Self-Hosting
Handbook
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What's included with the Self-hosting Handbook?
- An interactive book that you can preview here.
- Scripts to automate your deployments.
- Email support—yes, we help with your deployments! While we can't guarantee 24-hour support like major cloud providers offering premium plans, we respond to all questions about self-hosting from our readers.
What will you learn?
- Where to find the best-priced servers and how to start your first server.
- How to deploy a project on virtually any cloud or bare-metal server, including old laptops and single-board computers.
- How to deploy multiple apps/services on one server. Yes, you can host as many projects as your server's resources allow.
- How to deploy projects directly from your local machine, even without using Git.
- How to scale server resources up or down based on demand.
- How to protect your projects from cyber attacks.
- How to connect a custom domain with automated TLS certificates – set it up once and never worry about renewals.
- How to deploy on multiple servers and balance traffic between them.
- How to set up CI/CD and deploy from GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab.
- How to perform zero-downtime deployments.
Deployment examples in the book
- Static websites
- Node.js
- Next.js
- Any project with Dockerfile or Docker Compose
- PHP
- Goland
- Any binary file you can run on Linux
- LLMs (Large Language Models)
Why do you need this book?
- It's more than a book—it's a combination of guides, tools, and scripts to deploy projects on virtually any server.
- The price is just 19 EUR (free while in Beta without any registrations), but it gives you knowledge and experience that would take months to gain on your own.
- If any issues arise with your servers, you'll know how things work and be able to find the problem faster, rather than waiting for someone from an open-source project or managed service to help.
- It’s structured for easy access to any chapter, with the ability to copy and paste scripts and commands. Imagine effortlessly copying commands from a PDF file.
- Written by a team that has worked with enterprises, mid-size companies, and startups, we understand infrastructure challenges from both large-scale enterprise issues and cost-effective, fast deployments.
- We’ve worked on EU government-funded projects with strict privacy regulations, so we know how to prepare your infrastructure for compliance with EU standards.
- The cloud is one of the most expensive parts of web and IoT projects if you don’t understand how it works. That's why this book is a great investment of your time and money for the future of your project.
- We help everyone who buys our book with any issues that come up while reading or trying to self-host something.
Cloud Providers We Recommend
- DigitalOcean
- Vultr
- Scaleway
- OVH
- Hetzner (if you have an european company)
- Other cloud providers where you can sign up and spin up an instance without reading tons of docs
Cloud Providers to Avoid
We don't recommend using AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure because:- They're overengineered and way too expensive
- Someone should pay for all their free tiers, startup programs, and marketing costs
- They have way too many infrastructure layers to deal with
- They try to lock you in at every step
- Their support sucks or is non-existent unless you pay for a premium plan
- The learning curve is insane
FAQ
- Q: Why a book and not a course?
A: It's simple—time is your most valuable resource, and we respect that. We created a handbook that focuses on the essentials, without unnecessary filler. The beauty of our book is that in just one hour, you can gain knowledge that would take weeks to gather elsewhere.