📰 Dev.to · Vikas Singhal

Buffer bills per channel and Hootsuite $99/user. I self-host Postiz for $15/mo flat: unlimited channels, posts, and team members.

Zendesk and Help Scout charge per agent per month. Here is how I run FreeScout instead - unlimited agents, flat $7/mo, my data on my own server.

Every way to host Fider, the open-source Canny alternative, ranked by real monthly cost. The cheapest managed option, the cheapest DIY option, and why a flat $3

Beszel, Netdata, Grafana, Pulse, Glances, Prometheus, Dozzle - all running on the same 1 CPU / 2 GB box. Here's the full bench, costs, and the one I stopped uni

Datadog costs 15/host/month. I monitor 4 servers for 3/mo total with Beszel.

Beszel monitors your servers with a 10MB agent while Datadog wants 500MB. Every way to host it in 2026 with real costs.

I tested 8 ways to self-host Vaultwarden and compared the real monthly cost of each. From $3/mo managed to free-but-you-maintain-everything.