How I Host my Critical Apps for under $85CAD/month - Part 1 - Setting the basics
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Now that we've discussed why I've chosen the matrix ecosystem, it's time to elaborate on how I host everything.

Happy new years!

One of my personal goals is to secure the data of me and my community from data scraping as much as I can. I’ve also learned a ton from blog posts on how to host software, and it’s time I contribute back.

So, welcome to my series on how I host my services with as little dependency on US-based services as I can.

I’d love feedback on my writing so I can learn and improve as well!

  • mmhmm@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Thank you! Your tech analysis mirrors much of my own and your build of matrix mirrors some proofs I’m working. It is wonderful to see what others are doing. Thank you for sharing.

    I am hosting on vultr and deployed synapse, postgres, and a signal bridge on a 2 gb mem, single core VM. It is simple but effective for learning. It is about 12$ per month.

    My next build will be docker based. Reverse proxies are a weakness of mine so I am trying to upskill before I make the change and advertise my setup as prod to family and friends :)

    I’d prefer to run everything from my homelab, but I don’t have the infosec confidence to open my home network. The costs of cloud will never beat the salvaged comps I get at university surplus ;_;