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		stepbeek on Jan 31, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-... Curious about the choice to self-host everything here. Why not deploy a django app to heroku? Or the new digital ocean app platform?

simplecto on Jan 31, 2021 [–]

If I have the competency and like it, then why not? Also consider this is in the context of personal projects and small operations where scale is not the issue.

I get way more bang for the buck in terms of compute, storage, and memory with self-hosted/dedicated.

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