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Why I'm Building Hostim.dev

· 3 min read

These days, hosting your app often means choosing between complexity, lock-in, and sky-high pricing. Whether it's a shiny new platform or a slick developer tool, most of them are just wrappers around the same old giants: AWS, GCP, and Azure.

And those giants are expensive by design.

💸 The Real Cost of Hosting​

Take this comparison:

  • Hetzner: 14 cores, 64 GB RAM → €52/month, cancel anytime
  • AWS r6g.2xlarge (8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM):
    • $133/month with 3-year reservation, upfront
    • $355/month on-demand

That's 7× more expensive – for less power – and that's before you pay for:

  • Egress traffic
  • Storage
  • Managed services
  • "Hidden" costs like snapshots, logs, and bandwidth

🧃 And That's Just the First Layer​

Now stack on the second layer: the cool-looking hosting platform you chose.

They're backed by VC. They're growing fast. And guess who's funding their founders, engineers, and investors?

You are.

If you're paying 7× more on AWS, and then 2× more through a middleman, that's not convenience – that's Cloud Rent.

🌱 Why I'm Building Hostim.dev​

Hostim.dev is my answer to all of this. It's a bare-metal, developer-first PaaS that puts fairness and simplicity first.

I'm a DevOps engineer building this solo. No VC. No team. Just a focused mission:

🛠 Let anyone deploy full-stack apps at fair prices – without big cloud bloat.

Here's what you get:

  • Deploy from Docker, Git, or Docker Compose
  • Built-in PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and Volumes
  • Real-time logs, metrics, and auto HTTPS
  • Per-project isolation with internal networking
  • A 5-day free trial for any project
  • Always-free tiers for databases, Redis, and volumes – perfect for dev and pet projects

🗺 Where We're Starting​

  • Our first region is Germany-based
  • A US rollout is planned

🧩 What It's For (and Not For)​

If it fits in a Docker container, you can host it on Hostim.dev.

Right now it's built for web apps – dashboards, APIs, sites, admin panels, AI demos, side projects, SaaS backends. But we're flexible and evolving fast based on user feedback.

We're not trying to out-feature big players. We're trying to strip away what you don't need and make what you do need accessible.

🚀 What's Next​

We're launching soon.

If you want to try it early:

Let's stop overpaying for complexity. Let's bring hosting back to earth.