Indie Dev Experience: VPS-Hosted Tools Require Almost Zero Maintenance
JamesIvings · x · 2026-08-11
The author shares their experience deploying tools on a VPS. Over the past few months, they have shipped 6 small tools with exactly zero maintenance time; they just work after deployment. They push back against the common notion that running things on a VPS is a massive time sink, noting that at most, package updates might be needed once a year.
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