Buy some used servers on eBay, at least 3 will do for redundancy, then get 2 internet connections. Set up another server to act as your opnsense firewall/router

Buy some used servers on eBay, at least 3 will do for redundancy, then get 2 internet connections. Set up another server to act as your opnsense firewall/router and bond the two internet connections together. Make sure to buy a pair of UPSs for power back up. Install kubernetes and rook ceph with about 12 hard drives (redundancy) then find a friend who can host another server for offside backups. Dont forget the tape drive system for your second media. Start deploying gittea so you can host your code. Use argocd so you can have a build system. Deploy dapr so you can host all of your microservices in a standard way. Deploy otel and alertmanager so you can hook it into the only cloud service you need: OpsGenie (don't forget to winge the whole time you use it) That way you can write an article about how much cheaper self hosting is compared to the cloud and get your next round of investment. On a serious note. The next startup I do I'm going to just use supabase.