I’m a single-user who wants to self-host Baserow, but almost options I see documented cost 4x the current $5/month single user plan.
Is there a way to self-host in the cloud for less than this?
Hi @biobaser, that’s a good question, and actually a tricky one. If you want Baserow to with concurrent API requests, multiple users, etc, it does require some resources to run. Some ideas that come to mind:
- I know that Railway has a quite generous 5 USD per month Hobby plan with plenty of resources to self-host Baserow. They have a template, and Baserow can easily be installed there. I wrote some docs here: docs/installation/install-on-railway.md · 2308-add-installation-instructions-for-railway · Baserow / baserow · GitLab.
- Another alternative could be to get a cheap Cloud server from Hetzner (https://www.hetzner.com/cloud), I recommend getting the 6,37 EUR one with 4 GB of RAM. Install Cloudron+Baserow (Installation on Cloudron // Baserow) or Baserow+Docker (Install with Docker // Baserow).
- A Google search for “cheap vps” will give you many results, although I don’t know about the reliability of these. I’d try to find an affordable VPS with 2 cores and 4GB of RAM, and then install Baserow using Cloudron or Docker.
I hope that helps.
Hi Bram, I appreciate that there is a template to install Baserow on Railway. I can use the template to set it up and get it running with no problems. However, it installs Baserow:2.0.0.
I am currently using Baserow SAAS, which is the most current version 2.3.1. So when I export my existing SAAS workspace so that I can import it into my self-hosted railway site, it fails. I assume this is because some of the newer features are not available. So, I allow railway to update to the newest version 2.3.1. As soon as I deploy the update, the site never comes back up.
Can anyone tell me how to sucessfully deploy Baserow:2.3.1 to railway?