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How I migrated 3 open-source apps off a flaky VPS in one afternoon — and saved ~$80/mo doing it
How I migrated 3 open source apps off a flaky VPS in one afternoon and saved ~$80/mo doing it For months I’d been running three open source apps on a single Coolify VPS: Ghost for my blog, Rocket.Chat for agent notifications, and a Mastra based web scraper that occasionally went feral. It wasn’t catastrophic, just unreliable enough that Google Search Console started flagging 5xx crawl errors and UptimeRobot pinged me awake every few days. I even built a Cloudflare Worker watchdog that redeploy
May 22, 2026·2 min read