SaaS pricing is getting ridiculous.
What starts as a few useful tools can easily snowball into hundreds of euros per month. And if you're running ...
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First of all thank you for sharing, really helps in understanding the alternatives.
Whhen we talk about potential savings, we often forget the fact that maintaining these self-hosted options cost the engineer's time which is definitely not cheap unless one is not well-versed with the technology. First, I would prefer to get my hands dirty and then jump into open-source ship.
Btw, sliplane is amazing and following your content 😊
Yeah, thats true! I hope I made that clear enough that the time tradeoff isn't taken too lightly. For me it makes a lot of sense (and it also makes me use sliplane more, which is great dog fooding)
Interesting. The postgres piece sticks out to me the most because what typically drives my cost for production DBs is state volume. For the numbers you gave, I'm guessing you aren't paying for something like ~TB scale persistent storage?
No, we're not at TB scale yet :D I think we have a few hundred gig (uncompressed) data in postgres
I think saving that much every month just by hosting stuff myself feels awesome tbh - makes me wonder if Im missing out by sticking to the big names.
Nicer article than the serverless bias. 👍
haha thanks, the serverless ragebait posts are a rare occasion if i feel like triggering 20k people 😆
This has been bookmarked as a "let's try this out" for a while in my deck. Finally got an excuse to include it in a list of tasks as I migrate personal servers and try some new lightweight orchestration techniques (terraform-traefik-docker). With that stack I ended up making a few adjustments (Plunk->Resend, Nextcloud->Seafile), but overall still a potent combination.
Nice! Glad you enjoyed and that it helped. Not a hater, but before you fully commit to Resend I'd suggest taking a look at their status page (resend-status.com/). I used them before but this has gone on for years at this point 🫠
This was a great read! Thank you.
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no conocia Plunk, muchas gracias por ese dato!
I am an aspirant web developer and I only understand some of these terms, but I understand from this post and comments that it is helpful, and I will use it in the future.
Checkout dflow.sh, it is also provides you a good self-hosted solution.