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New comment by icemelt8 in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

icemelt8 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:53:38 +0000

What an amazing piece of information in a thread about a game engine, thanks for sharing this.

New comment by icemelt8 in "Show HN: Running our stack on a $25 Hetzner node with Coolify and SQLite"

icemelt8 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:39:43 +0000

We built Wetarseel with a focus on keeping the "mental overhead" of infrastructure as low as possible.

The Hardware: > We’re using a single Hetzner VPS (8 vCPU, 32GB RAM, 200GB NVMe) for ~$25/month. Compared to the big cloud providers, the vertical scaling headroom here is massive for the price.

The Stack:

Orchestration: Coolify (self-hosted PaaS). It handles SSL, GitHub-triggered Red/Blue deployments, and Docker management.

Runtime: Next.js and Bun.

Database: SQLite. Having the DB as a local file on NVMe makes latency negligible and simplifies backups (it's just a file copy).

Workers: BullMQ via Redis.

Storage: Self-hosted S3-compatible storage on the same node.

The goal was to see how far we could get before needing a distributed system. So far, the performance has been excellent, and "it just works." Happy to answer any questions about the setup or the trade-offs of going single-server.

Show HN: Running our stack on a $25 Hetzner node with Coolify and SQLite

icemelt8 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:39:08 +0000

We recently moved the infrastructure for Wetarseel away from complex cloud setups to a single "big" server. The goal was to reduce both the monthly bill and the "mental tax" of managing distributed services.

The Hardware: We’re using a single Hetzner VPS (~$25 USD/mo) providing:

8 vCPUs

32GB RAM

200GB NVMe

The Architecture: Instead of a fleet of microservices, we run everything on this one node using Coolify as a self-hosted PaaS. It gives us a Heroku-like experience (Red/Blue deployments via GitHub webhooks) without the per-resource cost.

The Stack:

Frontend/Backend: Next.js and Bun.

Database: SQLite. Since it’s just a file on the NVMe, latency is near zero.

Queues: BullMQ orchestrated via a local Redis instance.

Storage: Self-hosted S3-compatible storage for assets.

Why we did this: We found that vertical scaling is underrated. With 32GB of RAM, we have massive headroom. Using SQLite removes the need for managed DB overhead, and Coolify handles the "plumbing" (SSL, networking, backups).

It’s been surprisingly stable and "just works." I'd love to hear from others who have ditched complex cloud infra for "boring" single-server setups, or any questions on the trade-offs we've made.

Link to article [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-we-chose-coolify-hetzner-...]

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824934

Points: 3

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New comment by icemelt8 in "Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert"

icemelt8 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:22:06 +0000

The most shocking thing in this article is learning about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine I didn't know about it, what an unnecessary loss of life in a modern era.

New comment by icemelt8 in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

icemelt8 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:38:35 +0000

> I’m typing this blog on a HP ZBook Ultra G1a 14. Question to HP, who names this crap? Why do these companies insist on having the most confusing product lineups and names.

The reason is that they are not serious companies, this is why anything other than a real macbook and with a real macOS is not worth having spent time on.

New comment by icemelt8 in "Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming"

icemelt8 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:59:30 +0000

Even if one game doesn't work on this (there are many) and works on Windows, why shouldn't I just use Windows?

New comment by icemelt8 in "Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file"

icemelt8 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:32:33 +0000

Thanks this is very helpful, can you please look at the code more, specially around inserts and reads why its so slow?

I am a lowly frontend developer who got into the SQLite hype due to twitter and DHH from Rails, didn't know how bad SQLite was.

New comment by icemelt8 in "Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file"

icemelt8 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:44:18 +0000

check the benchmarks here https://trailbase.io/reference/benchmarks/ its clear thats a lot of overhead on top of sqlite

New comment by icemelt8 in "Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file"

icemelt8 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:51:20 +0000

Beware of pocketbase! I am running my startup wetarseel.ai. You'll be badly locked into one instance with one sqlite file, plus its queries are not mapping to SQL, try a bulk delete and it will choke your entire system, plus other footguns.

New comment by icemelt8 in "1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18"

icemelt8 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:31:50 +0000

very good, but no thanks, I'd rather use the state of the art M series mac chips with polished MacOS

New comment by icemelt8 in "Steam Machine"

icemelt8 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:22:46 +0000

but games are a niche, nobody in my circle or extended circle plays video games.

New comment by icemelt8 in "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"

icemelt8 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:59:15 +0000

how did you do NSFW?

New comment by icemelt8 in "When stick figures fought"

icemelt8 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 10:09:00 +0000

I grew up learning Flash and started my love for programming due to ActionScript 2 then 3, is there anything like this today I am looking for something for my 10 year old daughter.

New comment by icemelt8 in "Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes"

icemelt8 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:02:42 +0000

not at all, Shadcn has been a game changer for all young, bootstrapped and individual developers. Who now have a professional looking UI available for free and easy to use.

There are echo chambers and availability biases, it takes a bigger person to know that they live in one.

New comment by icemelt8 in "Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes"

icemelt8 — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 21:27:04 +0000

default UI of the internet

New comment by icemelt8 in "React Flow, open source libraries for node-based UIs with React or Svelte"

icemelt8 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:33:46 +0000

We use this for our flow builder in https://wetarseel.ai

New comment by icemelt8 in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

icemelt8 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:08:41 +0000

Once again people will find out that no software should be free.

New comment by icemelt8 in "WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration"

icemelt8 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 21:30:37 +0000

Or just use windows :)

New comment by icemelt8 in "Svelte’s characteristics that likely contribute most to improved performance"

icemelt8 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:30:29 +0000

ReactJS is pretty consistent since last 5 years and probably won't be changing for next 5 years.

New comment by icemelt8 in "Sora 2"

icemelt8 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:42:42 +0000

you are right, its an actual movie called Planet