Hey WIP, Bad day today. My Heroku console has 1803 critical errors :( Are critical errors common? Looking at the specifics: a) I'm using 1X professional heroku dynos. Surely they can handle this level of traffic? b) I made a big mistake with images. Trying to write them to Heroku. Hopefu...

Currently using Heroku and serving the files like so: app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, "public"))); I've looked into reverse proxy servers before but always found it complicated. . But from what I've read it would help out a lot. Maybe its time to make the leap. How simple is Nginx ...

Making a dating site. It's nearly done, except I haven't sorted messaging between users yet. I've got two / three choices: a) NOT live messaging. Messages POST to backend. Requires a page refresh to display new messages. b) LIVE messaging! Making use of web sockets. I would also have to sav...

I want to make a blog which will use /blog route & use Gatsby which will render a complete static page & then my other route /apps which will have all my apps & their server side logic like Payment on the same domain. Can I make this work like that ? One subdomain renders static pages & another r...

Making a dating site. Imagine James "hearts" Sally's profile. I want a simple notification for Sally next time she logs in. Like Indie Hackers, where a little red number by your profile. My current idea is having both: {hearts: [james, fred, george]} {notifications: [james]} objects in th...

What's the preferred free tier of the cloud services right now? More context: I need to run a basic web UI + API server (which could go to sleep if there's no traffic, but hopefully not!), a Postgres instance, and a constant background daemon.

My DigitalOcean droplet is getting an upgrade so I’m considering running more services on it. Right now I just run an IRC web client for myself and host some websites. Had previously ran OpenVPN on it but didn’t find the whole setup as bulletproof as using a third-party.