Hey, I was thinking about getting a VPS and hosting my own single user Lemmy instance. I am trying to think of other things to host. I already have some old hardware running unRAID with Plex, the *arrs, Kavita and home assistant. This is pushing my hardware to the limit but I still want to mess around with some self hosted things. Is there anything you would rather host on a rented server as opposed to a server sitting at your home?

  • BetterNotBiggerEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    With Cloudflare Zero Trust there is absolutely no reason for me to host on a VPS anymore. I have old hardware that’s all been revived and bootstrapped with cloudflare. If you have good Internet and decent upload IO why not start there especially if it’s just for yourself.

    • @timespace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Does Zero Trust allow you to run things on ports your ISP blocks, a la email/port 25?

      I run SimpleLogin on a VPS and if I can save $11/yr moving it home I’d definitely do it.

    • Deceptichum
      1•1 year ago

      Fuck Cloudflare.

      They’re the biggest threat around to a free and open Internet.

    • Count ZeroEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      Because I don’t want to be centralized around a single company and service. Any company can provide a vps endpoint. I can literally be set up again in a manner of minutes on another ip, vps, or vps provider.