Most recent Github stars are came from big tech youtuber's videos.
That's kind of my point. It's becoming impossible now to tell the difference between long running stable repos vs something someone with social media followers just started pushing by stars alone anymore.
A star growth chart, summarized by month, would give a good idea of whether this is steady growth or a meteoric rise overnight. (Storage costs of such a chart are negligible.)
I also prefer to get a (decaf) coffee, listen to some music while someone DDoS'd my VPS. I prefer to pay few $ / month for my VPS instead of paying thousands and "survive" the DDoS.
I pay $10/year for my VPS and host a WordPress Woocommerce store on it... It doesn't get much traffic, but it didn't take long to pay for itself either
I explicitly block everything in Russia (and China and Hong Kong) from accessing my servers, because otherwise the rate of SSH attacks is so high it actually prevents SSH from working reliably -- the connection pool fills up.
Just an FYI; I don't think it's that unusual. Blocking those geoips dramatically reduced my logging volume.
The link to the "competitor" is front and center on the site, so I imagine what you're really trying to say is that this is NOT a competitor for the following reasons: <missing>.
Andras (who created both Serverless Horrors and Coolify, which I imagine you're describing as the competitor here) is a pretty solid guy from everything I've seen and I've never seen him ask bait questions or engage in bad faith in discussions here or on other platforms.
Although he calls Coolify a Netlify 'alternative', it's 100% 'bring-your-own-server', and is not at all serverless. Coolify is basically a (very nice and featureful) fancy frontend to Docker with integration with Git.
Coolify is free if you want to install it yourself and don't mind the (minimal) tinkering needed to get it set up and keep it up-to-date, although you can pay a monthly fee to have your own servers managed for you, the main benefits are either to support continued development, or to access priority support. You still need to bring your own server, even if you're paying the management fee.
It's not a competitor to Netlify, it's an alternative.
Just to clarify, I didn't think that Coolify is a competitor.
What I was getting at is that we now have a thread with 4 replies: (1) you pitch competing product (2) what product? (3) Coolify (4) it's not competitor because ...
I just wanted to point out that comment #2 only seems to prompt question #3, whereas the helpful reply #4 created by yourself obviates the need for #2 and #3.
i guess 'possibly' the holy grail could be the laraval/rails/django mental model of serving routing and page behavior from the bandend, however using the same language for back as front and having things linked up in a typesafe way. wouldnt be perfect for every situation but would have a good mental model when youre developing a web app type of product where there's little distinction between front and back and theres only one client in mind for consuming server behavior.
Now with htmx, you can actually just generate the html in the backend and send the fully formed stuff to the frontend. No need to JSON-Api-fy everything first, then de-jsonify again in the frontend.
