- Lower upfront costs and quicker to set up as you don't have to buy the hardware
- Don't have hardware taking up space in your home
- Flexibility of being able to scale up or down your specs (or get rid of the VPS entirely) at the click of a button
- Don't have to open your home network to the internet
- Better uptime (not your job to fix outages)
OnionFutures
joined 1 year ago
When I was young, I spent a lot of time playing Extreme Paintbrawl. I only learned years later that it had achieved notoriety as one of the worst video games of all time. Looking back it's not hard to see why. But back when it was one of the very few games we had for PC, I got a lot of enjoyment out of it.
Also using Hetzner, can't complain and the pricing is good.
Services vary a lot on how they are deployed and their dependencies, etc. The knowledge I have (and honestly I don't have much) I just built over time, tinkering with different set-ups and trying to debug problems when they arose. So I guess just choose a few difference services and try to get them working (choose low-stakes ones at first, where the risk of getting pwned or losing everything is very low). Docker can abstract away a lot, so maybe try more direct deployments if you are interested in learning.