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.

  • @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.