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/amp is now migrated from Vercel to self-hosted Coolify on Hetzner

It's a decently big app with 0.2m records in a 5GB postgres db and a bunch of scheduled workflows orchestrated with cron. I used to pay roughly $50-60/mo for all of the data/compute on Vercel.

Rolled a new Hetzner 8-core/16GB AMD instance in us-east ($30/mo). It hosts the database + app on the same machine. Vercel cron replaced with GitHub actions (which support cron-type scheduling!). 

Should eat only about 10% of the instance's resources 🚀 Growing more and more bullish on self-hosting.

building /amp. prev: 2x founder, improbable, github, amazon. ntik.me

How did the v1 cost so much to host?

Vercel at 20 per month for pro plan. -!: then db another 30? What were you using for db?

Building getinboxzero.com and sharemint.xyz.

I also run a YouTube channel, "Learn from Open Source": youtube.com/elie2222 

Ah. Much better options out there. Would look at neon next time. May have cost you 0.

Of all the options available Vercel Postgres probably the last I’d pick.

postgres on vercel - insanely expensive beyond first 100 compute hours ($1/hr)