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linux/self host newbies, now is a good time to get you a cheap server (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Lot of sales for 4th of july (and ongoing ones) where you can pay $10-$14 for a YEAR of a small cheap VPS. Usually only has 1GB of memory, but that's plenty to play around with and learn. If nothing else, a good cheap ipv4 you can use for some port forwarding. There are lots of options, but I've used racknerd and ethernetservers which have been fine.

I have my own server at home, but I bought two small ones to start learning Ansible with in a risk free way. Eventually plan to redo my main server with a complete Ansible setup, really want to hop on that "infrastructure as code" train.

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[–] subtext 8 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Oh wow this is quite an interesting proposition. Do you have any ideas / suggestions for what could reasonably be run on a box with 1 GB RAM?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Try putting an RSS reader on their like FreshRSS! Or a bookmark manager such as LinkAce! Start your own personal wiki/knowledge base with BookStack! Try deploying them natively, then learn how awesome docker is and put them into a compose file. Add wireguard into the mix so your services can only be accessed via a VPN.

Now get yourself a domain if you don't already have one. Pro tip if you want to maximize the cheapness of your setup, you can get a .xyz domain for .99 cents a year! Just has to be funny numbers, but find some numbers that has meaning and its not bad. Now that you have a domain, put those bad boys in a subdomain. Tired of those pesky browser errors? Time to setup a reverse proxy and get yourself an HTTPS cert. Caddy is brain dead easy to do this.

[–] shortgiraffe 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't believe in all my searching for cheap domain names that never came up, thank you.

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

Thank you for the introduction to BookStack, I needed an app for a book/Wiki and that looks great. You use it and like it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used it for a bit and enjoyed how well developed it is, but I moved onto something different as I needed something more freeform. If the structure of BookStack works for you, you can't get much better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What did you move on to, and what features made you move?

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