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Best Cloud Hosting? Pikapods!

The cheapest web-hosting on the Internet?

Odin Halvorson
3 min readMay 4, 2024
“American pika (ochotona princeps) with a mouthful of flowers” by Frédéric Dulude-de Broin is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Need an easy, cheap way to self-host your favorite open-source apps? Meet Pikapods — starting at just $1/month.

Ever wished setting up Wordpress was easier? Pikapods offers one-click installs for tons of apps, from WordPress to Nextcloud and Rocket.Chat. It’s simple, secure, and super affordable.

I’m a fair hand with basic web technology, but the complexities of self-hosting from scratch do not appeal to me. I don’t have much money and I don’t have much time. The time that I do have, I’d much rather spend writing than dingling about with Docker images and ports.

Enter, Pikapods.

Run the finest Open Source web apps from $1/month, fully managed, no tracking, no ads, full privacy. Self-hosting was never this convenient.

Pikapods is a fantastic way to experience open-source. It transforms the way I think about hosting services. By providing semi-managed hosting for a huge range of open-source applications like WordPress and Nextcloud, it makes it incredibly easy to get these applications up and running.

It’s also cheap. Pikapods even offers $5 free credit to start with.

Apps for days

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Odin Halvorson
Odin Halvorson

Written by Odin Halvorson

A futurist/socialist/fantasist writer, editor, and scholar. MFA/MLIS. Free access to my articles at OdinHalvorson.substack.com | More over at OdinHalvorson.com.

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