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Jiten — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:01:07 +0000

In reply to Ben. Hey! Did you find the solution to this issue?

Comment on Kamal’s missing tutorial – how to deploy a Rails 8 app with Postgres to your VPS by Bruno

Bruno — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:31:05 +0000

Hey, Thanks for your post and update to the new Rails and Kamal versions!! I’m trying to setup the pg-backups but it’s not working with my S3 setup. The SECRET_ACCESS_KEY is present in the env for the image but the scripts fail to load it while running the cron job. Any tips on that?!?

Comment on How to choose a domain name: my experience after buying dozens of domains for 15+ years by Zlatko

Zlatko — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:06:29 +0000

That was a truly insightful read, Rameerez. It makes me all the more convinced that I chose the right name for my side project.

Comment on Send this article to your friend who still thinks the cloud is a good idea by Piotr

Piotr — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:32:44 +0000

Thanks a lot for this article.

My few cents: one of the things that I like with running your app on your own machines is that in the worst case scenario, when you’ll make a mistake, a bug, and your app starts to consume 100% CPU and RAM – it will be localized to your servers only.

Compare it to big cloud providers where you pay-as-you-go without the means to put a real hard-cap for your expenses. None of them provide you with that, saying either it’s impossible or “you don’t want to turn your customers down because you hit some peak in popularity, right?”.

So, you create all those auto-scaling solutions that will add new machines, configure them on some LoadBalancer to deal with higher memory and CPU consumption.

By the time you realize there was some bug in your app you could already see that you just added a thousands of dollars to your bill.

They might cancel your bill after you’ll reach them.
Or they might not.
One more dependency on a good will of a cloud provider.

You don’t have any such concerns while running it on your own servers.

Comment on Send this article to your friend who still thinks the cloud is a good idea by John

John — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:36:39 +0000

I’ve been in the industry and worked extensively in both worlds, the world before the cloud and the world after the cloud. I work for a major cloud provider. I agree with your assessment that some people are too dogmatic one way or the other. My belief is that there’s a future where connectivity is so good that you run what is economical to run in the cloud in the cloud and run what is economical to run in a self-managed setup in a self-managed setup. The premise of using cloud services is where you can derive value from removing undifferentiated heavy lifting. Back in the old days I used to run my own DNS servers and my own e-mail servers. Nobody does that anymore. And your write-up here completely ignores the fact that cloud object storage is a good deal, and I’d be surprised if you’re not using it yourself for backups. What you’re really talking about here is that cloud compute and cloud managed database is expensive. But anyway – here’s a crack at a rational argument for you. If you’re a one person entrepreneur trying to incubate an idea, why would you waste time on configuring operating systems and software? I can deploy and test in the cloud and then tear it all down. Stand it back up when I need it. That’s what Terraform is for. I can’t terraform away 169 Euros per server. And if I have a good business idea then the ROI is going to dwarf my piddly startup cloud bill.

I agree with a lot of what you said here, because if you’re going to run servers for 730 hours per month, why not get as low as you can, it just makes financial sense. The tradeoffs can be done very simply in a spreadsheet.

Comment on How I exited the cloud by Andrej

Andrej — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:34:19 +0000

One server works if you can afford some downtime. Servers and disks do fail and it takes providers some time to restore service.

I hope that you have ensured that RAID, ZFS or other disk redundancy method is set up.

Comment on Send this article to your friend who still thinks the cloud is a good idea by wheresalice

wheresalice — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:42:34 +0000

It’s hard to argue that Cloudflare isn’t the cloud when it literally has cloud in its name. But otherwise yes, fully agree there’s little actual value from big cloud providers. The perceived value is because people have had bad experiences with poorly-managed on-premise infrastructure, and ironically that’s often because they weren’t given enough budget

Comment on Send this article to your friend who still thinks the cloud is a good idea by Luke Cavanagh

Luke Cavanagh — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:13:24 +0000

Hetzner is very solid for a solid VPS hosting provider.

Comment on Send this article to your friend who still thinks the cloud is a good idea by Iñigo

Iñigo — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:52:59 +0000

In reply to Agent Cyberis.

I worked for a telco company for more than 15 years and we always wondered *how* it was possible that AWS could charge you so much money for traffic.

Transit is actually *really* cheap.

Telcos will either charge you for line capacity, or for a direct peering connection a percentile 95 of the traffic you’re injecting.

AWS, Google, etc. charge you for byte transferred, which is much more.

It’s not just the hardware. Everything comes with an extremelly high price attached.

Comment on How I exited the cloud by Ryan C.

Ryan C. — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:09:41 +0000

Hey thanks for posting this! Just curious: do you think you could do cheaper still without the pain by running an on-Prem purchased server at your house, and then using some reverse proxy server or an overlay networking solution that can get around residential ISP CGNAT?