[umaar]

I have stuck with cheap VPS servers for as long as I can remember. It takes 5 minutes to deploy a full stack node.js app, along with a database - and I've yet to exhaust the resources on my VPS, even with all my side projects (production grade and hobby stuff).

Have always found it weird how so many heroku-style hosting providers charge _per app_, things get costly, quickly, when you have lots of small apps like I do.

Just yesterday I realised I'll need a database to store job queues for https://chatbling.net - ChatGPT helped me figure out how to install it, have it persist to disk, ensure it starts up with the system etc. It's nice to not be fearful of unexpected charges hitting my card.

To anyone reading, even if it's just for learning, every now and then, skip the vercel/fly.io/netlify/planetscale/upstash/render/railway whatever cool hosting provider is out, and give a $5 VPS a try.

[klabb3]

I think I want to do the same. Can you describe your stack please? How much downtime do you get and how do you deal with app updates and system updates to the vps machine itself? What about monitoring?

[diamondfist25]

These PaaScost an arms and a leg and each one have their own DSL u have to learn.

Easiest is to just provision ur own vps and run a docker-compose or k8s

[klabb3]

Who needs a DSL when you can just have a massively nested undocumented yaml file?