Same, but I've never once touched Docker and am doing everything old skool on top of Proxmox. Others may or may not like this approach, but it has many of the benefits in terms of productivity (ease of experimentation, migration, upgrade etc)
ThorrJo
joined 1 year ago
Go with used & refurb business PCs right out of the gate instead of fucking around with SBCs like the Pi.
Go with "1-liter" aka Ultra Small Form Factor right away instead of starting with SFF. (I don't have a permanent residence at the moment so this makes sense for me)
Matrix is awful.
I will say that they have been putting a lot of effort into making it better, and it is better than it was, for sure. But it still sucks.
I'm picky about software FWIW. Maybe in another couple years they'll have basic UX, security, and performance figured out.
PiVPN on VPS works great btw
I'm curious if leaving the data-at-rest encrypted on the filesystem using something like EncFS would mostly solve this. (EncFS encrypts all the files on disk and gives you a mount point to access the corresponding cleartext filesystem)
haha this is amazing, I made similar comments in 3 threads or so, and people commented back about OptiPlex SFF in all of 'em :D
when I first started doing this again for real about 3 years ago, I built a stack of 3x OptiPlex SFF that I got from pcsforpeople.com (discount refurb gear for po' folk), plus an Amazon refurb. I've started migrating to the "1-liter" USFF business PCs, but I still have the best of the OptiPlex SFFs - an i7-4770 with 32GB of RAM which now is my database server and NAS box.
It's amazing how well the high-end 4xxx Intel chips still hold their own a decade after their release.
For people who don't like cloudflare, it's also possible to self-host your reverse proxy, using e.g. nginx on the front end, and rathole or frp for the reverse tunnel. I use ssh if I need a forward proxy too (so outbound requests don't come from my "real" IP) and that's not super ideal, but it works.
This is of course considerably more difficult than something that's point-and-click, but for me, using Cloudflare defeats the purpose of self-hosting.
I have built & rebuilt such a setup several times now and it gets better documented every time, soon I'll release a step by step HOWTO.
FWIW, I haven't seen a similar change from Ramnode after they sold to InMotion. They still seem quite good, and I'm picky. A bit more info on my experience (plus my affiliate code) upthread.
The lower you go in price, in general the more problems you'll have with overselling, poor management, poor support, etc.
After coming back to this thread and reading some more comments, it sure looks like I could save up to $3 a month over what I pay for cheap VPS at Ramnode, but in all my years of being a Ramnode customer, they haven't pissed me off, and their support has always been excellent. I have no desire to move, and I'm somebody who has very little money, so cheaper hosting would make a difference.
Just a data point, good luck in your search!
That price is pretty fair for what you get.
I've had really good experiences with Ramnode for years. I run VPN endpoints, reverse proxies, and various web apps in a couple of their data centers and have had about as close to zero problems as possible, plus their support is quite competent when something does break. Performance is what I expect 99% of the time.
Before that, Linode was good for me as well, and I still have friends who like it.
If you do try Ramnode out, here's my affiliate code, I am broke as fuck and really appreciate it. https://clientarea.ramnode.com/aff.php?aff=4335
I'm currently running 16GB zramswap on my 32GB server, and 24GB on Optane / 3D XPoint on my 64GB server ๐