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The hosts discuss the drawbacks of expensive hosting services and delve into the concept of self-hosted Platform as a Service (PaaS), mentioning popular services like Vercel, Render, Netlify, Heroku, and DigitalOcean's app platform. They explain the process of setting up a PaaS and emphasize the importance of software monitoring with Century.io.

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.