packaging with demeteorizing, and deploying with some othe/custom script?
You don't have to use demeteorizer, if you're using mup. You can configure npm binary dependencies in the config.
Personally I use mup in production, for over 10 different apps, and it even handles multi-node deploys nicely.
I recommend using something like chef to setup your environments, and then mup for meteor/node/mongo/phantom.
I love Heroku but I would prefer to develop in Scala rather than Ruby on Rails.
Does anyone know of any services like Heroku that work with Scala?
UPDATE: Heroku now officially supports Scala - see answers below for links
As of October 3rd 2011, Heroku officially supports Scala, Akka and sbt.
http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/10/3/scala/
Update
Heroku has just announced support for Java.
Update 2
Heroku has just announced support for Scala
Also
Check out Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.
To deploy Java applications using
Elastic Beanstalk, you simply:
Create your application as you
normally would using any editor or IDE
(e.g. Eclipse).
Package your
deployable code into a standard Java
Web Application Archive (WAR file).
Upload your WAR file to Elastic
Beanstalk using the AWS Management
Console, the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse,
the web service APIs, or the Command
Line Tools.
Deploy your application.
Behind the scenes, Elastic Beanstalk
handles the provisioning of a load
balancer and the deployment of your
WAR file to one or more EC2 instances
running the Apache Tomcat application
server.
Within a few minutes you will
be able to access your application at
a customized URL (e.g.
http://myapp.elasticbeanstalk.com/).
Once an application is running,
Elastic Beanstalk provides several
management features such as:
Easily deploy new application versions
to running environments (or rollback
to a previous version).
Access
built-in CloudWatch monitoring metrics
such as average CPU utilization,
request count, and average latency.
Receive e-mail notifications through
Amazon Simple Notification Service
when application health changes or
application servers are added or
removed.
Access Tomcat server log
files without needing to login to the
application servers.
Quickly restart
the application servers on all EC2
instances with a single command.
Another strong contender is Cloud Foundry. One of the nice features of Cloud Foundry is the ability to have a local version of "the cloud" running on your laptop so you can deploy and test offline.
I started working on the exact same thing as what you said a few weeks ago. I use Lift, which is a great framework and has a lot of potential, on top of Linux chroot environment.
I'm done with a demo version, but Linux chroot is not that stable (nor secure), so I'm now switching to FreeBSD jail on Amazon EC2, and hopefully it'll be done soon.
http://lifthub.net/
There are also other Java hosting environment including VMForce mentioned above.
If you are looking for a custom setup which also has the ease of deployment that heroku offers: http://dotcloud.com. They are invite only right now but I was given access in under three days. I am working on a Lift/MongoDB project there and it works well.
Off the top of my head, only VMForce comes to mind, but its not available yet. This will be a Java-oriented service, so that probably means you'll have to spend a wee bit of time figuring out how to package the app.
For more discussion, there was a debate about this in 2008.
I'm not entirely sure if it's really suitable or not, but people have deployed Scala applications to Google App Engine, for example http://mawson.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/first-steps-with-scala-on-google-app-engine/
Actually you can run scala on heroku right now. You don't believe it?
https://github.com/lstoll/heroku-playframework-scala
I'm not sure the tricks lstoll has used are legit but using the
new cedar platform where you can run custom processes and some
ingenious Gemfile hacking he has managed to bootstrap the Java
play platform into a process. Seems to work as he has a live
site running a test page.
Stax cloud service offers preconfigured lift project skeleton. Also, there is a tutorial on how to deploy lift project to appengine.