Resources
Tools to help you succeed!
Welcome to the Brain Dump resource section. Here you find a curated list of tools, websites and books that I strongly recommend! I personally use every recommendation you'll find here.
Some of the links below are affiliate links. At no expense to you, I will earn a commission in case you actually decide to purchase something. As said, I recommend these products because I love them, not because I get a commission from them.
Automation
Make.com
Make.com is Zapier on steroids and made for devs instead of people who require no-code. Granted, it is still a graphical interface, but not linear, like Zapier. You can construct a full flow graph, with logic, data stores, etc. Make allows you to craft complex logic, flows and interactions. I moved everything I had on Zapier and IFTTT there instead.
Monitoring
PingPing
PingPing is a straight-to-the-point uptime monitoring service that also notifies you when your SSL certificate expires. It does exactly what it needs to, without any additional bells and whistles. And very cost effective as well (I'm biased as I own the service).
Content Delivery
Bunny.net
Bunny.net is a great alternative for Cloudflare, with a pay-as-you-go model, instead of Cloudflare's per domain subscriptions. If you have multiple smaller domains, Bunny.net probably provides what you need without all the complexity of Cloudflare.
Hosting
TransIP
My traditional hosting provider of choice is TransIP VPS Hosting. A very tech driven company, with super support, fast ordering process and everything you need from right within the web interface.
Hetzner
For larger scale deployments, I'm not very happy with Hetzner Cloud hosting. Low cost, European-based, and great API to interact with. I've moved all my cluster servers there over the last year.
Transactional e-mail
Postmark
I've been using Postmark for as long as I can remember. Reliable transactional e-mail with very good pricing. Great web interface and good API with a useful PHP implementation. Very dev-oriented.