Perfect deployment setup

leonardooricklast year

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  wiessonlast year

  I'm using

  
  

  * render.com for nodejs

  
  

  * cloudinary for image store and

  
  

  * mongodb/atlas for the db (serverless, should scale if required)

  
  
  

  Costs about 7 USD/month (my content is mostly static, so no high load expected).

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  jjaimealemanlast year

  I too, am very new to Payload.

  
  
  

  Would you mind sharing some details about how to set this all up?

  
  

  I've been doing some comparisons between Render and Flyio. Still undecided on which.

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  wiessonlast year

  I didn't think that much about it, I simply went with render because my first tests were all successful 😄

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  vladimirputtinlast year

  to deploy there's also northflank which is super ez. just need to add an docker file to the root of your project.

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  leonardooricklast year

  @525819893333884938

  thanks a lot for the insight. Is payload connected with cloudinary somehow or you just store the links?

  
  
  

  render.com seems to be a great option that Idk how I've never heard of. Thank you so much

  
  
  @525819893333884938

  can you give some insights on how do you deal with environments?

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  wiessonlast year

  You can set them directly within render.com

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  generator101last year

  @525819893333884938

  can you please share your cloudinary setup? I am using the cloudinary plugin but getting errors and cant save the files.

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  wiessonlast year

  What errors do you get?

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  generator101last year

  I was getting a 500 error but after I moved app.use(mediaManagement()) to be above await payload.init, everything worked! lol I think that readme file for cloudinary plugin needs an update, it also doesnt mention about the env variables

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  leonardooricklast year

  @525819893333884938

  Yeah, would be really nice to understand how you integrate it. For me starting on Payload CMS I don't even understand what's the benefits of using it instead of just storing media locally