Articles on self-hosting
Every GhostPane article about self-hosting — 5 in total.
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How to build web analytics on Cloudflare Workers
Analytics is a write-heavy workload behind a read-heavy interface. On a free tier that constraint decides almost every design choice, including one that is not obvious.
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What self-hosted analytics actually costs to run on Cloudflare
A pageview-by-pageview breakdown of Workers, D1 and Durable Object usage — why the write pattern decides everything, and where the free tier finally runs out.
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Plausible vs Fathom vs self-hosting: the actual trade
All three are cookieless and well built. The decision is not about features, it is about which kind of cost you would rather carry — and that has a clear answer per situation.
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What owning your analytics data actually means
Self-hosted, data ownership and no lock-in are used loosely enough to be marketing. Here are the four questions that separate the real version from the phrase.
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The free analytics options for Cloudflare, compared honestly
Three genuinely free ways to measure a site on Cloudflare, each with a different ceiling. Knowing which ceiling you will hit first is the whole decision.