Hi Shaun wallace , SaaS and other paid services are perfectly fine to me, even on their free plan. The CMSs in this article also have (or soon to have) cloud versions. For a side project, self-host is better a way to learn more skills, so it is my choice. That said, I did go over Contentful, Prismic, Storyblok, and GraphCMS in my How To Choose The Best Headless CMS For Your Blogfolio? article and they generally lack features compared to solutions presented in this article. I hope this answer your question.

Hi Aleksandar Bencun , thanks for the suggestion. KeystoneJS v6 is one of my initial choices, but it lacks some features like i18n, and singleton so I decided not to go with it (both features are on the roadmap though). I went over it in my first article How To Choose The Best Headless CMS For Your Blogfolio? . There, I made some comparisons between KeystoneJS v6 and other CMS on the market, you might want to take a look at it!

I'm glad it's helpful to you!

Thanks for the clarification Benjamin Read . I have updated the article to reflect this information!

Good point. In fact, my cloud experience starts with Heroku, which is only a few-click deployment. I am learning more about cloud environments from a developer perspective, so I choose GAE because it is a direct PaaS equivalent to Heroku Dynos (with like 10x steps to set up though 😂). Going over your articles, that's definitely some experience. I agree that troubleshooting in the GAE production environment is really troublesome due to its obscure error messages and logging. It appears we can now simulate the App Engine production environment on the local machine for testing purposes , but I have not tried it though.