Self hosting in 2023
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Self hosting in 2023
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#2I've spent some time on exploring the current self hosting scene after I got frustrated about pricings on different platforms and how absurdly complex certain stuff became. I'm happy to share it with you guys!
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#3I've spent some time on exploring the current self hosting scene after I got frustrated about pricings on different platforms and how absurdly complex certain stuff became. I'm happy to share it with you guys!
Proxmox and some great guides on GitHub might make life a lot easier for many people. I am astounded as how simple and point and click it has been.
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#4Not to downplay the intent, but hosting static site is much simpler in something like github or netlify. Also in my area business internet with fixed IP is more expensive than what I would pay for decent enough cloud instance($50 vs $10).
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#5If you don't need all that cloud operations/deployment infrastructure, self hosting a website from home in 2023 is as easy as it was in 2003. Get a DDNS, do the NAT port forwarding, run some apache/nginx/whatever and push your files with sftp or similar to the server. In contrast to 2003, upstreams got better -- even Germany has average upstream speeds of 20mbit/second nowadays [1]. With 20mbit/sec you can do quite something with a page-only website and contemporary event based webservers. And thanks to SoC systems, energy consumption is a no brainer.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1338657/average-internet...
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#6Not to downplay the intent, but hosting static site is much simpler in something like github or netlify. Also in my area business internet with fixed IP is more expensive than what I would pay for decent enough cloud instance($50 vs $10).
Definitely simpler than setting up everything from group up. Though ATM I would argue that It would take me the exact same amount of time to get another app online :). Regarding IP, in the blog post further down I'm explaining that I also don't have fixed IP and how you can setup DDNS.
Thanks for reading!
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#7This is amazing. More devs should build stuff like this for themselves. On the extreme one of the scale there is the amazing Andreas Kling building his own operating system. Building a whole system will give you unprecedented control and understanding. That is what being a hacker is all about.
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#8Not to downplay the intent, but hosting static site is much simpler in something like github or netlify. Also in my area business internet with fixed IP is more expensive than what I would pay for decent enough cloud instance($50 vs $10).
With dynamic dns static IPs are not as critical. Most routers support them natively. What it does is quite simple - every time the router receives a new IP, it updates your dns entry.
Not to mention that most “dynamic” IPs change only while the router is offline and your lease is up. So as long you don’t power it off, it may not change for large intervals of time.
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#9If you don't need all that cloud operations/deployment infrastructure, self hosting a website from home in 2023 is as easy as it was in 2003. Get a DDNS, do the NAT port forwarding, run some apache/nginx/whatever and push your files with sftp or similar to the server. In contrast to 2003, upstreams got better -- even Germany has average upstream speeds of 20mbit/second nowadays [1]. With 20mbit/sec you can do quite s…
Definitely. I'm just so used to the git pipeline flow that it would break my usual flow a bit too much :). That's why those new tools just make it so amazing! Especially combined with better and better ISP
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#10This is amazing. More devs should build stuff like this for themselves. On the extreme one of the scale there is the amazing Andreas Kling building his own operating system. Building a whole system will give you unprecedented control and understanding. That is what being a hacker is all about.
And I have to say that this "physical" server running and seeing it just makes the experience of web developing much more "real". At least for me :)