Origan

Europe has good hosting providers - OVH, Hostinger, Hetzner, Scaleway, and more. But while European tech sovereignty is as urgent a topic as ever, I just couldn't find a good, user-friendly, fast serverless-based fullstack hosting.

In contrast, the US has dozens - Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, Void, and that's without mentioning the hyperscalers.

Origan is my proof of concept in this direction.

It supports:

• -Git connection for push to deploy and cloud build
• -Frontend deployment
• -Backend deployment of serverless functions based on V8 isolates
• -Custom API routes or NitroJS framework
• -Branch previews and rolling domain (no downtime deployments)
• -Immutable deployments and unique domain
• -Custom domains
• -Environments and variables
• -Log streaming

Under the hood:

• -A management API and Postgres database
• -A builder service for cloud builds
• -A gateway (with optional TLS termination)
• -A V8-based function executor
• -NATS for messaging and log streaming
• -Object storage for config, frontends, and functions
• -A CLI to manage accounts and trigger ad-hoc deployments

All components live as a single unit, horizontally replicable and Kubernetes hostable at the edge, mimicking the workings of a CDN and allowing capacity to be added incrementally.

This is also a project I started with someone I call a friend. I'm not entirely sure working together did any good to our relationship - probably the opposite. As much as I learned technically from it, the bigger takeaways are surely personal and relational.