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Developer saves on PostHog by self-hosting, warns of migration gotchas

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A developer migrated their PostHog analytics from the Cloud EU service to a self-hosted Hetzner server due to cost savings. The move from 180 EUR/month to 42 EUR/month was motivated by reaching approximately 3 million events per month. The migration encountered several unexpected issues, including a hidden 10,000 events/day cap on the Hobby tier and ClickHouse memory limitations that impacted other services. AI

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Developer saves on PostHog by self-hosting, warns of migration gotchas

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  1. dev.to — Claude Code tag TIER_1 English(EN) · RAXXO Studios ·

    PostHog Cloud EU to Self-Hosted: Cost Math and 4 Gotchas I Hit

    <ul> <li><p>PostHog Cloud EU bill crossed 180 EUR/month at ~3M events, so I migrated to a self-hosted Hetzner box for 42 EUR/month.</p></li> <li><p>Cost crossover sits near 2M events/month for solo studios. Below that, Cloud EU is cheaper once you count your time.</p></li> <li><p…

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