Moved exoplanet hunter off render and onto hack club’s nest today. honestly it was way smoother than i expected! then nested my ssh key, waited a couple hours for approval, then ssh’d in and just… ran the thing.

(Though my app is still available on render because when shipping the project, i mentioned render there and unfortunately, i cant find the edit option of shipping documentation 😭😭)

Had to install python and git manually since the container comes bare bones but after that it was just cloning the repo, setting up a venv, and running uvicorn.

threw it behind a systemd service so it auto-restarts if it crashes and now its sitting at

exoplanet-hunter-v1.kavish.hackclub.app,

eating 200mb of ram on a 2gb box. the whole process from “i have nothing” to “its live on the internet” took maybe 20 minutes.
Nest is actually goated for giving teenagers free linux vps with no credit card required. only thing that tripped me up was being logged in as root and trying to use sudo which… doesnt exist when youre already root. heheee