Ancestors

Written by Robin Riley on 2025-01-17 at 01:43

Wow. Self hosting Ghost is delightfully simple, especially with the Docker container. Nice change of pace from the last few applications I set up on my new server :blobcat_glasses:

Now it's just down to setting up Matrix and Pixelfed!

Then I'll have functionally replaced my old server, and can begin winding it down. Looking forward to knocking a couple hundred a month off my hosting bills :blobcat_bongo:

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Written by Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 on 2025-01-17 at 02:00

@robin I've done that too (self hosting Ghost) - and yeah, it's quite straightforward, eh! And am doing the same with Matrix and Pixelfed, although I have some work to do to tidy things up after the latest Pixelfed upgrade... but yeah, the savings in hosting is massive. All my external systems are running on Hetzner's 7 euro/month instances. Crazy cost-effective. (hosting a lot of other services besides those 3)...

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Written by Robin Riley on 2025-01-17 at 02:02

@lightweight Oh excellent! Glad to have another fellow traveler. The storage costs were what really pushed me over the edge :blobcat_sleepless:

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Written by Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 on 2025-01-17 at 02:10

@robin where/how were you hosting previously? Fully managed services? I've found moving my work off AWS & Azure, we lowered our costs 95% across the board. Paying trivial amounts for cloud hosting now. We have grandfathered server at Hetzner with big disks and back up to it, otherwise storage is a minor cost for us. We don't use object storage, all block storage. I back personal stuff up to home servers w/big disks at home & I host stuff here, too.

Now just need to play with Ghost more.

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Toot

Written by Robin Riley on 2025-01-17 at 06:40

@lightweight I had everything piled into Digital Ocean droplets, probably could've saved money by introducing a dedicated storage solution but it was more complexity than I was willing to deal with 😂

When I'm done with this project my storage will all be down to local machines and off-site backups, with some low wattage cloud servers to act as proxies.

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Descendants

Written by Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 on 2025-01-17 at 06:43

@robin nice.Yeah, I moved a lot of stuff from DO to Hetzner, and saved 60%...

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Written by Yuchen Pei on 2025-01-17 at 07:44

@lightweight

Hetzner bans in mysterious ways. I never managed to register an account there

@robin

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Written by Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 on 2025-01-17 at 07:50

@quasi @robin yes, I've heard that. I haven't experienced it, however.

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