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What would tools/services would you recommend for hosting without self hosting? (feddit.uk)

submitted 3 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello.

I've been trying to get familiar with self hosting. The only roadblock I have is I'm unable to do so because I am a university student living in student accommodation where it is against WiFi policy to host anything. And currently I don't even have my raspberry pi with me. My laptop is relatively low specced, so I can't exactly do VMs, but I want to learn more about hosting stuff and the services I can host. I recently signed up for a free managed Nextcloud instance because I wanted to see what it's like and whether I'd be interested in hosting my own.

I know VPS-es are an option but they can get pretty costly, especially for a student like me. Do you have any recommendations, including any cheapz reliable VPS-es for a UK student to dip his toes into self-hosting? Thank you.

P.S I know this isn't exactly self-hosting as I'm technically reliant on third party hardware but it's the only option in my situation.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I’ve heard others recommend Low End Box before but I have no experience, so do some due diligence before selecting any of these!

https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Have a look at gullo.me, their entry level vps was just $2 or something.

Edit: https://hosting.gullo.me/pricing (apparently the cheapest is $3.5 - annually)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Super easy things you can do as exercises and take no serious resources:

build a static site and host it locally
host your music collection
host your video collection
setup the *arr stack
setup home assistant for your dorm room

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

If you're into developing and stuff, GitLab

Plex server

Jellyfin server

ELK stack or security onion

Get steam working, connect via steam link.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If you have a credit card and can pass their validation, Oracle offers a shockingly good set of free cloud options.

4 core, 24gb ram ARM instance, two potato epyc instances, 200gb of disk space and 10tb of transfer and various other little bits and pieces for the grand total of $0.

Some people have had their accounts closed for "no reason", but I'm closing in on 2 years of free shit with no problems, so ymmv.

(I strongly suspect no reason has a reason and a huge number of these people were running VPNs, so I'd wager they either did something stupid/illegal, or someone they gave access to did something stupid/illegal.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I was just thinking about my free oracle server if it would be good for my own lemmy instance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

Mine's running just fine (along with about a dozen other things) on the A1/ARM instance you can get for free.

I wouldn't say performance is stunningly good - the Ampere cores aren't especially fast single threaded, and postgres is.... well, it's not the most threaded thing ever under really low loads - but it does what it's supposed to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 54 minutes ago

Not for longevity. Oracle can shut it off in a blink for no reason