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Hosting projects built with Cursor / n8n / Lovable is harder than it should be

I’ve been experimenting a lot with AI-assisted tools like Cursor, Lovable, and n8n. It’s wild how quickly you can spin up a micro-SaaS or workflow, but the real pain comes when you try to host it. Options I’ve run into: VPS providers like hetzner, linode (cheap, but you need Linux/DNS chops) Serverless (starts cheap, but gets unpredictable with scale) Managed hosting (great for WordPress, not so much for custom stacks like Supabase/n8n/etc.) I eventually hacked together a way to run multiple apps (Supabase, Lovable sites, WordPress, backend APIs, etc.) all on one server through Kloudbean, which I’m building with my team. It gives me a clean dashboard instead of forcing me to mess with terminal commands. But I’m still wondering: Are others here facing the same issues hosting these newer AI/no-code/low-code tools? Do you stick with raw VPS, or pay more for managed setups? If you’re not DevOps-heavy, how do you balance cost vs. simplicity? Not trying to pitch anything, just trying to understand if this hosting gap is something real builders are hitting, or if I’m the only one overthinking it.

dtagames 1y ago
Deploying software is always at least as hard as writing it in the first place, and none of the AI tools are of much help. This is reason we see lots of videos of AI software demos but few links to things we could download or run ourselves.
- Vikram_jindal 1y ago
  Yeah, totally get what you mean. I’ve noticed the same thing — AI tools make it ridiculously easy to spin up something that looks like a working app, but the moment you try to deploy it in the real world, you hit walls. Most demos stop short of deployment because setting up DNS, SSL, scaling, logs, monitoring, and all the little “ops” bits is still way too messy — especially if you’re not already DevOps-heavy. That’s kind of what pushed me into exploring this space more seriously. Curious though — when you’ve had to take something beyond a demo yourself, did you lean more towards DIY VPS setups or managed platforms? I keep running into people who either overpay for simplicity or underpay and get buried in configs.
  - dtagames 1y ago
    I already had experience deploying web apps so I use the same setup I have a workflow for. But if that's not been someone's experience, DevOps, as you say, it's going to be a hard road. My advice is not to build anything you cannot be sure you can ship. And you must know how it will ship before you code it to ensure that happens.

dtagames 1y ago

Deploying software is always at least as hard as writing it in the first place, and none of the AI tools are of much help. This is reason we see lots of videos of AI software demos but few links to things we could download or run ourselves.

Vikram_jindal 1y ago
Yeah, totally get what you mean. I’ve noticed the same thing — AI tools make it ridiculously easy to spin up something that looks like a working app, but the moment you try to deploy it in the real world, you hit walls. Most demos stop short of deployment because setting up DNS, SSL, scaling, logs, monitoring, and all the little “ops” bits is still way too messy — especially if you’re not already DevOps-heavy. That’s kind of what pushed me into exploring this space more seriously. Curious though — when you’ve had to take something beyond a demo yourself, did you lean more towards DIY VPS setups or managed platforms? I keep running into people who either overpay for simplicity or underpay and get buried in configs.
- dtagames 1y ago
  I already had experience deploying web apps so I use the same setup I have a workflow for. But if that's not been someone's experience, DevOps, as you say, it's going to be a hard road. My advice is not to build anything you cannot be sure you can ship. And you must know how it will ship before you code it to ensure that happens.