Look, I've been messing around with online side projects for years. Tech isn't my day job, but i'm not afraid to put on big boy pants and figure out how to administer a system.
With the advent of vibe coding, I've put more effort into those projects, and have started looking at the hosting world for something that fits my use case.
Every solution seems to fall into two categories:
- Sketchy VPS for the super cheap: Anything 'vibe app' sized at a decent price is from unknown providers' random forum posts.
- 'Free' tier cloud solutions: That don't stay free for very long if you get any kind of traffic, or dont optimize your SQL, or.. you get the idea.
Where's the middle ground? What's the solution for people who:
- Need some offsite horsepower for their vibe app
- Don't need "enterprise-grade" anything
- Want real servers, not oversold garbage
- Think 100 daily visitors is a win worth celebrating
The Problem with Current Hosting
AWS wants you to have a solutions architect certification just to host a blog. GoDaddy wants to upsell you 47 things you don't need. DigitalOcean is pretty good but gets expensive at real compute/memory levels.
And don't get me started on the pricing pages. "Starting at $0.0001 per millisecond" – just tell me what it costs to run my dumb project for a month.
What vibehost Will Be
Simple: Dedicated servers for people who ship.
- Transparent pricing (it costs $X per month, period)
- No corporate tech BS
- Documentation written like I'm explaining to a friend
- Celebrating small wins (your first deploy, your tenth user)
- Servers that actually work
What vibehost Is Right Now
A blog. Because I need to prove I can help people before I take their money.
I'm writing about:
- How to actually host projects yourself, not just string together a bunch of 3rd party APIs
- Honest reviews of hosting providers
- Tutorials that don't assume you have a CS degree
- Side project inspiration
The Vibe
This whole thing is intentionally unpolished. The logo is AI-generated and janky. The CSS is brutalist. The site is just HTML files concatenated with bash scripts.
Because perfect is the enemy of shipped.
Your hobby deserves real hosting. Not enterprise hosting. Not scam hosting. Just good-enough hosting for projects that matter to you.
That's what we're building.
Want to follow along? Check back here for updates, or drop your email on the homepage to know when we launch.
— Conway ([email protected])