- Why self-hosted: You have unrestricted control over what you use
- Why not self-hosted: Steep learning curve. Not free
Paid
Providers
- https://contabo.com: Singapore Ubuntu VPS with 150GB SSD, 8GB RAM, 3vCPU
- https://cloudflare.com: Domain registrar (.com):
Costs (as of 2025-07-23)
- VPS monthly fee: 6.80 GBP/129,885.44 IDR
- Domain (.com) yearly fee: 10.44 USD/170,132.88 IDR
Total yearly fee: 1,728,758.16 IDR Average monthly fee: 144,063.18 IDR
Prices may be higher due to tax and other stuff.
Free
- ⭐ : Currently using (as of 2025-07-23)
All may be set up using Docker (except 1Panel)
- ⭐ Container admin panel: https://github.com/portainer/portainer
- ⭐ Cloud storage: https://nextcloud.com
- ⭐ Mail server: https://mailcow.email/ (Advanced. Full mail stack including web-mail, backup/restore script, health notifications, etc.)
- ⭐ Database admin panel: https://www.phpmyadmin.net/
- ⭐ Web server: https://nginxui.com/guide/about Planning on migrating to https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy, although not beginner friendly
- ⭐ Automatic backups: https://autorestic.vercel.app/ + https://rclone.org/
- ⭐ Monitoring: https://uptime.kuma.pet/
- ⭐ VPN: https://tailscale.com/
- Server admin panel: https://github.com/1Panel-dev/1Panel
- Content management system: https://wordpress.com/