Stop going to the cloud and getting scammed. $200 infra to serve your startup till 100k monthly users in 15 minutes. Self-hosted Postgres, caddyserver and docker-compose FTW.

This post discusses the drawbacks of relying on the cloud for startup infrastructure and suggests using self-hosted solutions like Postgres, caddyserver, and docker-compose. It provides a step-by-step guide on setting up a self-hosted Postgres instance and demonstrates how to achieve scalability and load balancing using docker-compose. The post also explains how to use Caddyserver as a reverse proxy for automatic SSL management. The setup allows startups to serve up to 100k monthly users at a cost of $200 per month.