[mattbillenstein]

Are you hosting this on residential internet? I think that's probably the main drawback.

I host these types of things on a single vps - actually I have a few projects on one vps using different domains, so if you amortize the cost, it's probably $5/mo per - the total vps being around $20/mo although it has less compute than you'd have here, it is in a datacenter which I like.

They are mostly idle and you can run the webapp, nginx, and db all on the same host without any problem.

[RileyHilliard]

Correct, residential internet. I mostly tried doing this to see if I could it to work, and this is just a side project so I'm not too concerned about it from a stability standpoint. I'd say the biggest thing I've learned from it that would make me not choose the selfhosted route again is mostly security. I have everything pretty well quarantined off on its own, but that's really the only thing that keeps me up at night.

If the project were more serious or had decent traction then I'd probably first move it to VPS and then start considering cloud options. That's actually been kinda the point of this though: keep it simple and cheap early and if it gets some traction then ramp up the infrastructure beyond being selfhosted, but in the meantime selfhosting it is so cheap: it can just run @ the cost of the power it uses, which the M1 uses very little power.