linux/self host newbies, now is a good time to get you a cheap server

3 years ago by 🇭 🇾 🇩 🇷 🇦 to c/selfhosted

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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stankbucket 8 points 3 years ago

Get a free oracle cloud account. 24GB RAM 200GB disk 4 core CPU for free. 5gbps connection, IPv4 and 6. I run all of my stuff that I want running outside of my house there and run everything else on my proxmox cluster.

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HolyHell 1 point 3 years ago

I’ve had a seedbox running on it for like a year and it was sick, also had plex and stuff set up. Haven’t used it since mullvad stopped doing port forwarding.

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stankbucket 4 points 3 years ago

That's the kind of thing I would expect them to take down before most other misuses.

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HolyHell 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah probably, I didn’t go crazy with it though since it only has 200gb storage anyway and it’s always been behind a vpn.

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stankbucket 2 points 3 years ago

For torrenting I just pay for putio and have the minimal 100GB account with a script that rclones everything down to my local storage so it is always freed up. I could probably do something similar on oracle with a vpn, but then I'd have to actually wait for most of the torrents to complete.

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HolyHell 2 points 3 years ago

I just looked, $10 a month for 100gb? That’s ridiculous.

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stankbucket 1 point 3 years ago

The storage is mostly irrelevant. I just pull everything down immediately and use them as a bt proxy. Their network effect allows you to get any popular torrents immediately.

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HolyHell 2 points 3 years ago

Public or private torrents though?

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stankbucket 1 point 3 years ago

Doesn't matter

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HolyHell 1 point 3 years ago

I just mean because if it’s mostly public torrents then something like real debrid is way cheaper and almost all magnet links I try are already cached so I just download it straight from them. And for movies and stuff you can just stream without needing to download anything.

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