How I keep hosting cheap

How I keep hosting cheap If you've been around my portfolio a lot of things that I've hosted are either on vercel or on my VPS and I've had a post before that talks about how selfhosting might not be for you. Compute isn't free but it's definitely can be made cheaper if you do something similar. My apps or rather the delivery artifacts for most of these can be split into the following categories. Static Content Binaries Containers Static Content These are normally hosted on Cloudflare or Vercel and are pretty much free for the most part. I don't use Next.js or other frameworks, it's mostly static HTML/CSS/JS generated by some utility. A good example is the site you're reading right now. Which is a bunch of markdown files that are converted to HTML by alvu. Also, vercel because there's no surprises when it's just static content. If you are using their functions / dynamic rendering, you might need to research the pricing and the edge cases before you go in that direction. Most of the…