I Measured What Self-Hosted Chatwoot Actually Uses. 348,703 Messages, 1.8 GB of

<p>Founders coding with AI tend to land in the same place. The first version is a $200/month no-code stack: a page builder, a chatbot, an auth gate, a workflow tool, two or three

<p>Last month my WhatsApp stack moved 89,479 messages. I got no invoice for any of them.</p> <p>That is not a brag, it is the setup for an honest accounting. Because "self-hosting

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<p>Ghost pricing is genuinely confusing because the software is open-source but the managed hosting — Ghost Pro — runs on a separate billing model that catches people off guard.

<h2> Two years of self-hosted cloud storage </h2> <p>I've been running my own Nextcloud + MinIO + ScsDriver stack since early 2024. Here's what I learned, what surprised me, and

<p>GPT-5.4 shipped on March 5. Seven weeks later, on April 23, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.5 — and the pace alone tells you something about where this race is headed. This isn't