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?
A VPS will always have a better uptime, bandwidth and latency than your home network, because of it’s enterprise grade carrier. And the electric costs to run everything at home are never mentioned, but they are real when you run many services.
I host everything on a VPS for these reasons.
Yeah, very good points, there. Plus, there’s the possibility of violating my ISP’s TOS because they changed some legalese that’s buried in tiny print, and then I’m SOL for any internet whatsoever. (Comcast is the only dependable ISP in my area)