I do think masto.host is a great host, but if you can afford a bit more, I can throw my hat in the ring: Cloudplane. Our pricing model is based on usage, so you'll never have to upgrade you base plan just to upload more media. We run daily backups and also have an option to export your data to your own s3 bucket on a schedule (currently in beta and free, but there may be a small charge per export in the future). Source: over 2 years ago

I’m on https://cloudplane.org/ with an instance of three users (mostly just me tbh) and I pay about $16 per month. I’ve been pretty happy with the performance and support. Source: over 2 years ago

If you lack the server administration skills, there are also fully managed hosting providers. masto.host is a popular option starting at $6, my service Cloudplane starts at €12. Source: over 2 years ago

We are on that list and we accept new users :) https://cloudplane.org/. Source: almost 3 years ago

I got started with Cloud Plane this weekend. So far, so good. Source: almost 3 years ago

There are languages specifically for writing configs. Like dhall https://dhall-lang.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago

> I'm thinking what is the missing piece here First, it's cool that you work on it. Creating a new language is not an easy task. I would suggest to try to stand on the shoulders of giants instead of trying to come up with a completely new thing. Have a look at dhall: https://dhall-lang.org/ - it is a language that was created for cases like yours. Or, if you want to make POML a fully fledged language (and turing... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

I'll give a shot at some guiding principals: 1. Do not use yaml. All github action logic should be written in a language that compiles to yaml, for example dhall (https://dhall-lang.org/). Yaml is an awful language for programmers, and it's a worse language for non-programmers. It's good for no one. 2. To the greatest extent possible, do not use any actions which install things. For example, don't use... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

I'm a fan of anything that moves us away from stringly typed nonsense. See also Dhall (which can render to yaml). I like the idea but found the veneer broke a little too often and left me squinting at Haskell. https://dhall-lang.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

I think you're asking for Starlark (https://starlark-lang.org), a language that strongly resembles Python but isn't Turing-complete, originally designed at Google for use in their build system. There's also Dhall (https://dhall-lang.org), which targets configuration use cases; I'm less familiar with it. One problem is that, while non-Turing-completeness can be helpful for maintainability, it's not really... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago