For someone new to self hosting can you recommend cheap VPS to try simple things with? Can pay by hour like some cloud servers let you do or pay full month in advance.

  • ndreamer@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Google has some arm cpu’s for free https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/arm-on-compute

    Appengine is decent for running some services(stateless), i spend 15cents a month for an api i’m hosting.

    OVH has a $1 vps trial for 12months that’s good to play around with, you can install any OS including custom images. It uses older hardware but it’s perfectly fine to get started. I host long running web socket processes on it.

    For front end static react/javascript based websites i use cloudflare, vercel.

    • froli@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They don’t like you running the server at 100% for extended periods of time though if I’m remembering correctly.

      I think it’s the other way around. I’ve been hosting a bunch of service on mine, which I accessed daily. Even SSH’d to it daily and I got flagged for inactivity because of low CPU activity.

      Now I run some bogus CPU intensive task 24/7 and haven’t heard back since.

      • Krieg@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        What can you even do with such low specs? What’s the use case?

        Learning.

      • angerofmars@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        The question is what CAN’T you do with it. If you aren’t hosting a large scale site or running a media server and just want to tinker, there’s a very short list of things it can’t do.

      • Patient-Tech@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Headscale/nebula server. Something In the cloud to help NAT punch — nginx reverse proxy. I’m looking to leverage my home servers as if they were in the cloud for as little as possible.

    • PaulEngineer-89@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Those are interesting but what’s not obvious to me, are those regular rates or teaser rates? I mean a static ip costs roughly $0.69/month from what I’ve read. So that leaves very, very little meat on the bone.

      • eric0e@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I have several low-cost cloud VPS, all claiming that they will not raise the rate, and so far the rates have stayed the same. I don’t know how they do it, and I really don’t care. All the systems I am using came with 1 static IPv4 address. A couple also came with IPv6 addresses which I have not setup.

        One bills me $1/mo, and gives me a 1Gb network interface with unmetered traffic. I have been running more then 5TB/mo through it, for months now, without any complaints.

        Best non-oracle deal I grabbed was a 2 core AMD64, 3GB RAM and 25GB SSD VPS for $13.69/year. I am running a remote Debian desktop on it and using it as a VPN server. They said they will never raise the renewal rate, but they did limited it to 1 VPS per-person, and said it was a one time offer.

    • tm458@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Tread lightly with that oracle recommendation even if its working perfectly for you because people in this sub really dislike it.

        • froli@alien.topBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I don’t think it’s as random as people make it out to be.

          I’m using mine since 2 years now and I got a deletion warning because it was flagged inactive (low CPU usage).

          Since then I have a bogus CPU intensive task running in the background and it’s still going over 6 months after the warning.

          Lots of people probably don’t check their mails or break ToS in such a way that they don’t even get a warning.

  • PaulEngineer-89@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Fly.IO gives you 3 VPSs for free and doesn’t randomly delete them but the free ones are VPS or ipV6 only. That’s not a problem for your use case. A static ipv4 IP is $2/month. IONOS is your next cheapest at $3 then Digital Ocean at $5.

    • OzzieOxborrow@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Depends if selfhosting is about hardware of software. I host a bunch of services in a couple of VPS’s. Ony thing I don’t have to manage is the hardware and I’m fine with that.

    • Metroseksuaali@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Well. If you own a server that is in datacenter i would say that is self hosting. Me and my friends have multiple servers offshore in addition to home servers and we are still hosting to ourselfs.

    • yuri0r@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      +1 contabo, despite their prices they have decent customer support.

      the vps are cheap and their UI is perfectly usable.