The Self-Hosted SaaS Replacements That Actually Work
Five SaaS tools you can replace with a $6/month VPS and open-source software — analytics, email, monitoring, git hosting, and automation.
CI/CD pipelines, build systems, deployment workflows, and operational practices for web platforms.
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Five SaaS tools you can replace with a $6/month VPS and open-source software — analytics, email, monitoring, git hosting, and automation.
A strict Content-Security-Policy is the best XSS defense most sites never ship. On a static site it's one response header and a hash — no WAF, no SaaS.
Performance-monitoring SaaS sells you a wrapper around a tool you already have. GitHub Actions and Lighthouse CI fail the build on regressions for free.
Free-tier static hosting from Render, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, and Netlify is so capable that paying for hosting is now a choice, not a requirement.
Blue-green deployments, canary rollouts, instant rollbacks — the DevOps practices that keep SREs up at night are trivially simple when your output is a folder of files.