My entire business runs on a £8/month Hetzner VPS. Six services, one box. Everyone talks about scaling. Nobody talks about how far you can get before you need to.

#selfhosting #vps #homelab #smallbusiness #frugaltech

From solar dryers that preserve food without electricity to simple clay fridges that cool without power, #FrugalTech is already here.
It empowers small farmers and manufacturers, it reduces waste by tackling real-world challenges with context-specific, low-cost innovation.

I like the idea of #frugalTech' as described here. Fits in with #heritageSkills, #appropriateTechnology approach from the 1970s, and more recently #solarpunk thinking about future societies. Technology without community is rarely, if ever, an answer.

Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University

"While innovative individuals and communities around the world quietly get on with improving their lives and those around them, it’s high time the rest of us stopped being passive recipients of technology".
#FrugalTech

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