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

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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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[–] ikidd 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

My brother in Christ, Oracle isn't worth free.

They couldn't even successfully delete my account or stop billing me after they couldn't fix the simplest problem because they could never associate my support ID with my tenant account. I had to put a block on my credit card at the advice of a oracle support rep to stop getting charged.

Utter dogshit, but I don't know what I expected, doing any sort of business with Larry Ellison.

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

20 year seasoned admin here; Nevermind not being worth "free", I wouldn't use them if they literally paid me to.

[–] ikidd 3 points 2 weeks ago

My experience as well. Walking in to a network or server consult, and finding Oracle DB, there was immediately a caveat with the customer that I would have nothing to do with that shit or they'd see my backside. Since I knew I would be dealing with it somehow anyway, there was a fuck-you factor in any time quotes I gave them.

I wouldn't be involved in migrating it to new hardware, and if the consultants they hired to deal with it needed anything, I'd take my own sweet time to get back to them. Gawd, the Oracle consultants were the worst. But my utter hard and fast rule was that I would never, ever talk to Oracle Support.

[–] Ptsf 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not saying I wouldn't join the contract negotiation meeting, but the amount they'd need to fork over would be substantial.