I'm cutting my monthly costs by more than 80% by self-hosting everything

I started indiehacking a year ago & was using mostly free services for my projects:

- Vercel

- Supabase

- PostHog analytics

- AWS EC2 first year free for micro instance

But over the last year, my projects have finally started getting some more traffic + my free credits on AWS ran out. I am looking to scale even more so I know costs can get out of hand pretty quickly (+ I have seen some scary stories here recently).

Monthly, I would have, on average:

- $50 for Supabase (5+ projects)

- $45 for my AWS EC2 instances

+ variable costs for renting GPU for my AI projects

+ I also just surpassed the limits of the free plan on Vercel in terms of bandwidth, Image Optimization & Speed Insight points

The only project that's (finally) making some money so far is ImagenMIA, and with only 60% margins or so due to high model training costs (+ still early phase).

On the one hand I am super happy that ImagenMIA is starting to generate some money on its own (all organic, SEO-based traffic) but on the other hand, infra costs are starting to climb up and are only going to get worse as it scales.

Luckily I saw a post from @dobroslav_dev mentioning Hetzner and Coolify. So I started digging into it and have migrated the first couple of projects to test everything out.

Here is my setup:

- One small VPS (€3.98) for Coolify

- 2vCPU

- 4GB RAM

- 40GB SSD

- 20 TB Egress traffic

A bigger one (€14.51) to host all my projects:

- 8 vCPU

- 16 GB RAM

- 160 GB SSD

- 20 TB Egress traffic

I will be self hosting everything:

- Supabase

- Front-end

- NodeJS Express API Endpoints

- N8N

- PostHog

I was a bit afraid but tbh, Coolify makes things so much easier (OS alternative to Vercel/Netlify) + now I no longer have to worry about extreme bandwidth costs in case of traffic spikes!

Looking to migrate my bigger projects over there hopefully the next couple of days!

Fekri

Fekri