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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.

  • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    A VPS is also very expensive though. And shared hosting usually only allows HTML and PHP. So what’s the affordable alternative?

    • refalo@programming.dev
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      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
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        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.

  • Remy Rose@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I would really like to mess around with self-hosting someday, but I live in a residential area and those sort of shenanigans are explicitly banned by my ISP. Is there anything someone in that position can do?

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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    7 months ago

    I selfhost for 2+ years and it is both a job and really cool. We‘re not at real consumer self hosting yet imo but we‘re close.

    My setup is around 50 docker containers on two servers. Important (offline) and security conscious stuff at home and fediverse services on a vps.

    I‘m currently working on object storage which is a lot of work but its fun and maybe will come in handy too.

    You can check my setup on github. Feel free to hit me up if you want to do it too or wanna discuss stuff. You can also see my matrix in my bio.

    Have a good one.