✅ Free Hosting: Docker w/ Postgres

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[spice abyss]

❤️ the Student Dev Pack. It is the single best offering of stuff for students imo. Used to work on the GH Edu team so big love from this side!

The pack itself isn't what will let you host stuff - it's the services that provide promotions through the pack. You can absolutely deploy Directus on Digital Ocean (or Azure, Heroku) using Docker.

Other than the fact you need to deploy and maintain and instance, there's no limitations 🙂

[ocean cypress]

Just applied for it, after uploading my student card and student email I got instant approval! Nice

Is there no way to host with Github Pro for free? Or I would need to pay

As of right now I have approximately 800MB of upload (images), using Postgres for the db, with latest version of Directus

[spice abyss]

GitHub doesn't host your running applications

[ocean cypress]

Ah OK

[spice abyss]

You need to host it on a hosting platform, but the student pack gives you access to several for free

[ocean cypress]

GitHub Pro provides access to Free Hosting Providers you mean?

[spice abyss]

No - the student pack 😅

[ocean cypress]

Oh

[spice abyss]

Here's some

DO, Azure, Heroku

[ocean cypress]

Ah OK nice

Which would you recommend for easiest Docker deployment?

and longest free tier lol

[spice abyss]

I use DO personally, but all are good. Why not read their docker guides first and make a call what's best for you

[ocean cypress]

OK will do, but I don't see sign up links from this page https://education.github.com/pack?sort=popularity&tag=Cloud - how do you link it to the GitHub Student Pack?

it appears the hosts are all limited to 1 year, just checking to confirm with Microsoft Azure

[spice abyss]

It's been a while since I used it - you should reach out the the team over there to discuss claiming student promotions from the pack. IIRC it was a promo code, but it could change

[ocean cypress]

Ah OK thanks

I also understand Vercel recently added support for postgres now too

Or something along those lines

[spice abyss]

Yeah they announced a few storage solutions during their ship week

[ocean cypress]

Yeah

I'm curious about Supabase too, lots to explore.. just wanna keep it cheap if possible haha..

Supabase looks nice but it's a pretty big jump in price from 1GB file storage to 100GB

maybe something like AWS would be better to keep costs lower on the usage only

they have 1 year free trial, I'm sure there is a Docker deploy option somewhere in their millions of services too

I think I will go with Firebase Free Tier 😛 To start with.. Then decide where to go from there hopefully switching hosts is not too painful for Docker deployments

[spice abyss]

Enjoy! Let us know if you have any other questions about directus

[ocean cypress]

ty!

[ocean cypress]

Oh, one question actually - is there any way to confirm that I am using Postgres somewhere via this link? http://localhost:8055/admin/

[fathom palm]

+1 for DO. My fav next to netlify

[fathom palm]

super easy to migrate via docker images! 🙂

[ocean cypress]

Firebase? or Digital Ocean?

[fathom palm]

anywhere! thats why docker is so awesome 🙂 one image to rule them all

its the DB thats important and your data store for files

otherwise its host agnostic 🙂

[ocean cypress]

OK Nice.. I am building the site locally, adding images and creating collection types with relationships
So if I just upload the docker-compose.yml file to Github, that only gives the container environments
But how would I also upload my changes (file uploads, collection types) to Github? I'm on Github Pro now with Student Pack, if that helps

[ocean cypress]

should I be syncing both folders onto Github?
/data
/uploads

along with docker-compose.yml

Just trying to understand the best dev/production setup when it comes to Docker

The way I work:
I'm adding everything locally, as it's faster than working online

[fathom palm]

/uploads
/database (only if using sqllite, so not needed here)
/extensions (for any installed extensions)

thats the persistant folders

[ocean cypress]

I'm using Postgres

[fathom palm]

than not needed for /database as far as Im aware

[ocean cypress]

but how would I get my data to sync? From local environment to production

or is that a very bad practice

and for the database media uploads to correlate to the /uploads folder, wouldn't that require the same postgres database?

[fathom palm]

quick meeting for me. but yes. same database would be the same. or a migration would be needed

[ocean cypress]

No problem,
So maybe for Github I should just sync everything?

If I do this, everything (including the data) should be guaranteed to work on a new Docker Compose?

[zinc jetty]

Hi, I currently migrating a project too. With that file structure you should have everything good (can you show your docker compose file? Some time you have to make some changes in the config to make it work on the server)

[ocean cypress]

I just copied the docker-compose.yml file exactly as it is from https://docs.directus.io/self-hosted/docker-guide.html#docker-compose

Copied the .yml file to a new project folder and in Terminal I typed docker-compose up

Before all of this, I also have Docker Desktop installed

apparently it's quite easy to get it hosted, many hosts handle Docker quite nicely, but I will see how it goes

[shadow anchor]

✅ Free Hosting: Docker w/ Postgres