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A small VPS will cost $180 over 3-4 years and will likely have better performance under load. It's a neat idea, but not practical, imho.
by darkstar_16 3y ago
A small VPS will cost $180 over 3-4 years and will likely have better performance under load. It's a neat idea, but not practical, imho.
- Hamuko 3y agoEspecially when the article suggests to "subscribe to Pinggy Pro", which is $5/month (currently $2.50/month on sale). Pretty sure that's more than the cheapest VPS on Hetzner. This seems like paying more upfront and paying more per month for less.
- mnky9800n 3y agomaybe this is all just an advertisement for Pinggy Pro and it really has nothing to do with hosting a website on an android phone.
- roqi 3y ago> Pretty sure that's more than the cheapest VPS on Hetzner. I'm rocking a two node cluster in Hetzner. One is an old 1vCPU small that costs over $3/month, and the other is a new 2vCPU addition that is a dash over $4. I pay for two ipv4 external IPs which costs more. Also, Hetzner started to offer ARM64 nodes that are even cheaper. Yes, Pinggy Pro is more expensive than operating your own nodes in Hetzner.
- ThatPlayer 3y agoYou probably don't even need a VPS. Shared hosting still exists and will be even cheaper and still be good enough.
- quaintdev 3y agoUse Hugo with GitHub pages.
- janandonly 3y agoI've never understood why Github would allow anyone to (mis)use it as a dumb hosting pipe?
- digging 3y agoWhat do you mean? GitHub Pages is built to be a hosting platform for sites with modest needs. Am I misunderstanding your criticism?
- janandonly 3y agoGitHub is for hosting code, no? Why would they (or anyone else for that matter) give away free hosting is my question? Altruism? Hoping to help startups? How do they gain?
- rerdavies 3y agoCloudflare still provides free hosting for one website. Setting it up not exactly straightforward. But they're currently hosting my website, my domain, and giving me free CDN, without my having ever provided a credit card.
- Hamuko 3y agoDon't they actually provide free hosting for unlimited number of websites? https://pages.cloudflare.com/ https://pages.cloudflare.com/ And yeah, I'm hosting my blog on Cloudflare. Very nice for a free service. Just hoping that the economic downturn isn't gonna turn off the tap on services like Cloudflare Pages.
- ghoshbishakh 3y agoAnd what about GitHub Pages? Those are free too right?
- rerdavies 3y agoOops. Quite right. They allow unlimited websites. I should know that, because they're currently hosting two websites for me. :-P
- qwertox 3y agoA VPS has the benefit of also giving you a static IPv4 which will then allow you to build your own tunnels and Wireguard stuff. But considering the amount of RAM current phones have, compared to what you get with a cheap VPS, there might be a benefit of running it on the phone.
- someotherperson 3y agoI've had a VPS since about 2013 or so and I think I haven't passed $180 yet. Of course it really depends on your usage loads, RAM usage, etc. But for small websites/apps there are cheaper alternatives.
- circuit10 3y agoYou can get a free ARM VPS with Oracle Cloud at the moment
- mnkmnk 3y agoIt is not really a fair comparison. I would expect that an old android phone that is just sitting in the cupboard to be used for hosting. I think the goal should not be “hosting website” but to be able to repurpose an old compute device for something useful. Phones these days are really good computing devices. 8GB or 16GB RAM, fast and efficient ARM processors, flash storage, inbuilt ups, Wi-Fi and 4G/5g connectivity, gpu and hardware accelerated encode and decode for video codecs etc. An equivalent VPS (hardware wise) would be more costly imo.