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which VPS do you recommend? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I want to selfhost my own personal website. This is just for fun, as a hobby and to show off my skills to others. nothing big.

I have my own server home but I want to have something that's separate from my personal stuff.

I do not need any support, meaning it can be as cheap as possible. I do not yet know how much RAM or CPU or storage I need. I guess CPU > 2GHz and 2GB RAM should be enough to start.

daily/weekly backup with rsync in case the hoster goes out of business.

I do not need a domain, I will use a dynamic dns hoster.

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oracle free vps. I run it for wireguard tunnel to circumvent CGNAT on my home connection. Shit company, yes, but works well for over a year. I run Ubuntu server on the VPS.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, those may work. Since you’ve one how does it look like? Are there blocked ports line SMTP? Are the IP good / aren’t blacklisted everywhere already? Thanks.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I was able to open any ports in NAT settings on my router and get access to my network. One day they pit me behind CGNAT. Wo i did the Wireguard tunnel connecting my tiny client ubuntu with outside VPS. Works like a charm. My operator can go screw themselves. I changed my DNS records to Cloudflare on my domain and pointed CF to my VPS server IP. So I can run everything through my domain.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great, but what services are you hosting ? What ports you need?

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Adguard Home DNS, Jellyfin, Gitea, Webmin, webmail, LibreSpeed, SSH access, Wanderer (trail database), Portainer, Apache2 web server and most likely more.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

So, looks like tons of HTTP services and SSH.

[–] TheDarkBanana87@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you explain how to do it?

I've registered recently but cant spin up a vm because its full on my region.

What caveat should i aware of when using this service?

And what instance do you choose?

Thanks :D

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

My server is in Europe somewhere, I run Ubuntu server. Caveats... Doesn't run on a gigiabit connection, but that is honestly not necessary. Once I got notification, that free instances are stopped when not in use for some time. After that they stopped it, I started it again and after that it just runs all the time.