A Story about PocketHost.io

Update

Well, they have begun charging, but not too much, for an instance of pocketbase. sigh

Introduction

Found on reddit:

Hello, creator of PocketHost here. Someone from the
Discord server shared this link.

PocketHost was created to support my own projects, and
other people found it useful. As of this writing,
there are over 3,000 users and ~~4,000~~ 5,000 instances
of PocketBase running.

It's free because I pay for it and don't
charge anyone :)

Maybe some day there will be a paid tier, but for now,
please enjoy PocketHost without restrictions of any kind.

The paid tier that feels best to me is something like
$20/mo for unlimited instances, bandwidth, and storage.
Because of how PocketHost is used, who uses it, and my
personal values, a flat access fee makes more sense than
metering out every byte and CPU cycle. I don't think
PocketHost is a utility computing hosting provider.
It's a specialized hosting provider to make an awesome
user experience for devs and makers looking to maintain
sovereignty while getting up and running quickly.

Reaction

Wow! What is going on? I dug a little deeper an found this person is the real deal. He may make money later but right now the hot PocketBase database is free… and easy to use.

You can explore more at https://pockethost.io

So how does it work? First you create an account at PocketHost.io and then create a pocketbase collection. Mine is called posts. Then you read the docs and figure out that you access the database via a REST API that is simple to use.

Deployment

Using vercel makes deployment so much easier. After testing your code you commit it to github and if you have linked your github project to vercel it is automatically deployed and available world-wide on either <your domain>.vercel.app or your custom domain. Pretty cool.