Commercial Opportunities in a Renaissance of Self-Hosting
(johnys.io)
The accessibility, performance, and cost-effectiveness of self-hosting today are fascinating. You can buy commodity hardware at one-tenth the annual cost of renting it on Amazon Web Services, connect it smoothly to the public internet behind a residential IP with Cloudflare Tunnels or Tailscale, and seamlessly deploy with a host of solutions from a mature Docker ecosystem to DHH’s Kamal. For a total cost of several hundred dollars, I now have about $15,000 of annual AWS compute running in my basement.
The accessibility, performance, and cost-effectiveness of self-hosting today are fascinating. You can buy commodity hardware at one-tenth the annual cost of renting it on Amazon Web Services, connect it smoothly to the public internet behind a residential IP with Cloudflare Tunnels or Tailscale, and seamlessly deploy with a host of solutions from a mature Docker ecosystem to DHH’s Kamal. For a total cost of several hundred dollars, I now have about $15,000 of annual AWS compute running in my basement.