A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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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

I would be keen to hear your thoughts after a few months. 

As expensive as Vercel is, it’s brilliant for product launches and speed of iteration due to smooth integrations for DevOps stack. What I call “take-off”

Once devs have a basic set of features and workload patterns, i.e. are “cruise mode”, moving to self-hosting is usually a wise move.

This was my main critique about the whole anti-cloud trend DHH started a few years ago.

(BTW, my analogy doesn’t need landing, heh)

Holistic views of tech. Helping teams manage complexity and build more effective software – /framedltime – /sauce – /cto

I'd recommend it even for the early teams. devex is fully maintained - vs. vercel. caveat: need to be comfortable with launching and maintaining servers, but just basic things like security, updates, etc - not huge overhead.