Ask HN: How do you host your vibe coded tools/sites?

4 points by sakuraiben 42 days ago | 8 comments

I've been building a lot of tools for my company internally and have been doing a combination of self-hosting on VPS/Vercel/whatever else. Super curious how everyone is going from localhost to sharing in your team.

spaldingcactus 42 days ago |

Cloudflare workers/pages/D1/R2 works great for me on the free plan. If you’re not familiar, I typically use workers for API type stuff (including auth). D1 is database, R2 is storage (images, files?). Pages are.. pages.

dorongrinstein 42 days ago |

Many use our service https://controlplane.com - we have an MCP server that makes it trivial to ask for postgres, kafka, cassandra, mongo, cockroachdb, mysql, or many other databases. It is easy and does not limit you in terms of where you can run (any cloud, on prem), and even run multi-region and multi-cloud. I am interested to hear your experience.

saulpw 42 days ago |

I use Netlify connected to Github/Gitlab, which does a build on every commit to the main branch. For low-volume static sites (which all of mine are) this is free, fast, and convenient.

sakuraiben 42 days ago | |

what about something with a db? or auth?

saulpw 42 days ago | | |

I'm actually using Github issues as a low-volume/high-latency DB for a project right now. I use a Netlify function to do extremely simple auth and then open an issue on Github, which triggers a CI action, which appends to a .jsonl file in the repo (different branch), which triggers a Netlify build, which then serves the new jsonl file. (If the repo were public, this wouldn't even have to trigger a rebuild of the website, it could just get the .jsonl from Github directly).

It's totally hack-a-licious but it also totally works for my N<10 users.

simondanerd 42 days ago |

Cloudflare tunnels for stuff requiring an actual machine. Cloudflare or Netlify Pages for static projects (with D1 as a database when needed).