[xena]

My side project's tech stack is NixOS, Nginx, Rust and Xeact. It's a fairly popular blog that gets hundreds of thousands of hits per month (https://xeiaso.net). It's also got a hand-crafted CDN (XeDN) written in Go using net/http, tsnet and BoltDB running on fly.io.

On average it costs me $60 per month to run it in particular (Hetzner/AWS Route53/fly.io), but after ad and patreon income it actually earns me about $240 per month. I've been looking at minimizing the tech stack down some more to make it more cash-positive but moving everything on the Hetzner box to my homelab is logistically annoying. I'll get there some day.