[erlang-questions] setting up a VPS for dedicated erlang server

[Oleksii Semilietov]

I believe Ansible the simplest way to do it.  It much simpler than Chef or
Puppet and works just on top of ssh.

Also, in Haskel community quite popular Nix (https://nixos.org/nix/) with
NixOps.
I played with it few month ago and I think it worth to play with.
I implemented simple Cowboy web application, then wrapped it as Nix package
and module where I creating systemd service on port 80 and start it.
Samples how to get it with Erlang could be found in my playground repo:
https://github.com/spylik/zlr-nix

But sure, Ansible is much simple.

Cheers


On 1 March 2017 at 13:28, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:

> Thanks for all your reply - I shall choose one of these and give it a try.
> It seems there is a lot of choice.
>
> Next problem.
>
> Given that I have decided on a VPS and payed the $$$ - what I now have
> is a raw machine and some kind of admin interface.
>
> The admin interface will (I guess) allow choice of an OS and set up a few
> basic things - at the end of which I assume I can do an SSH login and then
> I'm free to play.
>
> The next step is that I want to setup a whole load of things to make the
> machine
> minimally useful - install Erlang etc.
>
> All the installation commands and paths and environment variables and so
> will depend upon my choice of OS - it would be nice to just run a local
> script (on my machine at home) that automates as much as possible of this.
>
> But what I'd prefer to do is abstract away from the package manager and say
> Locally
>
>     $ remote_install <my VPS> erlang
>
> If my remote machine was a linux machine this might cause an 'apt get
> command'
> to be issued remotely - if the remote machine was windows it would do
> a chocolatey command - it it were a mac it would do a brew command
>
> Is there anything remotely like this???
>
> Has anybody any advice on the best way to proceed. Or do I have to write
> a long 'rsh' script :-(
>
> (And no I'm not looking for an expensive tool that does *everything* and
> has
> a 400 page manual - just something simple)
>
> Cheers
>
> /Joe
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Hugo Mills <hugo@REDACTED> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 10:24:39AM +0000, Igor Clark wrote:
> >>> Bit late to this party but I really like https://www.scaleway.com/ -
> >>> they're European (Paris/Amsterdam), and they provide cheap,
> >>> decent-spec VPSs, as well as their "Bare metal" range which is
> >>> own-design, custom-build, multi-tenant hardware. I use one with
> >>> 4-core/8GB/50GBSSD for €11.99/month. And you get unmetered bandwidth
> >>> at a decent fixed rate (300mbps on my package), so you don't get
> >>> out-of-control bandwidth charge horror stories. And no, I don't work
> >>> there, I just think they're really good :-)
> >>
> >>    I'll second Scaleway. It's Just Worked for me.
> >>
> >>    The other recommendation I've got is a small company called Bitfolk
> >> (http://bitfolk.com). More expensive than many of the larger
> >> operators, but the quality of the support is superb. (Disclaimer: I've
> >> known the owner of the company for many years; I own two Bitfolk VMs
> >> and manage a third).
> >>
> >>    Hugo.
> >>
> >>> On 28/02/2017 23:52, Nathaniel Waisbrot wrote:
> >>> >>In my experience cheap VPS services tend to be flaky. Amazon offers
> EC2 instance for free for one year. I doubt you can get a more reliable
> setup for the price.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >The free tier is nice if you're interested in getting into Amazon
> (it's a frequently requested resume item). But I used the "free" tier,
> thought I was being careful, and got slapped with $60 in charges from
> network traffic before I could shut things down. There is no way to tell
> Amazon "I would rather go offline than pay $x", so a misconfigured cron job
> or traffic spike (DDoS?) that happens while you're asleep is basically
> guaranteed to cost you.
> >>> >
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