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Reading up on Ubuntu

3 deep · digging since nov 25, 25

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So @loaibassam asked me my stack recently, I replied: FREE: Nginx web server on Ubuntu (free) Auto upgrade with unattended-upgrade (free) Scheduled workers with Cron (free) Vanilla PHP for site backend (free) Vanilla CSS (free) Vanilla JS for code (free) Game servers I do in vanilla Node JS (free) SQLite for DB (free) Python for tool scripts (free) Cloudflare with Cloudflare tunnel for DNS/SSL (free) Tailscale for security (free) OpenFreeMap for maps (free) CHEAP: xAI for AI API (cheap) Stripe for payments (cheap) Cloudflare R2 for image storage (cheap) Hetzner VPS ($4/mo) Cloudflare domain reg (~$10/year) So about ~$5/mo total costs with about ~5M unique visitors per month per site (these are site averages)
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