You are spending several hours per month at least maintaining it leading to it costing more than what you would have paid some WP host
Unless you don’t value your time 😉
You also have not addressed the hardware and uplink cost
I am saying this as someone that hosts a lot of my own stuff.
i have tried doing it out of my own place but it's just not practical, and it only costs like $12/month to rent a VPS that can do the job
the stuff i run, though, i built it all haha, i'm running the vps mainly to showcase/test my stuff, also hosting my own images because it's super simple for me to take photos on my phone and then switch to my ssh file manager and drop the file straight in off the camera files and done
i can also host static assets too like the wasm/js version of my nostr relay chat client https://chat.realy.lol/
but yeah, if you are running ecom it's best to just rent a shop from a specialist shop ecom site hoster
it's not worth it trying to run it out of your house, this can be practical for things like personal/private nostr relays but when there's normie paying clients in the equation forget it, don't waste your time unless you plan to use your skills at a larger scale later
Fair; yes, it takes learning, which takes time
Worth every second.
Worth every sat.
