Shipping a Go API to Production on a Budget

A $6 VPS, a systemd unit, Caddy for TLS and Postgres backups to object storage. Our full production setup, costed in shillings.

Kampala Gophers Team22 Aug 20263 min read

You don't need Kubernetes to run a reliable Go API. Here's a setup that has served thousands of requests a day for under UGX 25,000 a month.

main.go

srv := &http.Server{
	Addr:              ":8080",
	Handler:           router,
	ReadHeaderTimeout: 5 * time.Second,
	WriteTimeout:      15 * time.Second,
}
go func() { log.Fatal(srv.ListenAndServe()) }()

<-ctx.Done()
srv.Shutdown(context.Background())

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