Hosting
Hosting: predictable cost, the right place to run.
The hosting bill keeps rising, data has to stay in Europe, or you are not sure if Cloudflare is worth it. This is where I help founders pick hosting that fits the stage without overpaying.
- AWS costs keep rising.
- Hosting must stay inside Europe.
- Is Cloudflare worth it?
- Managed hosting or in-house?
- Dedicated servers or cloud?
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Targeted starting points for this area.
Frameworks for this area
What hosting do I need?
Most startups overestimate their infrastructure requirements. A decision framework for founders choosing between shared hosting, VPS, dedicated, cloud and Kubernetes.
Should my startup stay on AWS?
Most early startups overpay on AWS without needing it. A decision framework for founders weighing AWS against a VPS or managed platform, with lock-in, egress costs and when AWS is genuinely right.
Do I need European hosting?
European hosting is sometimes a real requirement and often an assumption. A decision framework for founders weighing data sovereignty, GDPR data transfers and EU data residency, without buying compliance theatre.
Do I need Cloudflare?
Cloudflare's free tier makes it a low-risk default for DNS, TLS and basic protection. A decision framework for founders deciding what it actually solves, and what it does not.
Dedicated servers or cloud?
Dedicated servers give the best price-per-performance and predictable bills; cloud gives elasticity and managed services at a premium. A decision framework for founders choosing between bare-metal and public cloud.
Managed hosting or in-house?
The monthly bill is rarely the real cost of running infrastructure. A decision framework for founders choosing between paying a provider to operate infra, databases, backups and monitoring, or running it themselves.
Is hosting becoming more complex than it needs to be?
AWS, VPS, dedicated servers, Cloudflare, monitoring, backups and security. It is often simpler than people think.