Self-hosting

What is self-hosting?

Self-hosting means downloading the source code of an application, deploying it on infrastructure you control (a VPS, a Kubernetes cluster, a Raspberry Pi in your closet), and running it yourself. You own the data, you own the uptime, and the application's vendor never sees a byte of your traffic.

It's only possible when the application is open source — which TryPost is.

Why people self-host a social scheduler

• Data privacy: every social account token, every post draft, every analytics number lives on your server. No third party reads it.
• Cost at scale: a heavy team running thousands of posts a month often spends less on a $20 VPS than on a SaaS plan
• Compliance: industries (healthcare, finance, government) where data residency rules require everything to stay in-country or on-prem
• No vendor lock-in: if the maker goes out of business or pivots, you keep running

What you trade for it

• You're now ops: backups, security patches, OAuth credential renewals, OS upgrades
• No support SLA: community forums and GitHub issues, not a phone number
• Initial setup time: 30 minutes to several hours depending on stack familiarity

TryPost's stance

TryPost ships under a permissive license. Self-host for free with no usage caps, fork it, audit it, contribute back. The cloud version runs the same code with managed infrastructure on top, for teams that prefer to skip the ops work.