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Show HN: Managed hosting for open-source web apps(cloudplane.org)

9 points by jgillich 3 years ago | 7 comments

jgillich 3 years ago |

I worked on this for over a year, and last week we've finally launched. I'm the type of person that loved self-hosting, but always thought server management was broken. Declarative infrastructure was part of the solution, but tools like Terraform didn't go far enough. Then I got into Kubernetes, and realized that it takes the declarative model to a whole new level. Cloudplane is built entirely on Kubernetes, and I already released a few blog posts on the technology behind it, such as CUE for templating.

Let me know if you have any questions!

ezekg 3 years ago |

What benefit does one get from using this over the cloud versions of e.g. Plausible or Ghost?

jgillich 3 years ago | |

No real benefit, but we do also offer other apps. And I know there's an ethical component here, where we might poach customers from the FOSS project's own managed hosting. That's not why I built Cloudplane, quite the opposite; the intention is to support FOSS sustainability by reinvesting parts of our revenue into the ecosystem.

tough 3 years ago | | |

You should partner with the FOSS/COSS companies. I work at one. we self-host our SaaS offering, but if we could offer to our self-hoster customers a self-hosted instance using cloudplane I think you would have much business in the future.

Focus on selling to companies, not the little guy

taubek 3 years ago | | |

But as far I can see your pricing is cheaper? There is no way that I have 10k of monthly visits (9 USD). And that is the lowest level from Plausible. I can see that your cheapest offer is 3USD. I have about 500 visitors per month so I guess the smallest of your servers should be fine?