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.

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    Can recommend Hetzner (German IP). Good value and so far solid.

    Before that I used OVH (French IP) for years but it ended badly. First they locked me out of my account for violating 2FA which I had not asked for or been told about, and would not provide any recourse except sending them a literal signed paper letter, which I had to do twice because the first one they ignored. A nightmare which went on for weeks. And then, cherry on the cake, my VPS literally went up in smoke when their Strasbourg data center burned down! Oops! Looks like your VPS is gone, sorry about that, here’s a voucher for six months free hosting! Months later they discovered a backup but the damage was done. Never again.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I switched from Vultr to Hetzner, mostly because I was annoyed at the screen-blocking prompt to accept the new EULA (included forced arbitration). Hetzner still has the forced arbitration, but the prices are good and I haven’t found anything to be especially annoyed at.

    • nerin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I have had no problems with Racknerd… That being said I just use my VPS and a tunnel back to my home server but totally worth the $22 is cost me a year.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        What’s with that crazy price jump from $23/year to $18/month? Doubling RAM and cores increases prices by 9x? 2GB RAM and 2 cores is $5-6 at Hetzner, no idea how they think $18/month for 1GB RAM and 2 cores is competitive in any way, that’s a bit of a dark pattern IMO…

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    103·
    2 months ago

    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.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      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.worldEnglish
        21·
        2 months ago

        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.

          • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            2 months ago

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

    • TheDarkBanana87@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      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.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months 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.

    • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I have two of their basic VPS and they’ve worked well. My few interactions with customer service has been less than awesome though.

  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Depends on what you need:

    • As cheap as possible, but actually want a VM: OCI free tier will be way bigger than you will probably need
    • Happy paying money but still want to learn about Linux things: I’ve had good experiences with Scaleway
    • I just want something I can set up and not think about: don’t use a VPS. Architect your site as a pure-static site, stick it in an S3 bucket. You’ll probably be within the free tier unless you do absolutely bonkers traffic, and once it’s running you can leave it alone for literal years without worrying about patches or upgrades
  • beerclue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I use Netcup. Reliable, simple, great deals from time to time (such as Black Friday).

  • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Avoro is really cheap and I can recommend them. If you are student, you might want to look into GitHub Student pack, which includes DigitalOcean credits.