What does HackerNews think of hosting?

Plausible seems like a fine choice for simple cases. It is oriented at websites, but you can send events directly to the API: https://plausible.io/docs/events-api

It is self-hostable, too. https://github.com/plausible/hosting

Clickhouse has got a lot better in limited memory environments. They now recommend 4GB minimum.

The production environment that crashed due to Clickhouse OOM was our hosted product a while ago :) After that, we haven't had any downtime on our Clickhouse DB for over a year.

The issue with disk space stems from a bad default configuration. Clickhouse used to have EXTREMELY noisy debug level logging enabled by default with no rotation. This has been fixed in our hosting repo[1] so you get sensible defaults.

If you don't want to worry about downtime, planning disk space or compute capacity, then that's exactly what we offer at https://plausible.io. We process and keep the visitor data on our Hetzner servers in Germany.

1. https://github.com/plausible/hosting

How did you try to get it running? They have a docker-compose setup[1] that was super easy to use. It looks to be 5 months old so if you tried before then, good news, it's easy now!

[1] https://github.com/plausible/hosting

Sure, our main repository comes with a production-ready Dockerfile: https://github.com/plausible/analytics

We also have a separate repository with examples and code for how to host Plausible Analytics with docker-compose: https://github.com/plausible/hosting

The hosting repo includes everything you need including databases, MaxMind GeoIP database, reverse proxy for SSL, etc.

We don't host with docker-compose ourselves because we want to scale our databases independently from the app server.

I'm not sure I understand your question. Secrets should never be committed to source control, whether the repo is public or not. Being open source does not change how we manage secrets in the slightest.

Does that answer your question?