jcrabapple on Nostr: Self-hosters: don't give people a hard time for paying for cloud services, when you ...
Self-hosters: don't give people a hard time for paying for cloud services, when you are hosting it yourself "for free". It's not free. You are spending money on hardware or a VPS, and electricity to run it 24/7. And you are spending your time learning it, setting it up, and maintaining it. Everything has a cost.
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