Hi! I selfhost a lot of stuff, but I’d like to have some services outside my LAN. Like uptimekuma or maybe a unifiedpush server. What cheap hosters can you recommend? I already have a spare domain name, and one criteria is European location.
Thanks!
For actual hardware: Hetzner. For VPS there are many choices. Digitalocean is cheap and easy, has european data centers, and some decent value add services.
Free.
Use Cloudflare to point directly to your server. As a layer of security on top, ensure only certain emails or certain domains are able to get through to them.
I’ve done this about 1 year ago for my family and works flawlessly. Exposed Nextcloud, uptimekuma, immich, emby, etc. About 8 services.
Cloudflare Tunnel is the best. No need to open any ports, and it works on any internet connection.
Hetzner or Netcup
I’ve been using massivegrid. I think I currently pay about $20 a year with a pretty decent about of network. Works for me so far.
Oracle has an always free tier which provides two x64 AMD based virtual machines. They are more or less cloud based calculators in terms of performance, but out of experience I can tell you it is more than sufficient for a few docker containers.
European locations are available.
Problem of free tier is just to entice devs in the hope that one of them likes the infrastructure and works at a whale
If you use the free tier too much they close it because you used it too much and exceeded their fair use policy
If instead you don’t use it enough, they close it for inactivity
yeah but then you’re interacting with oracle
hard pass
I’m using the Oracle free tier to host pangolin and it is down constantly.
One of my two machines crashed a lot until I moved two Containers to my local server. They are quite small in regards to RAM and at their limit quite fast. Maybe check that.
Also I read somewhere that you could enter credit card details and this kinda upgrades your account in their system though you still do not pay. Something to do with throttling free machines in favor of paid customers.
I thought the ram was fine (the shell is still accessible from their web ui, just non responsive from outside), but I’ll double check.
That second possibility sounds like exactly the kind of nonsense I would expect from Oracle.
Contabo is cheap but has some weird quirks. I pay about five euros a month. My server got mysteriously rolled by two days and they denied anything happened to it. I restored from backups but it was odd.
Hetzner works very well for me.
