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What I Self Host

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116 points FredrikMeyer | 2 comments | 20 Oct 25 16:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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crossroadsguy ◴[21 Oct 25 05:26 UTC] No.45652730[source]▶
Something pikapods looked neat at first then soon I realised the costs add up and add up a lot. One day I was calculating it at pikapods at I realised I had crossed 27 USD/m and I wasn't even finished. Like those streaming services - everything on a new streaming service i.e a new pod and they cost separately. I wish there was a service which would take away the pain of installation and maintenance away from me but let me host a lot of absolutely single user (i.e. only I'd access that of course) and as light weight as it can get and as low in usage at it gets on one single "pod" or "instance" or "box" and charge for that. Also, it's not a pikapods or pikapods' problem, it's a general problem I believe.
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1. majora2007 ◴[21 Oct 25 15:22 UTC] No.45656950[source]▶
I will say, Pikapods is really nice because they give a cut back to the developers of Open Source. I'm the maintainer of Kavita, a popular self-hosted reading server and pikapods gives me something like 10-15% cut of each user running Kavita.
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2. crossroadsguy ◴[22 Oct 25 06:16 UTC] No.45665444[source]▶
My comment was not on integrity of pikapods or their functioning. Rather how even such a setup results in costs adding up and that could be a net negative to self hosting.

PS. Your app's name kavita - does it mean poem/poetry or it means something else?