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I've considered self-hosting plausible but ultimately decided to pay for subscription instead, because I think self-hosting would cause more in terms of VPS hosting.

The minimum requirements (4GB RAM) are too high because of the need to run two databases:

https://github.com/plausible/community-edition/blob/v2.0.0/d...

4GB RAM costs $24/month on DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets

In comparison Plausible lowest tier is only $9/month.

I think this project is not so different in terms of minimum spec.

Would love to hear how others deal with the cost of self-hosting. Does it get cheaper as you self-host more apps? Do you pool with friends?

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For way less than that you can get a 16gb/8vCPU ARM in Hetzner [1], and since it's for a analytics service, it doesn't matter it's not hosted close to your users.

[1]: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

Thanks. Will check it out!

And if you did want something closer, Hetzner offers USA based vCPU options that are still quite affordable compared to DO.

There's a 4GB option for 9 Euros.

I recently migrated my personal projects from DO to Hetzner for this reason

I had no idea DigitalOcean pricing has become so uncompetitive.

I remember back a few years it was praised by people for how cheap it was.

It's been for a while

Self hosting in the cloud can be a bit counterproductive price wise.

You can run docker on a $100 USFF i7 pc and stuff 32G-64G and a big SSD in for cheap. That'll run for years and you could add a second host for redundancy. Depends on your maintenance and failure tolerance.

Or you probably already have some spare hardware, maybe an old laptop kicking around.

Static ip is the problem where I live.

You can use a free DDNS like DuckDNS.

https://www.duckdns.org/

Cool! Didn't know there's a free service. Gonna give it a try this weekend!

If you pair that with nginx reverse proxy you can set all of your homelab stuff up with a dns name and ssl certificate and get rid of those annoying security messages.

Pair that with a URL shortener like Yourls and you can have easy, convenient short names to access your self hosted systems.

You don't have to worry about that anymore if you don't want to. Cloudflare has a Tunnel service where your service connects to CF.

if service permits serverless than you can host it cheaply on free tier of serverless platforms.

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