3 posts tagged with "Hosting"

I've been dropping rclone into every new project since January. Once you watch encrypted dumps land in R2 in the time it takes to refill a coffee, every managed-backup-as-a-Service feels like paying rent on somebody else's wizard.

Latest one is youareplayer.com — small Postgres, single VPS, the kind of side project where one bad migration erases a weekend and the only insurance is the dump you forgot to run. Managed backups at $5–$20/month? Fine for a company, painful for a project paying its own server bill.

So: free, encrypted, off-site. $0/month if the database stays inside the R2 free tier. Here's the setup that's been running daily since.

Building a secure, feature-rich development environment shouldn't require weeks of configuration and security research. That's why I created DevBox — an automated provisioning script that transforms a fresh Ubuntu VPS into a production-ready development workstation in minutes.

In an era where web hosting typically costs $10-30 per month, it may seem impossible to host a professional website for free. However, with the rise of JAMstack architecture and static site generators, completely free, production-ready hosting is not only possible but increasingly popular among developers and organizations worldwide.