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9196 :: What are the best hosting companies to host systems written in the Nim language?

• DeletedUser (orginal) [2022-06-03T13:36:06+02:00] view original

  Context

  1. Worpress which is a cms written in php - the php community generally recommend the Bluehost company.
  2. So what are the best hosting companies to host systems written in the Nim language?
  3. Are there any attractive companies to host applications on Nim?

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• PMunch (orginal) [2022-06-03T13:43:57+02:00] view original

  There isn't really anything Nim specific that would apply for a host. In general for something like Wordpress you need a machine with PHP installed (and preferably updated and configured reasonably well). Nim can run pretty much anywhere, although for a web service I would recommend something with an internet connection. The playground runs on a Digital Ocean droplet, and I assume some of the other pages does as well. Another similar host would be Linode or Hetzner. But you could conceivably even write Nim services that runs on an ESP8266 glued to the underside of a table at your local Starbucks (although I doubt you'll be able to get a static IP which might makes thing a bit tricky).

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2022-06-03T14:21:09+02:00] view original

  I think the most important thing is that you have shell access, so that you can configure systemd services (or similar) and your webserver. In contrast to php, which usually runs as a webserver module, alongside the webserver, nim applications tend to be stand alone applications that the webserver proxies to.

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• jasonfi (orginal) [2022-06-03T14:46:26+02:00] view original

  I use AWS. Lightsail is good to get started with.

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• reversem3 (orginal) [2022-06-03T18:32:02+02:00] view original

  Honestly any hosting providers that allows linux binaries to be installed or that you have access to github to build nim yourself.

  Since you can run the nim compiler and virtually anything.

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• cmc (orginal) [2022-06-03T21:23:22+02:00] view original

  I host everything on Hetzner. Here is a script to turn a fresh Hetzner Debian cloud image into a Nim host (somewhat shortened).

  
  
  sed -i 's/main contrib$/\0 universe/' /etc/apt/sources.list
  
  # automatic security updates (see https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades for details)
  apt -y install unattended-upgrades apt-listchanges
  if [ ! -f /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades ]; then
    echo unattended-upgrades unattended-upgrades/enable_auto_updates boolean true | debconf-set-selections
    dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive unattended-upgrades
  fi
  
  apt -y install fail2ban
  apt -y install nginx
  
  # for each app:
  echo "
  server {
    # add another file for each subdomain
    server_name myapp.mydomain.com;
    # let certbot enable ssl
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    location / {
      proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
      
      # add these if you use websockets
      proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
      proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
      
      # chose different ports if you have more than one service
      proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5678
    }
  }
  " > /etc/nginx/sites-available/mydomain.conf
    ln -s ../sites-available/mydomain.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/myapp.mydomain.com.conf
  
  certbot --nginx --noninteractive --agree-tos --register-unsafely-without-email -d myapp.mydomain.com
  
  echo "
  [Unit]
  Description=myapp
  After=network.target httpd.service
  Wants=network-online.target
  
  [Service]
  DynamicUser=True
  ExecStart=myapp --host:127.0.0.1 --port:5678
  KiillMode=mixed
  KillSignal=SIGTERM
  
  # if you write to files
  Environment=%S/myapp
  WorkingDirectory=%S/myapp
  StateDirectory=myapp
  
  Restart=always
  LimitNOFILE=65536
  NoNewPrivileges=yes
  PrivateDevices=yes
  PrivateTmp=yes
  ProtectHome=yes
  ProtectSystem=full
  StandardOutput=syslog+console
  StandardError=syslog+console
  ReadWriteDirectories=/proc/self
  ReadWriteDirectories=-/var/run
  ReadWriteDirectories=-%S/myapp
  
  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target
  " > /etc/systemd/myapp.service
  
  # place your binary in /usr/local/bin
  systemctl start myapp.service
  systemctl enable myapp.service
  
  # should work
  curl https://myapp.mydomain.com
  
  # troubleshoot return status
  systemctl status myapp
  
  # show logs
  systemctl -u myapp -n5000
  
  # show logs live ("tail")
  systemctl -fu myapp -n5000
  
  Run

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