This was a really great tutorial, thank you for walking us through the steps. I already knew most of them, but needed a refresh, especially on the pm2 part. Keep up the great work!
Really good! I'm still getting over the fact that nextjs has to be built in situ. A build can always fail, so it seems very risky to overwrite your live site with some new code that needs to be built. Folk are likely handling this with containers but I think I'm going to try a blue/green strategy and switch the nginx config when the build has succeeded. I'm also a bit startled to see the PATH modified in the deployment pipeline. Why should I need to modify my pipeline every time my node version changes? I think I need a better solution there. God I wish we still had server guys.
There is a slight problem with this and it is that you cannot run build while running PM2 because building causes the files that are being served by PM2 to be modified, you have to copy them to another directory before hand, I think you can use `next build [directory to which you copied the files]` to fix this, otherwise awesome video! edit: use next JS standalone mode, not `next build [directory]`!
I think Digital Ocean is going to be the best value and very easy. The interface is so clean and easy. Aws interface is very confusing and the pricing is complex. The servers may be similar in cost but with AWS there’s added cost to bandwidth which makes it even more elusive. If you’re scaling something massive AWS would be good if you will use other services . For most apps Digital Ocean is really nice.
It means when you created the server you didn’t place your ssh key on the server. If creating from digital ocean you need to add the ssh key during the process of creating the server. If it’s not added when creating you won’t be able to login. You can delete the server and start over.
nvm, pm2 and npm should not be running as root, this is dangerous and asking for trouble. If anybody wants to follow this guide I really highly recommend that you create a separate user account for this and also for cloning and updating the code. Root is the Linux equivalent of an admin user and anything that does not require admin privileges should never run as root. If there is ever an RCE in your code or nextJS and you are running this setup the attacker has full admin access to your server. Create a sandboxed user account with limited privileges, a separate SSH key and read/write only allowed to their own files for every project, project A should not be able to read files from project B.
