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Self-hosting discussion

6 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/self-hosting-discussion.211455/

Desmond
Desmond Original post #1
Jul 27, 2022 at 10:09 PM
Self-hosting means to run websites and services on your own infrastructure or your own cloud. This could either be a spare PC in your own home, a Raspberry PI or running on a dedicated server or VPS.

This thread is for discussion on all topics related to self-hosting services on infrastructure you control. Topics including but not limited to:

  • Hosting service providers.
  • Self-hosted applications or services.
  • Costs.
  • Setup advice

Let me start with my own setup:

I have my own VPS that is running my homepage: Desmond David

On this server I am running the following services:

  • Homepage running on Nginx.
  • SearXNG search engine: SearXNG
  • A Bitwarden server.
  • A Syncthing node.
  • A MariaDB server.

All of this on a $5 per month DigitalOcean VPS with 1 vCPU and 1 GB of RAM.

I am planning on hosting more services, but I might need to get a larger server for these:

  • Wordpress site
  • Email server
Nerevarine
Nerevarine #2
Jul 27, 2022 at 11:26 PM
I have 2 separate oracle cloud accounts running openvpn. One is in India and another is in Germany.
I just leave the germany one connected. The indian server I use to access indian govt websites like parivahan.
Costs - Completely free forever. Although speeds arent that great, its adequate for torrenting.

I also have a college one drive workspace (1TB) as well as a office365 family subscription (6 TB) to regularly backup my files from my home nas. Backups include photos, movies, tv shows etc.
Desmond
Desmond #3
Jul 28, 2022 at 4:13 PM
Nerevarine said:
I have 2 separate oracle cloud accounts running openvpn. One is in India and another is in Germany.
I just leave the germany one connected. The indian server I use to access indian govt websites like parivahan.
Costs - Completely free forever. Although speeds arent that great, its adequate for torrenting.

I also have a college one drive workspace (1TB) as well as a office365 family subscription (6 TB) to regularly backup my files from my home nas. Backups include photos, movies, tv shows etc.
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What is the config of the VMs that you are running OpenVPN on? Also why not Wireguard instead?

Given the state of the internet in India, I think I will get a VPS outside India as well.
Nerevarine
Nerevarine #4
Jul 28, 2022 at 10:18 PM

Shape configuration​

Shape: VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro
OCPU count: 1
Network bandwidth (Gbps): 0.48
Memory (GB): 1
Local disk: Block storage only

Running Ubuntu Server.

I wanted to get it running asap, so didnt have much time to tinker. OpenVPN is pretty easy to set up. Perhaps in the future ill upgrade to wireguard.
Desmond
Desmond #5
Jul 29, 2022 at 1:21 AM
Looks cool. How did you get this for free?
Nerevarine
Nerevarine #6
Jul 29, 2022 at 2:53 AM
Oracle cloud gives you 1 free instance per email.