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Is there a hosting/vps community on lemmy or just selfhosting? (lemm.ee)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Wondering if I'm bad at using the search or if there is only a selfhosting community with a lot of subs?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

As others have mentioned, VPSes (and rented dedicated servers) count as self-hosted. In many situations, a VPS can make more sense than a home server:

Better internet connection - a lot of hosts have 40Gbps connections now, and it's a data center grade connection with a lower contention ratio.
Cheaper upfront - no initial purchase cost.
Depending on electricity prices, it can be cheaper over the long run too, especially with a $20-40/year one (see LowEndTalk, GreenCloudVPS Budget KVM, RackNerd specials, etc). That's the case for me in California - just the electricity for my home server costs more than some of my VPSes.
Usually better hardware than you'd have at home - often AMD EPYC or modern Xeons (not a 10 year old E3 or E5), enterprise NVMe SSDs, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Definitely, just was unsure if self hosting means doing the hosting yourself or hosting for yourself, if that makes sense, if its either or thats nice

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Discussions about hosting on your hardware is more likely to be discussed as “homelab”.