Even Strapi needs to be hosted somewhere, and that usually involves a recurring fee. I've had great success over the past 2 years building blogs using http://webiny.com, and because they get low traffic, I've only ever had 1 bill from AWS that was around 80 cents US. Source: almost 2 years ago

Strapi is awesome, I've been a fan of the project since its early days. However, I've been closely watching Webiny too. It's easier to host because you don't have to worry about running Docker containers or installing MongoDB on your local machine. Instead you put it on your AWS account (can be done with a few clicks), define your content models once it's there and you then only pay for usage. http://webiny.com. Source: about 2 years ago

Yeah I hear you, SAAS CMS platforms can get prohibitively expensive really quickly after the initial free tier expires. I've found hosting Strapi (or similar) on Heroku has saved me the cost of keeping a server instance running, which usually would cost $5-10 per month. However, the most cost effective for me so far has been Webiny. It's serverless so you install it on AWS and typically don't pay as much (if... Source: over 2 years ago

Otherwise if you want a framework to build on, there's Redwood (which works particularly well on Netlify and Vercel) or Webiny (for AWS, Azure and others). - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

Also I use taskbook to store tasks and notes across multiple boards from within a terminal. Furthermore I use a commands-manager - cli utility to group, manage and execute stored commands by patterns, grouppings, priorities. For example I have some notes stored by taskbook in order to search for items related to `english` topic I can use. Source: over 1 year ago

Cloudcmd - browser-based ssh terminal and file manager (read: byobu, screen, and all the other terminal apps like taskbook, now count as being 'self-hosted') - - there are a few browser-based RDP programs like Apache Guacamole Server, but I haven't tried them (yet). Source: over 2 years ago