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For most personal projects, hosting on the cloud may be overkill, but tempting with its supposed ease of use and benefits of scale. Self-hosting is often overlooked as a solution with the benefit of simplicity and cost.

Interesting discussion and demonstration of self hosting the kinds of apps most personal projects will end being.

  • refalo@programming.dev
    2·
    6 months ago

    expensive

    Highly disagree, but I realize expensiveness is subjective.

    What is your definition of not cloud? Does anyone else’s VM count? So linode or digitalocean for example would be acceptable, or no?

    I guess “alternative” is also subjective.

    • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      I’ve been looking for a place to host web apps in whatever language (Rust, Nim, or whatever) and framework I want, where I can use my own domains and multiple apps, and have sudo access. And I don’t want to pay $70/month for it. I gave up on that hunt (it might have been unrealistic), although I’ll be researching some of the alternatives offered in these comments.

      • Miaou@jlai.lu
        1·
        6 months ago

        My ovh vps costs me 60€/y. Granted it’s low end specs. What would you need exactly?

      • refalo@programming.dev
        1·
        6 months ago

        Oracle VMs have a perpetual free tier. Even AWS’s non-free tier starts around $3/mo, similar for buyvm/DigitalOcean/linode/etc. There are MANY options that are way cheaper than $70… unless I misunderstood your requirements.