I am developing a platform, the details don’t matter, but it’s a system the hosts personal data. As a result, I want to avoid hosting users in any way, and I am trying to make it as easy to self-host as possible.

I have some experience self hosting applications and I have some intuuition what to do or don’t, but I wanted to see if I can pull from the collective wisdom.

Got any good resources to share? Any tips? Or, maybe some bad experiences or things to avoid?

  • mox
    2•4 months ago

    Another thing to keep in mind is resource usage. Software with low RAM and CPU requirements will work well on a great variety of self-hosted server platforms. If your code runs well on an old Raspberry Pi (the original or maybe a Pi 2), it will probably do well in most other environments. This VPS list should give you a picture of low-end platforms that are in use out there.