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Cloud Rent in Action: How €50 Turns Into €200+

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When you pay for cloud hosting, you're not just paying for compute. You're paying rent. And it adds up fast.

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🏗️ What You Think You're Paying For​

Let's say you need a small SaaS backend:

  • 2 apps (API + worker)
  • 1 Postgres database
  • 1 Redis for caching
  • A few gigs of storage

Pretty standard stack.

💸 What It Costs on AWS​

  • EC2 (2× t3.medium) → €50 / mo
  • RDS Postgres (db.t3.small, 10GB) → €22 / mo
  • ElastiCache Redis (cache.t3.micro) → €10 / mo
  • EBS storage (100GB) → €10 / mo
  • Data transfer (200GB egress) → €9 / mo

Total: ~€101 / mo

That's without backups, monitoring, or any extras. And without any "friendly" PaaS markup on top.

🏠 What It Costs on Bare Metal​

Hetzner: 12 threads (read cores), 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD → €44 / mo.

You could run dozens of those same apps + databases on one machine. But if you don't want to babysit it, you go through AWS – and suddenly you're paying 2× more for the same outcome.

Also, there are risks of course, what if someone nukes datacenter? (Same applies to AWS though).

🧃 Add a Middleman​

Now add a VC-backed PaaS that just resells AWS. Nice UI, Heroku-like DX… but you're paying another ×2 markup.

Your ~€100 stack just became €200-250 / mo.

That's cloud rent: the difference between the infra you're actually using and the layers of middlemen you're forced to pay.

🌱 What We're Doing Instead​

Hostim.dev cuts out the middle layers:

  • Runs on bare metal in Germany
  • Includes Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Volumes out of the box
  • Automatic HTTPS, metrics, logs
  • Plan-based pricing (no surprise bills)
  • 5-day free trial + always-free small tiers

You still get the convenience of a PaaS. But without subsidizing investors, shareholders, or cloud landlords. Just me, your humble wannabe hoster.

So how much would that exact stack cost on Hostim.dev?​

That's €34 / mo. Includes 2 App replicas, Postgres, Redis, and a 50GB volume – with HTTPS, metrics, and logs baked in.

🚀 See It Live​

I just shipped authless trials: paste a docker-compose.yml, and you'll see your app running in seconds – no signup needed.

👉 Try it now