Self-Hosting in Production
Shares rank 7 of 16 technical books by recommenders
Readers recommend it as a deep, practical guide to self-hosting production apps, with real code examples. Optional payment. Caveat: PDF text does not reflow when zooming.
Readers recommend it as a deep, practical guide to self-hosting production apps, with real code examples. Optional payment. Caveat: PDF text does not reflow when zooming.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 4
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 80%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 4 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Free, with optional payment
“Thanks for making it optionally free! I'm going to download it now for 0, check it out, and if I like it, I'll go back and buy it for $50”
Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps” “thanks for making it free!”
Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps”
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| FreeBSD Handbookby FreeBSD Documentation Project | 9 | 1 | 90% | 4 | — | — |
| Self-Hosting in ProductionThis page | 4 | 1 | 80% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
All 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“most resources on self-hosting (actually most resources on anything) were too shallow, lacked real-world examples like code”
“it doesn't reflow when you change zoom on any device, as is pdf-typical”
“Please read and share it.”
“thanks for making it free!”
“Thanks for making it optionally free! I'm going to download it now for 0, check it out, and if I like it, I'll go back and buy it for $50”
“Thank you so much for such a useful book, I really appreciate what you did!”
“The book starts with the basics and builds up to covering the full infrastructure stack”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.