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0 pointsjoshmanders2y ago0 comments

"Why would I pay $6/mo (or $60/yr) when I can self host it?!"

Because even if you went with a $5/mo droplet at DigitalOcean, you're going save what? A dollar a month, plus have to do all the maintenance of keeping it running.

I mean yeah if self hosting is more your style, go ahead, but it's weird to me that people expect free to compete with "I'm paying someone else but doing all the work myself"

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carlosjobim2y ago

I don't know if self hosting is the competitor to a paid blogging platform, rather it is social media that is the competitor. Most bloggers don't have a domain, they're publishing on Facebook and other social media, who are making a killing of these people without giving them a good damned dime back.

LorenzoGood2y ago

I can deploy my blog for free on GitHub pages.

dewey2y ago

Usually when people talk about self-hosting they are not going to put it on a separate server, but run it on their existing server that already has a lot of other software running. So it would be more like spending 20/month running 7 services instead of paying 6/month * 7.

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