For simple static sites like this, sticking a default Cloudflare stack in front ...

coip · on June 8, 2022

you’d (I’d) think ~managed cdn serving an s3/blob origin would be a no brainer. Hell, GitHub pages even: BYODomain, + hosting/automation/cdn…

Where’s the free lunch in that line of thinking? which cases are a droplet better in?

Frotag · on June 9, 2022

Being able to recycle the vps for other self-hosted apps is nice (eg vpn, dns-level adblock, etc).

Also not having to learn another tech for something you'd only have to set up once every year or few years.

coip · on June 8, 2022

(Now that I’ve tried to RTFA, it seems homie has a runtime dependence (db?) or something colocated on the host failing? OWASP, right? Having a resource limit reached maybe? Nextjs seems like a cool approach to manage partially ~runtime-dynamic systems like this/cms/etc)