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.

  • nintendiator
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    8 months ago

    Because when my IP address changes all my websites stop point to the services

    Stuff like no-ip and dyndns exist for that specific usecase.

    • Djtecha@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Exactly this. I’ve been using afraid dns for over a decade. Easy to setup and is basically instant.