An example of how you can save money, simplify your architecture and speed up the development by going back to the basics and ditching the cloud, kubernetes and whatnot.

Denis Bolkovskis

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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.

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.

BUT MUH SCALABILITY, LOAD BALANCING, SSL and whatnot

Ditch Kubernetes, docker compose for the win

Load Balancing & automatic ssl with Caddyserver

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<p>Add monitoring, observability, alerts. (Ain’t that hard tbh, we will explore that one day)</p>
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<p>I would be interested by this hopefully next part following the same philosophy.</p>
