This is the stack I use to host my own and my clients' projects: affordable Hetzner servers, Cloudflare in front of everything, K3s for orchestration and Grafana for monitoring. Not all of these earn me anything; they're simply what I trust in produc...
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Servers
Edge
Orchestration
Virtualization
Monitoring
Servers
Best price-to-performance cloud in Europe. My default for new projects.
LIMARK
Best cheap cloud hosting servers
Cloud-hosting provider for developers & teams
Dedicated Servers Auction
Refurbished server for sale in Hetzner Server Auction
Edge
DNS, CDN and protection in front of all my sites. The free plan is enough for most projects.
Cloudflare
How I expose my home Raspberry Pi cluster to the internet without opening a single port.
Cloudflare Tunnel
Orchestration
Lightweight Kubernetes that runs perfectly on Raspberry Pi.
K3s
Virtualization
Still my choice for production VMs like transcoding and storage servers.
VMware vSphere | Virtualization Technology
Free, open-source alternative to VMware: KVM VMs and LXC containers in one web UI. The first thing I'd install on any spare server or mini PC.
Proxmox Virtual Environment - Open-Source Server ...
The other serious VMware replacement. Feels closest to vSphere if you're migrating a whole cluster.
Xen Orchestra ✦ XCP-ng/XenServer
Monitoring
I switched to it from SigNoz. Lighter, and much better for building graphs.
Full-stack observability for the agentic era | Grafana Labs ...
Classic infrastructure monitoring and alerting. Rock solid.
