Supabase

You Don’t Need 12 Containers to Ship a Side Project

Self-hosting Supabase means running a dozen containers for what started as ‘I just want auth and a database.’ Instancez collapses that into one binary and one config file — but the real story isn’t the tech. It’s the bet that Supabase’s moat isn’t its infrastructure, it’s developer habit, and that a simpler drop-in replacement can be a correction, not just a clone.

Self-Hosting Is a Lie. You’re Just Renting From Big Tech for Free.

Modern self-hosting isn’t about running your own servers. It’s about orchestrating free-tier cloud services from Big Tech — trading a single vendor lock-in for a multi-point failure cascade. This article breaks down the real cost of building a ‘self-hosted’ analytics stack with Umami, Cloudflare, Fly, and Supabase, and why the fragility might actually be the feature.