Building Our Own Cloud, One Service at a Time

We're tired of paying other companies to run our software. So we're building our own cloud.

Not by renting AWS and putting a UI on top. By running our own servers, our own DNS, our own services. One DigitalOcean droplet, Caddy for TLS, Docker for isolation. Everything else is code we wrote.

Today we have seven services running:

1. congo.gg — The framework website and source browser
2. dev.congo.gg — Development workbench with Docker hosting
3. domains.congo.gg — Domain registration (honest pricing, no tricks)
4. ping.congo.gg — Real-time messaging with magic link auth
5. news.congo.gg — This blog
6. feedback.congo.gg — Public feedback form
7. screenshots.congo.gg — Screenshot-as-a-service

All seven run on one server. Total cost: about $48/month for the droplet plus $5 for the storage volume. That's less than what most people pay for a single Heroku dyno.

The next steps: replace Resend with our own email service. Replace DigitalOcean with our own hosting platform. Domain management with our own DNS. One piece at a time, we're building independence.

Follow along at news.congo.gg or submit ideas at feedback.congo.gg.