If you own a domain (e.g. artem.xyz) you can put a Phoenix site on each subdomain (e.g. project-1.artem.xyz, project-2.artem.xyz), or you can use a reverse proxy like nginx to put each project in a different path for a given origin (e.g. artem.xyz/project-a, artem.xyz/project-b).
I put my toy projects on a cheap VPS (Hetzner). It’s good practice to run something like that because it also teaches you the basics of DevOps. Sure, you can pay someone like Netlify or Render or fly.io to hide the difficult stuff away, but learning how to do it yourself is a great skill to have. And it’s really not that difficult once you understand what is going on.
So my setup for these toys is to create the server, then use Ansible to set up the server (create users, disable root access, install and configure services, etc.). Then I have a playbook that pulls my Git repo, builds a Docker image, then restarts the server with the new container.
First, you set things up manually, then automate them. There’s tons of great tutorials online that will show you how to set this stuff up.
