Need some vibe.d hosting advice

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On Friday, 11 August 2017 at 13:06:54 UTC, aberba wrote:
> So I'm into this platform with a vibe.d api server + back-end 
> and I'm confused/curious to know the hosting package to use. I 
> will have a lot of images uploaded by users.
>
> 1. For sometime, I've been looking at heroku which is fine with 
> its load balancer, easily scaling etc. But the hosting cost for 
> a startup is high and (most importantly) requires an external 
> storage either s3 or cloudinary which no lib in D currently 
> exist for them (stable).
>
> 2. Get an EC2 instance from Amazon or Vultr and install 
> everything yourself and save images on disc (potentially 
> problematic). This can not be scaled easily
>
> 3. use a self-hosted PaaS like Flynn (aka self hosted heroku) 
> ...but you still have to store images in an object storage and 
> a D api is needed for this. Which links back to point 1 but 
> less costly and more control.
>
>
> How would you do it if you were using vibe.d?
>
> (With node.js, all these are solved).

heroku is a bit more expensive. for starters, you could have a 
vps on digitalocean and let your application run on there.

google cloud is an excellent platform that i run my company on. 
it is a lot cheaper than aws.