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As with mastodon and similar projects - having to deploy, secure and maintain a db server is a big friction point, I wish projects aiming at self-hosting would
by virtualpotato 7y ago
As with mastodon and similar projects - having to deploy, secure and maintain a db server is a big friction point, I wish projects aiming at self-hosting would internalize that and use something like sqlite for small to moderate deployments and would even as go as far as suggesting that it is unlikely to ever be deployed at a scale that a single-writer-multi-reader sqlite service on a decent machine can't handle.
- slig 7y agoFor $20/m ($5 for a droplet and $15 for a managed DB instance) you can have that peace of mind on DO.
- sjy 7y agoPaying $15/month for a managed database is not self-hosting.
- slig 7y agoOne would still have the fun of maintaining the application server updated.
- kevindong 7y agoThere's much more to hosting a service than standing it up on the modern equivalent of an VM and assuming it'll never need to be touched again.
- slig 7y agoSure, but the parent was talking about the difficulties of handling a DB server.