<story><title>What One-person SaaS Healthchecks.io uses for hosting, hardware and software</title><url>https://blog.healthchecks.io/2022/02/healthchecks-io-hosting-setup-2022-edition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>altdataseller</author><text>That fancy devops&amp;#x2F;containers tooling is easier to maintain and work on vs running on bare metal servers.</text></item><item><author>BilalBudhani</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m someone who likes configuring &amp;amp; running my own servers, it is always a pleasure reading how others small &amp;#x2F; solo businesses are running their show.&lt;p&gt;It is so cool to see one-person SaaS business running on old school bare metal servers without needing any fancy devOps &amp;#x2F; containerize tooling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curun1r</author><text>I think you and the people disagreeing with you are both right, in a sense. These tools can absolutely simplify and improve even a small deployment…for someone with significant experience using them. But there’s a lot of learning that has to happen to get to that level of experience. And for a solo operator or small team without that experience, investing that time into learning may not be the best investment.&lt;p&gt;You see this contextual disagreement a ton here on HN. Those who gave taken the time to learn these tools and have practical experience using them for real deployments see the alternative as primitive, error prone and fundamentally limiting. Those without the experience see the tools as overly-complex distractions. Both are true, depending on your situation. Like almost all tech decisions, there are no universally correct answers. The best decisions are those tailored to the specific circumstances.</text></comment>
<story><title>What One-person SaaS Healthchecks.io uses for hosting, hardware and software</title><url>https://blog.healthchecks.io/2022/02/healthchecks-io-hosting-setup-2022-edition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>altdataseller</author><text>That fancy devops&amp;#x2F;containers tooling is easier to maintain and work on vs running on bare metal servers.</text></item><item><author>BilalBudhani</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m someone who likes configuring &amp;amp; running my own servers, it is always a pleasure reading how others small &amp;#x2F; solo businesses are running their show.&lt;p&gt;It is so cool to see one-person SaaS business running on old school bare metal servers without needing any fancy devOps &amp;#x2F; containerize tooling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dolmen</author><text>When there are just 9 servers and a single developer like in the article your opinion doesn&amp;#x27;t matter.</text></comment>