I am not the biggest fan of meta blog posts, also called blogging about blogging. I do think they’re sometimes useful but they’re also quite uninspiring for me to read. And that’s why I try to stay away from the topic for the most part. But a bunch of people over the past few weeks have reached out via email, asking me questions about my blog, how I run it, where is hosted etc, and so I thought it was a good idea to answer a bunch of questions here all in one go.
All my domain names are currently managed by Hover. They’re not the cheapest but I like that they don’t try to upsell crap at every possibility and the UI of the admin interface is nice. At first, my site was hosted on a DigitalOcean VPS but after a few years I moved over to Hetzner. Up until a few weeks ago it was hosted in a US datacenter but I moved it back to Europe and it’s now sitting in a datacenter in Germany. It’s also the first time I’m using an ARM-based VPS and so far everything is working perfectly. If you care about specs the VPS has 2 VCPU, 4GB of RAM, 40GB of SSD space, and 20TB of bandwidth. Costs me around 4€/month.
I am not a sysadmin, I don’t enjoy spending time configuring servers so all my VPS are managed using Runcloud. I currently have 15 servers in my admin interface and I run them for myself, for friends, and for clients. Runcloud costs me 190$/year.