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A comment on Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects?.

Re:Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects? by thinkafter on Sunday August 30, 2026 @05:56PM (#49503267)
Used Heroku until they got rid of free

Used Vercel until they banned img tags

Used AWS until they suspended my account (they always do this, new account -> week later suspended, can’t pay them, they don’t want me)

Used GCP until I got the first bill

Every option was a headache, so now I just self host. Forward router ports, install an SSL, npm start

Problem solved. For free

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects? by ilmak1704 on Sunday August 30, 2026 @06:36PM (#49503514)
Is self-hosting permanent now, or would anything pull you back?
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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects? by thinkafter on Sunday August 30, 2026 @07:00PM (#49503676)
Need to scale and have deployments in different locations, more guaranteed uptime, more resources that I have at home.

Would be a good problem to have!

For hobbies and even small businesses a home server on residential ISP is a lot of fun

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects? by mcsniff on Monday August 31, 2026 @12:06AM (#49505444)
"fun" is kinda the last thing I want with my (small) business infra.

It should be rock solid, relatively inexpensive, and from a reliable company with some expected longevity. I want it to be boring, no surprises, never think about it because it Just Works (r).

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