For most personal projects, hosting on the cloud may be overkill, but tempting with its supposed ease of use and benefits of scale. Self-hosting is often overlooked as a solution with the benefit of simplicity and cost.

Interesting discussion and demonstration of self hosting the kinds of apps most personal projects will end being.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Is it over-engineered for you? Absolutely. For enterprise level applications that must ensure 100% up-time and have complex requirements? No

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      7 months ago

      Exactly. That’s the whole point of view of the video; for hobbyists and their personal projects, it is likely overkill.

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        6 months ago

        Well, the title is click bait then.

        Title: “Linux is the worst!”

        Content: if your favorite software is Microsoft Excel.