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I’m a solo founder running a two-sided marketplace app on the typical Vercel free tier + Supabase stack. It’s live with low-traffic right now. My concern is the 'cliff' I keep reading about—where Vercel becomes prohibitively expensive at scale. For those who migrated to a $5 Hetzner/DigitalOcean VPS:<p>What was the specific metric that forced the move? (Bandwidth, Function execution time, Cost?)<p>How much 'DevOps' time do you actually spend maintaining the VPS vs. building product?<p>I want to avoid premature optimization, but also don't want to be locked into a platform that will bankrupt the project if it takes off.
I've been running my own email server for the past month (https://github.com/fenilsonani/email-server) and I'm curious what the actual barriers are for people.<p>From my conversations, I keep hearing:
- "Email is hard" (deliverability, spam, etc.)
- "I don't want to manage another server"
- "What if I lose my emails?"
- "Google/Microsoft just works"<p>But I'm also seeing people frustrated with:
- Rising costs ($12/user/month for Google Workspace)
- Privacy concerns
- Account suspension risk
- Vendor lock-in<p>For those of you still on Gmail/Outlook/etc. - what would it actually take for you to self-host?<p>Not trying to convince anyone, genuinely curious about the decision-making here.