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Self-hosted Postgres, caddyserver and docker-compose FTW. **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 18 min read · 20 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary This post discusses the drawbacks of relying on the cloud for startup infrastructure and suggests using self-hosted solutions like Postgres, caddyserver, and docker-compose. It provides a step-by-step guide on setting up a self-hosted Postgres instance and demonstrates how to achieve scalability and load balancing using docker-compose. The post also explains how to use Caddyserver as a reverse proxy for automatic SSL management. The setup allows startups to serve up to 100k monthly users at a cost of $200 per month. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@sdev** · 0 upvotes > > Add monitoring, observability, alerts. (Ain't that hard tbh, we will explore that one day) > > I would be interested by this hopefully next part following the same philosophy. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#docker-compose](https://daily.dev/tags/docker-compose), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql), [#self-hosting](https://daily.dev/tags/self-hosting) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/stop-going-to-the-cloud-and-getting-scammed-200-infra-to-serve-your-startup-till-100k-monthly-user-ecfnhjsfi) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Stop going to the cloud and getting scammed. $200 infra to serve your startup till 100k monthly users in 15 minutes. 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