Hello everyone !
I have a node app and a PostgreSQL DB in VPS using Docker, with Coolify as a CI/CD, nothing too fancy, you might say.

My question is the following.
I have a lot of read/write on my DB and even the lowest increase in DB latency can have an impact on my users’ experience. As my VPS is in France, what could be the best/easiest (selfhosted?) option to solve this problem in other regions (North America, Asia…) ?

Thks in advance 🎄🎁

  • Mateleo@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    6 months ago

    I wasn’t quick enough to answer @vsq, but I’d really like to know, as a false beginner, isn’t renting a VPS server considered as selfhosting? Even if I have all my services on it (Jellyfin, n8n, Immich, TeamCity etc).

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      6 months ago

      Depends on whom you ask from. For me selfhosting is all about the software and renting hardware is a perfectly fine solution for that. You don’t need to worry about UPS’s, maintaining hardware and all the jazz which comes with your own gear. Sure, then you’re depending on your VPS provider that services actually stay up, but even a small VPS provider has more people working on things than just yourself. And they have power solutions, like industrial scale power solutions with generators, multiple connection points to the internet and things like that which are either impossible or very expensive to set up just for your own hardware.

      And then there’s the other side, like home automation, where relying on internet connectivity to get your lights on is, in my opinion, a bit silly thing to do for yourself and running server for that locally makes perfect sense. So, right solution depends on your needs, but if you want to define what counts as self hosting in my opinion it boils down to who has the root/administrator credentials on your server. Other may have different opinions.