🏗️ DevOps & Infrastructure

€120 IONOS Shock Bill Forces ForgeCMS into €2/Month Self-Hosting Glory

One €120 bill from IONOS vaporized servers without warning. Now ForgeCMS thrives on €2/month self-hosting, proving managed providers aren't worth the risk.

ForgeCMS running on low-cost VPS stack with Caddy reverse proxy and Codeberg repo

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • €120 IONOS bill triggered ForgeCMS multi-site self-hosting on €2/month VPS. 𝕏
  • Single Go binary serves multiple domains via git repo configs — no DB or containers needed. 𝕏
  • Idempotent deploy script and DNS-flip staging make it dead simple and cheap to scale. 𝕏
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