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I moved all my personal projects off Vercel to a self-hosted Hetzner server Free tiers are great for hobby projects. But the moment you need long-running processes, you're paying. A sync engine, a 24/7 data collector, Postgres. These aren't serverless workloads. #buildinpublic #selfhosting #webdev

Mikael Siidorow

@siidorow.dev

On Fly.io, Render, or Railway a single always-on service runs roughly 5-7€. But a real app is never one container. My sync engine powered app needs the app, a sync server, and Postgres. Three services, 15-20€ for one project. I run all that plus other apps on Hetzner for 8€ total.

7/3/26, 9:02 am0 reposts0 likes

Mikael Siidorow

@siidorow.dev

7 Mar

NixOS and Kubernetes configs were mostly vibe coded with Claude. Took a weekend. Now I modify my infra from my phone. Prompt Claude, it opens a PR, I preview, I merge. No dashboards. Vibe infrastructure. And the cost stays at 8€ no matter how much I deploy.

Mikael Siidorow

@siidorow.dev

7 Mar

My server is in Finland, run by a German company. No US jurisdiction over my data. That wasn't why I moved, but it's something I've started paying more attention to. Anyone else self-hosting? Where do you draw the line between convenience and control?