Self-hosted tools, vibe coding, and other such nonsense.
Here’s a scenario that keeps VPS operators up at night: your hosting provider suspends your account. Maybe they detected “suspicious activity” that was actually legitimate traffic. Maybe they had a billing dispute. Maybe they just decided they didn’t want your business anymore.
Doesn’t matter why. What matters is whether you can rebuild somewhere else in an afternoon or whether you’re scrambling through support tickets hoping someone will give you access to your data.
The term “vibe coding” is a bit silly, I’ll admit. But it describes something absurdly powerful that’s made my professional life meaningfully better.
I work in digital marketing. I’m technical enough to read code, troubleshoot issues, and hack together solutions when needed. But writing production-quality applications from scratch? That was always just outside my reach - close enough to be frustrating, far enough to feel like a legitimate barrier.
Then something shifted.