Also, what would you say about the advantages of hosting yourself, compared to say fly.io or similar services? For instance Docker or container seems to “the way” right now? I’m relatively new to web dev…
I'm old school; i don't do Rails or Django; I've got a mod_python on my apache but I haven't used "in anger" yet; all im serving now is static HTML.
However, previously I served several thousand users daily over a span of some years using a dual Pentium with 128MB of RAM and 6GB of spinning rust hard disk. Using earlier versions of the same software stack. Most of that traffic could be characterized as "static" as well.
The prime advantage of self hosting for me is editorial control. Hosted elsewhere, who knows when an opinion previously expressed becomes "problematic." If I manage to really piss someone off; they'll have a slightly larger amount of trouble having my site taken down than the usual single complaint to a service provider.
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Also, what would you say about the advantages of hosting yourself, compared to say fly.io or similar services? For instance Docker or container seems to “the way” right now? I’m relatively new to web dev…
I'm old school; i don't do Rails or Django; I've got a mod_python on my apache but I haven't used "in anger" yet; all im serving now is static HTML.
However, previously I served several thousand users daily over a span of some years using a dual Pentium with 128MB of RAM and 6GB of spinning rust hard disk. Using earlier versions of the same software stack. Most of that traffic could be characterized as "static" as well.
The prime advantage of self hosting for me is editorial control. Hosted elsewhere, who knows when an opinion previously expressed becomes "problematic." If I manage to really piss someone off; they'll have a slightly larger amount of trouble having my site taken down than the usual single complaint to a service provider.