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Cheapest VPS to get started with (alien.top)

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For someone new to self hosting can you recommend cheap VPS to try simple things with? Can pay by hour like some cloud servers let you do or pay full month in advance.

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

What can you even do with such low specs? What's the use case?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The question is what CAN'T you do with it. If you aren't hosting a large scale site or running a media server and just want to tinker, there's a very short list of things it can't do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What can you even do with such low specs? What's the use case?

Learning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Headscale/nebula server. Something In the cloud to help NAT punch — nginx reverse proxy. I’m looking to leverage my home servers as if they were in the cloud for as little as possible.