r/lowcode
Anyone running their public website on the same low-code platform as their internal tools? Ours died for 6 hours at our biggest trade show.
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Day one of our biggest trade show this September, the site was down about 6 hours because logs filled the disk. The QR code on our booth banner got 300 and something scans in that window. A sales guy texted me from the booth. I'm the only IT person at a 60 person hydraulic parts distributor, so the website's mine too. It's 11 pages plus a PDF catalog, built with a static site generator by a contractor who's long gone, and parked on a $24 a month VPS. I'm not a web dev. Closest I've come is building our quoting and RMA tools in low code, and that platform has a basic page builder I've half considered for the site. Marketing wants to edit it themselves, and I could move the site onto that page builder this week. Our quoting platform roughly tripled our price at renewal in 2024, so my rule for internal tools since then is never without an exit. No idea if that rule even makes sense for a brochure site. If we go hosted, can we get our content out later? Or is there a middle option, like static hosting on Cloudflare or Netlify, with no server to babysit? And what monitoring would've caught a full disk before the show? I have to recommend something by end of month, and sales still brings up the banner every time I walk past.
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[comment u/Digital_Mole81] I'd move it to static hosting on Cloudflare Pages or Netlify, because with no server there's no disk to fill up.