Exploring Hosting Services and Platform as a Service Options

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The hosts reflect on their YouTube channel's beginnings and their partnership with Bluehost, discussing the advantages of using hosting services for side projects and the convenience of platforms like Netlify. They also mention the cost-saving benefits of hosting multiple services on a single server and express their interest in exploring various platform as a service options.

Scott and Wes talk about the benefits of owning your own PaaS (platform as a service), the main alternatives in the space, and ways to make passion projects more financially viable.

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00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
01:12 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
01:56 What is a PaaS?
NGINX
04:21 Challenges with payment structures.
Render
07:02 What is Kubernetes?
Kubernetes
07:51 What are the differences between Kubernetes and Docker?
Docker Swarm
09:15 Reasons to own your own PaaS.
Nelify
Bluehost
15:05 “Pokémon or Web Service”
Original 150 Pokémon Characters
16:49 The players and their pros and cons.
18:51 Where can you host these services?
- 19:47 Kubero.
- Kubero
- 21:50 Coolify.
- Coolify
- Coolify pricing
- 28:15 Caprover.
- Caprover
- 29:03 Dokku.
- Dokku
- Shokku
- Ledokku
- Atlas
- Nixpacks
- 32:53 Piku.
- Piku
- 33:24 Cuber.
- Cuber
- 34:13 Acorn.
- Acorn
- Coolify creator, Andras Bacsai on X
36:44 The challenges of hosting your own PaaS.
38:46 Jekyll ran on a PC under a desk.
Jekyll
39:36 Sometimes less is, in fact, more.
40:09 Final thoughts.
45:03 Scott got Bun to work on Coolify.
51:01 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.