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[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just don't forget backups! I use Borgbackup for mine.

I know some people don't want a home server because of the space it'd take up, but you can get pretty powerful mini PCs these days (look for ones with an i3-N305 processor) or buy cheap second-hand ex-office PCs on eBay.

For people that still don't want to have a physical server at their house, you can do a lot of the same self-hosting stuff using a VPS. If you live in an area with expensive electricity (like California or Australia), you can usually get a VPS with a modern processor, ~8GB RAM, and a decent amount of NVMe disk space for $5/month or less, which is easily what it'd cost you just for the electricity usage of a home server.

[โ€“] catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you recommend a good VPS service? I've been meaning to get a Synology, but it's out of my budget for now.

[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like GreenCloudVPS, and they've got a "budget" line that's very reasonably priced: https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale. They're currently running a promotion where if you pay for three years in advance, you get double the RAM. I think they're sold out of their cheapest one ($15/year) at the moment though.

RackNerd is good too. https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/182479/official-b-l-a-c-k-f-r-i-d-a-y-thread-community-endorsed-take-a-peek-racknerds-black-friday/

A lot of hosts had good Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales recently so it's probably worth browsing LowEndTalk and seeing if any deals are still active.