The Cloud is Over-engineered, Over-priced (and Over-rated?) - eviltoast
The cloud is over-engineered and overpriced (no music)
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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.

  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    When you know something, it is tempting to tell others that it is easy. But it is not. I am no tech guy but i can install things like wordpress, webshops, forum etc on a webserver.

    I have been scratching the surface of self hosting an really having a hard time even getting started!