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Tuan Cao @tuancao.me · 03/01/2025

Thanks for your kind words Harison!

Tuan Cao @tuancao.me · 27/12/2024

It's been a busy years for me, my proudest achievements is 700+ stars. 😋.

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Oops. Migrating my domain to cloudflare. Mighy causing that problem 🤦‍♂️

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bsky.app/profile/tuan... There you go 😁.

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After some digging, here are a couple thing I found out 1. Network latency between vercel and my db is not that bad 2. Bottle-neck is in my query Same query for handle: mcuban.bsky.social - Vercel -> Hetzner: 600 ms - Hetzner -> Hetzner: 540ms - Local - Local: 250ms

That's a really good point. I'll give it a try 🤔. Thanks Matt.

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Haha. Thanks Seth! The fact is the Vercel one is still free for me. I still have to pay for the VPS anyway, because I host my db there. But it's definitely an option, if Vercel gonna charge me in the future.

Interesting. Thanks Leo. Probably the network latency between Vercel and Hetzner (db) is not that bad. My Hetzner instance in US, so probably network latency is not as big a deal as I thought.

Thanks Navin. Yeah that what I think should happen, since I check CPU and RAM utilization on my VPS, doesn't seem to be bottle neck and hetzner network is pretty fast. So i kinda expect to see improvement on the profile page.

But from my own testing (just using normal browser to browse) The improvement if any is negligible. I thought by moving both web app and db into same machine, latency between the 2 component will improve the load time significantly. I see that very clear on my local machine.👇

Tuan Cao @tuancao.me · 23/12/2024

Which is one faster for you? whichpack.com or beta.whichpack.com 1) whichpack.com is Hosted in Vercel 2) beta.whichpack.com is Hosted entirely on Hetzner on $5 vps Please help me test it. I thought beta will be faster since the web app is closer to the db (also host on the same instance)? But 👇

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That really performant 🤯. I guess you can scale it down even more?

Really nice! Just wondering, how much on-going devops and maintanance works involves?

How much do you pay for your beefy instance? And how much maintenance work involved? 😁

Migrated my db server from Neon (19$/month) to a VPS running on Hetzner ($5) month. Data migration is done and not that difficult. Server load is pretty good. Let's see how it goes when more users visit whichpack.com #buildinpublic #dev

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Hehe. Not gonna use it for coding yet. It’s for dev ops stuff and some light text editing 😁.

Ooohh. Really nice Xmas gift 😆! What the specs, tell us!

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What your gaming years look like? Here is my Steam Wrap of 2024 #gaming #wrap #steam What your favorite games?

The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide To Learn And Master Vim

The awesome and really intuitive video by Josean Martinez He explain all the key concept in such an easy to understand 🤯 www.youtube.com/watch?v=80mW... For someone who prefer reading checkout this one www.josean.com/posts/vim-es...

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YouTube video by Josean Martinez

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30 Vim commands you NEED TO KNOW (in just 10 minutes)

For shorter and also highly informative checkout this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSlr... Only 10 minutes but pack with lot of awesome vim tips

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YouTube video by typecraft

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First of all try build in Tutorial go with Vim or NeoVim For vim it's `$ vimtutor` For NeoVim it's: `$ nvim` then type :Tutor (uppercase T) It only take 30 minutes but you familiarize yourself with very basic stuff

Kinda run down into a rabbit holes today, had a lot of fun learning about Vim, NeoVim. Here are a couple really good resource I found 👇

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Yeah this is a must read for all react dev. I refer to it less and less. But definitely a good reference.

Tuan Cao @tuancao.me · 15/12/2024

Yeah. I have that feeling to especially when trying to answer your questions.

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Tuan Cao @tuancao.me · 15/12/2024

Yeah. Probably a very niche and hard to sell market :D. Just checking 😁.

Tuan Cao @tuancao.me · 15/12/2024

People who have nextjs app that want to escape Vercel for the fear of surprise large bill. But don’t have the time and/or expertise to self host their app. Go broader will be harder I think.

Tuan Cao @tuancao.me · 14/12/2024

I think it's pretty neat. Could be something to support market research? Pay to get more insight for example? Or like GummySearch to explore niche?

Tuan Cao @tuancao.me · 14/12/2024

Did you build this? Look really nice, and neat idea 🤯!

Tuan Cao @tuancao.me · 14/12/2024

🤔 What do you think about this productized business $1000 for self-hosting NextJS app on selection of VPS (Hetzner, Digital Ocean, etc) #nextjs #self-host #buildinpublic

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Tuan Cao @tuancao.me · 12/12/2024

What topics are you binge watching 😁?

🔥 Glad you like it Michiel! Thanks for sharing!

Me tooo! Thanks Leo!

It is indeed a great open API to build from. I plan to check out the Firehose see if I can get some interesting stuff there too.

Lovely project by the way. 💪🏻

I think its mainly my past experience with running nextjs app on vercel while connecting to render postgresql server. I was not impressed by the latency between my nextjs app with render db. Maybe I need to reevaluate 😄.

Go and “download” you some bluesky bookmarks 😃.

I don't worry to much about the how. Because I love that part. I'm more worrying about how well it will perform compare to well-tuned auto-scale neon db. I guess the only way is to do it and find out anyway. :D

Where the fun!!! That’s why I’m asking here 😂

Yeah. For me, It's ok to run for 1-2 months, but to leave it out there for longer period, either the project has to make money. Or I need to host it somewhere cheaper to justify the cost. Not sure how to make money with whichpack yet 😅. My neon DB now has 3GB data, not sure how it run on VPS? 🤔

Pretty good in term of performance. The only reason I chose it because it's less shitty Managed Postgresql service out there. - Supabase is good in term of price/performance, but I don't like the whole package. I just want plain Postgresql - Digital Ocean not good enough - Render not good enough

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Well, he's Mark Cuban 🤣.