I am currently having a self hosted setup in an Oracle free tier vps. I am hosting ( docker ):

  1. Jellyfish
  2. Flame dashboard
  3. Qbitorrent
  4. Radarr
  5. Powlarr
  6. File manager
  7. Portainer
  8. Matrix

So, the question here is should I continue hosting there or should I get a mini or micro PC and host it in my home. I have a fairly good fiber net and have home ups too. Your advice? ( If I could get a new PC or something similar my budget is around 15K (INR) ).

  • Aalahk@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’ve hosted a few services on the Oracle Free Tier for over a year and it worked great, until my instance disappeared and I couldn’t get it back again due to no capacity on Oracle. I’ve read of this happening to a lot to others too.

    The free tier will cost you less (in time, power consumption, hardware etc) but consider you may end up losing access to those services.

    Either way be sure to keep backups of anything important that you would be sad to lose.

    I’ve moved to self-hosting. I started on a raspberry pi 4 for months and eventually upgraded to something a bit more robust. There is a lot to be said about controlling your own hardware but it may end up costing a little more initially than even paying for a VPS.

    • RymdLord@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Yeah I would always recommend hosting locally and then if you want external access use wireguard

  • EmPiFree@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The disadvantage for a home lab is, that you have to keep the power for that server up. Also you need the space (even if it’s just a mini pc). I am also using the oracle free tier and for that it is optimal to keep it on oracle’s site.

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    11 months ago

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