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  1. Tobi @tobide ·

    Just released v0.5.0 of my django-litestream package, now compatible with Litestream 0.5.2.
    The main changes include updates to match the new Litestream CLI, and I’ve also removed the old `init` command — it turned out to be completely useless. I also removed dbs auto discovery, I don't remember why I did that initally, but it was clearly a stupid idea.

    🔗 github.com/Tobi-De/django-lite

    #django #sqlite #litestream
  2. Tobi @tobide ·

    Are there devs out there using anything other than ? If so, what and why?

    Has anyone tried and seen any benefits?

    Gunicorn is perfectly fine; I'm just curious.

    github.com/emmett-framework/gr

    #django #gunicorn #granian
  3. Tobi @tobide ·

    And one last thing, this is how I manage my backups:

    For my Django projects using SQLite (yeah, I'm seriously doing this), I use Litestream + S3.
    When I need PostgreSQL, a single PostgreSQL server + pghoard for backup on S3 (this setup is a work in progress; I haven't completely figured it out for now).

    For the other apps, when I do care about the data, I use Offen-docker (one-click CapRover deploy again) to back up the entire data volumes on S3.

    5/5

    #django #caprover #sideproject
  4. Tobi @tobide ·

    I'm sure for some medium company/startup, these platforms make sense, but for someone like me trying to hack stuff on his free time, the setup I described above makes more sense.

    4/5

    #django #caprover #sideproject
  5. Tobi @tobide ·

    I've seen a lot of enthusiasm for Fly in the Django community lately. I've tried them once. I'm sure I was doing something wrong or had a trash setup, but I was paying more than $5 for frankly less than a third of the performance I'm getting on this $5 VPS. Platforms like Fly, Vercel, Heroku offer mainly convenience over your average VPS, but I can get 80% of the convenience with CapRover.

    3/5

    #django #caprover #sideproject
  6. Tobi @tobide ·

    There is no way, no freaking way that there is a PaaS provider out there that can offer a setup that can rival my VPS with the specs I'm getting at this price. And if there is one, please, I want to know.
    The specs :

    - 4 vCPU
    - 6 GB RAM
    - 100 GB NVMe

    It's even weird that these guys can afford to be this cheap. Feels like there is something fishy going on. Maybe because of the trash UI? Anyway, I've had no issues with them for years.

    2/5

    #django #caprover #sideproject
  7. Tobi @tobide ·

    Right now I have,

    Firefly III (personal finance),
    GlitchTip (Sentry-like error tracking),
    Plausible (privacy-focused analytics),
    Uptime Kuma (uptime service),
    and a few Django side projects.

    All of these are running on a cheap ($5.5) VPS from Contabo using CapRover.

    By the way, most of the apps described above are one-click deployable.

    1/5

    #django #caprover #sideproject
  8. Tobi @tobide ·

    I haven't tried it and never had to do it, but the process described by this gentleman seems fairly easy and straightforward to me. Why are Django folks so horrified by this?

    Having this in mind makes me more eager to drop Custom User model and app for future projects, including in Falco (my project starter).
    I don't do anything with it these days (except for making login by email the default), nor do I want to mess with it.

    testdriven.io/blog/django-cust

    #dango