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The Cloud is Over-engineered, Over-priced (and Over-rated?) (youtu.be)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago (13 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I use nearlyfreespeech.net. They bill for usage, and since my site gets almost no hits and doesn't take much storage, it's ridiculously cheap. Much cheaper than even he $2.50.mo VPS listed in another comment. I just checked, and I spend an average of $.30/mo.

[–] Slimy_hog 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks for this; I signed up because of your comment

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