About SelfHost Atlas

Every app, comparison, and VPS pick starts from primary sources: the project's official documentation and compose files, the provider's current pricing and specs, and the wider community's real-world reports. We cross-check minimum RAM, licensing, Docker support, and difficulty so the numbers on the page match what you'll hit on your own box. Where we've deployed something ourselves, we say so plainly — and where a figure comes from a provider or the docs, we attribute it rather than dress it up as first-hand testing.

Some outbound links to VPS providers are affiliate links: if you shop through one, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That revenue keeps the site free and ad-light. It does not buy a better ranking: where we rank hosts they're ordered on price-to-performance and fit, and our top pick — Hetzner — pays us nothing at all. Where a page recommends a single host to get started on, we link one we'd recommend anyway, and among those we link the one that pays us a recurring commission. Every paid link is labelled as one where it appears. When we can't recommend a partner honestly, we don't link it. Learn more about how affiliate advertising works at paidforadvertising.com.

SelfHost Atlas is built and run by Alex Bern, a solo engineer with two decades spent building and operating software and infrastructure. I'm not affiliated with any of the software or hosting providers featured here, and I don't run ads — the affiliate links are the only way the site earns, and each one is labelled where it appears. Spotted something out of date or wrong? Tell me and I'll fix it — hello@selfhostatlas.com.