GitHub Codespaces Reviews

SimpleBackups Reviews

1. Tony Lein

   · Working at FAQ Ally · 7 months ago
   Simple, reliable, and exactly what it promises

   SimpleBackups does exactly what you want a backup service to do — it’s easy to set up, works quietly in the background, and gives real peace of mind. The interface is clean, the process is straightforward, and everything feels well thought out.

   It removes the complexity from backups and just makes them work. Reliable, efficient, and genuinely useful. Highly recommended for anyone who values simplicity and dependability.

   👍 Pros:    Its flexible and easy to use
2. Giel Tettelaar

   · Director at EMCI Register · almost 4 years ago
   Nailed it

   Its in the name really...

   If you want to ensure your systems are backed up and want to be able to manage this easily simplebackups is the only solution that I can think of.

   🏁 Competitors: N.A.

   👍 Pros:    Easy to use|Cheap|Fast|Intuitive|Best customer support

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  First, remote dev environments became table stakes. GitHub Codespaces, Gitpod, and self-hosted dev containers became how serious teams worked. Every engineer I know who ships to production now SSHs into a box they didn't provision, edits files with whatever editor is installed, and commits from a terminal. An IDE-bound agent requires you to also forward your IDE to the remote box, which most people don't bother... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

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  This package provides support for managing GitHub Codespaces in Emacs and connecting to them via TRAMP. It provides a handy completing-read UI that lets you choose from all your created codespaces. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Don't get scammed on an interview.

  GitHub Codespaces provides 60 hours of free compute time every month, which is more than enough for scoped home assignments or interviews. It’s a full VSCode in the browser at github.dev or vscode.dev. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

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  GitHub Codespaces - Cloud development. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

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  https://github.com/features/codespaces All you need is a well-defined .devcontainer file. Debugging, extensions, collaborative coding, dependant services, OS libraries, as much RAM as you need (as opposed to what you have), specific NodeJS Versions — all with a single click. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

SimpleBackups mentions (9)

• Ask HN: Who's building an AI-free product?

  We're running SimpleBackups (https://simplebackups.com) a backup solution for databases, servers, storage, and applications. Sounds like a boring business but I love it! - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  SimpleBackups.com — Backup automation service for servers and databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) stored directly into cloud storage providers (AWS, DigitalOcean, and Backblaze). Provides a free plan for 1 backup. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Restore or Migrate your MySQL Database to Railway

  You can create a MySQL backup for Railway.app using the MyDumper tool or by using a backup service like SimpleBackups. Both methods involve generating a dump file that can be used for restoration. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

• What’s your product and how much do you charge per month / year?

  At SimpleBackups we do backup automation for servers, databases and storage. We have plans from $29/m to $199/m. Source: over 3 years ago

• Finding users to cold-review our SaaS - user experience

  Our SaaS SimpleBackups is running great and we’re passing the 6000 users threshold. Source: over 3 years ago