I want to selfhost my own personal website. This is just for fun, as a hobby and to show off my skills to others. nothing big.

I have my own server home but I want to have something that’s separate from my personal stuff.

I do not need any support, meaning it can be as cheap as possible. I do not yet know how much RAM or CPU or storage I need. I guess CPU > 2GHz and 2GB RAM should be enough to start.

daily/weekly backup with rsync in case the hoster goes out of business.

I do not need a domain, I will use a dynamic dns hoster.

  • IronKrillEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Scummy, but not uncommon really. Bring in customers at the cheap tier and then once they’re in your ecosystem overcharge for the higher tiers.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Idk, most of the bigger VPS services don’t have anything like that. Yeah, they have higher tiers, but you usually get similar or better value as you go up.

      • IronKrillEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Good point, I imagine you’re right! I haven’t shopped many VPS services, I was venting about the general practice I’ve seen in other services before.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Fair. Here are some that I find to be pretty consistently competitive:

          • Vultr
          • DigitalOcean
          • Hetzner

          I’ve used each and liked each. They’re rarely the absolute cheapest, but they are usually competitive at all tiers with no pretty much no shenanigans. I’m currently with Hetzner, which has been good for the few months I’ve been with them, but I’ve spent multiple years with the other two.