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Wade Thomas
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Cut Your SaaS Bill with a Self-Hosted Setup
A lot of small businesses are paying $300-500/month across multiple SaaS tools — a CMS here, an auth provider there, a managed database on top — without realising there's a leaner alternative.
Here's what's possible with a self-hosted stack:
What you get
A CMS to manage all your content with a clean admin dashboard
User authentication built in — registration, login, email verification, password reset
A database you own and control, with no per-row or per-connection pricing
File and image storage
Automatic deployments when you push code
What it costs
All of this can run on a VPS for around $20/month. No per-seat pricing. No surprise billing. No vendor lock-in. Your data stays yours.
Is it right for your business?
This setup works best for small businesses and startups who want to keep infrastructure costs low, stay in control of their data, and aren't locked into a platform's pricing decisions as they grow.
It takes the right tools and someone who knows how to put them together — but once it's running, it runs cleanly and scales with you.
If you're evaluating your infrastructure costs or planning a new project and want to know if this approach is a good fit, I'm happy to talk through it.
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