A Developer's Guide to Self-Hosting Elixir Applications

Andriel Nuernberg discusses the benefits and methods of self-hosting Elixir and Phoenix applications based on his experiences over the years. He emphasizes the control, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility of self-hosting, while sharing his current stack that includes Hetzner servers, GitHub Actions for deployment, Ansible for configuration management, and Traefik for handling requests and SSL termination. The post also covers the use of mix release for packaging applications, the deployment process for updates and new applications, database management, and monitoring techniques used in his setup. Nuernberg acknowledges the challenges of self-hosting, such as the potential for a single point of failure and downtime during updates, but finds the journey rewarding and enriching for his DevOps skills.