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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 hos

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/docker-compose.yml https://github.com/plausible/community-edition/blob/v2.0.0/d... 4GB RAM costs $24/month on DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets 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?

slig 2y ago
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/ https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/
- paradite 2y ago
  Thanks. Will check it out!
- wcedmisten 2y ago
  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
  - paradite 2y ago
    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.
    - cchance 2y ago
      It's been for a while
uuddlrlrbaba 2y ago
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.
- paradite 2y ago
  Static ip is the problem where I live.
  - arcanemachiner 2y ago
    You can use a free DDNS like DuckDNS. https://www.duckdns.org/ https://www.duckdns.org/
    - paradite 2y ago
      Cool! Didn't know there's a free service. Gonna give it a try this weekend!
      - BizarroLand 2y ago
        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.
  - slig 2y ago
    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.
pdyc 2y ago
if service permits serverless than you can host it cheaply on free tier of serverless platforms.

slig 2y ago

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/ https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

paradite 2y ago
Thanks. Will check it out!
wcedmisten 2y ago
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
- paradite 2y ago
  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.
  - cchance 2y ago
    It's been for a while

uuddlrlrbaba 2y ago

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.

paradite 2y ago
Static ip is the problem where I live.
- arcanemachiner 2y ago
  You can use a free DDNS like DuckDNS. https://www.duckdns.org/ https://www.duckdns.org/
  - paradite 2y ago
    Cool! Didn't know there's a free service. Gonna give it a try this weekend!
    - BizarroLand 2y ago
      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.
- slig 2y ago
  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.

pdyc 2y ago

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