In recent times, my opinion about self-hosting has changed. Instead of paying for multiple services, I am now renting a decently sized VPS on Scaleway, and hosting all my projects on them. It’s been three months, and it has been working out great for me.
Instead of paying for multiple services, I am now renting a decently sized VPS on Scaleway, and hosting all my projects on them.
That’s not self hosting. That’s moving your managed services down the stack from PaaS to IsaS.
It’s an unserious take on the impacts as well. No discussion of availability? Backups? Server hardening and general security? Access and authentication models? Sysadmin on aVPS is more than “running a bunch of commands now and then”, and the author ignores that entire workload.
I will applaud anything embracing self hosting, but I feel like author is forgetting the experience gained during those years. Things have been simple for way longer than docker existed.
Yeah, sounds like they may not have been very comfortable with the tools. Which is fine, but nothing has really changed.
I think that what changed is that more people gained more experience, and of those people, a lot like to share their knowledge.
So the wealth of information and workaround is much bigger now. It makes it easier to get into devops, even though it hasn’t dramatically changed over the years.
Isn’t VPS PaaS?
Great writeup! I’ve been doing a project with a 2gb 1vcpu vps as my host and one compose file. It is so much simpler than past project that I used aws for.
Can you share any specifics about your compose file and how it’s structured?
I’ve got 4 services, mongo, mongo express, my web service and traffik. When I want to deploy I git pull master then docker compose up -d --build
Amen, I am migrating back to self-hosted as much as I can.
