Self Hosting 101
summary
Argues that self-hosting cuts costs versus managed services (often two to three times cheaper for mail, VPN, DB), and shows a concrete fast workflow: a Discord bot goes from code to running in 15–20 minutes using simple deploy scripts and rsync. Recommends specific tools and behaviors: Caddy for automatic TLS and easy reverse-proxying, supervisor for process restarts, using disk swap to avoid OOM kills on small VMs, and docker-compose with restart: always for container uptime.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Self-hosting basics
- 2:12Why start self-hosting
- 5:46Essential self-hosting tools
- 9:42Caddy as web server
- 10:22Supervisor for processes
- 12:29Rsync for file transfers
- 15:03Swap for extra memory
- 16:29Docker Compose
- 17:31Q&A
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