StackFreeks is a technical blog focused on one thing: helping developers, startup founders, and indie hackers make better decisions about their infrastructure and tooling.
The hosting and VPS space is full of marketing copy dressed up as reviews. Pricing tables that leave out key limits. “Comparison” posts that mysteriously crown whoever pays the highest affiliate commission. StackFreeks exists to be the opposite of that.
Who Runs This Site
StackFreeks is written and maintained by Ren, a software developer who runs side projects on VPS infrastructure. Posts are built from official pricing pages and documentation. Where we ran something ourselves — on a throwaway Vultr test server — the post says so and shows the commands and raw output. Writing about self-hosting, budget cloud hosting, and the tools that make solo development sustainable started as a way of keeping notes, and turned out to be useful to other people too. You can see my code on GitHub at github.com/jo6587, including the open-source StackFreeks Tools that run on this domain.
What We Cover
- VPS & Cloud Hosting — Vultr, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Linode, and others. Official pricing and specs, plus our own measurements where a post says so.
- Managed Hosting — Cloudways and similar platforms, for WordPress sites where a VPS is overkill.
- AI Coding Tools — Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and whatever launches next month, explained from official pricing, docs and changelogs, especially billing and usage limits.
- Tech Stack Decisions — When to use what. Framework comparisons, deployment options, cost breakdowns for different scales.
- Developer Tools — CI/CD, monitoring, databases, and the unglamorous infrastructure that keeps things running.
How We Review
We build every review and comparison from primary sources: official pricing and documentation, independent benchmark data, and real user reports from communities like Reddit and G2 — not paraphrased vendor marketing copy.
When sources disagree or a product has a genuine limitation or a misleading price structure, we say so directly. A review that only shows the good parts isn’t a review.
Affiliate Disclosure
Some links on StackFreeks are affiliate links. If you click through and purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This helps keep the site running and the reviews coming.
Affiliate relationships never influence our rankings or recommendations. If we recommend a product, it’s because the pricing, documentation, benchmark data, and real user reports back it up — not because it pays the highest commission. You can read our full Privacy Policy for details on how we handle affiliate disclosures.
Get in Touch
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