Hello everyone, As a way to pay my bills while attending university, I started a small web design business for local businesses here in Wales. Most of the time I generally just use something like Squarespace simply because it allows me to build quick simple sites, do it cheaply, fast and after goi…

Many web design companies start of with a VPS (about £30 a month) and once you get enough clients you could move up to a dedicated server :slight_smile: I’m not sure how much flexibility you get with a VPS in terms of shell access etc, so you may want to look at cloud hosting providers as that way …

Thanks man! I was looking at gigalixir earlier after finding it on the forum :slight_smile: Also thanks for editing the post to make it clearer :slight_smile:

I don’t want to be the party-pooper, but to be honest I wouldn’t want to use Elixir for a client project, unless there was a compelling reason to do so. Most of the time, a simple CMS (my preference is Statamic or similar) or even static site generator if content updates aren’t a big deal are the b…

Yeah I mentioned it would be overkill, I was just really interested about the process :slight_smile:

Personally I am not a fan of off the shelf CMS systems for client sites unless you know they are alway going to be incredibly simple - because when you want to do something custom, you either can’t or you have to learn their (usually not great) system. When your client then asks you to add somethin…

I second @AstonJ . I just watched Rob Conery’s keynote from ElixirDaze 2018 today and I think it is partly relevant to this discussion. It contains some good arguments why one would want to go with Elixir. I don’t think you should use Elixir for everything from now on. It’s good to be cautious and co…

we have a great topic created @jswny . Maybe helps you [image] Flexible Dockerized Phoenix Deployments (1.2 & 1.3) Guides/Tuts/Tips/Info Hello everyone, I recently redesigned my entire deployment process for Phoenix apps based on Docker. I really like the strategy that I c…

I’m the founder of gigalixir.com in case you have any questions or need any help. Also happy to hand out free credits to anyone who upgrades to the standard plan. Just direct message me.

I completely agree, I hate feeling hamstrung by a system, which is why I tend not to use some of the popular systems like Ghost or Wordpress. One limits you, the other forces you to wade through a lot of crap. I’ve found a nice CMS that is database-less (content stored in markdown files, config in …

I would recommend using Nanobox and Digital Ocean, which is the direction that I’m heading in. I don’t like spending much time on dev ops and Nanobox looks really good.

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we have a great topic created @jswny. Maybe helps you