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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.

  • @[email protected]
    25•2 months ago

    Great question. Here’s where I’ve landed:

    • For a surprising number of things, my previous desktop, running Linux, confined to my local network, is perfectly fine.
    • For a number of other things, a Raspberry Pi, with a dedicated disk image (ISO), confined to my local network, is fine.
    • Surprisingly often, a not-at-all-dynamic dynamic DNS solution gets the job done. I follow the first half of the DynDNS guide, and then hard code my preferred IP, and skip the rest. It’s inconvenient when my IP changes, but that happens a lot less often than most folks imagine. Most DNS providers have provided this to me for free after I bought my domain name from through them.
    • For my public personal portfolio, GitHub pages works fine.
    • For additional silly static sites, AWS S3 and AWS CDN get the job done for about $3 per month.
    • When I need to do public facing database stuff, I get a virtual private server, not from Amazon or Microsoft, who both way overcharge for small apps.
    • @[email protected]
      5•2 months ago

      I was surprised to find oracle’s offerings so economical for personal use. I set up a foundry server (TTRPG) and so far it hasn’t cost me a cent. Still not a fan of them or their CEO, but this is working for me.