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.

  • @just_another_personEnglish
    6•24 days ago

    Super easy things you can do as exercises and take no serious resources:

    • build a static site and host it locally
    • host your music collection
    • host your video collection
    • setup the *arr stack
    • setup home assistant for your dorm room
    • @foggyEnglish
      2•24 days ago

      If you’re into developing and stuff, GitLab

      Plex server

      Jellyfin server

      ELK stack or security onion

      Get steam working, connect via steam link.

      • AlexanderESmith
        2•24 days ago

        Gitlab is a bloated mess. I don’t know anything about forgejo, but I’m hearing a lot of good things.

        At any rate, you don’t need either of them. Learning how to host a raw git repo is extremely beneficial, even if you want to move to Github/Gitlab/Forgejo/etc later.