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Lot of sales for 4th of july (and ongoing ones) where you can pay $10-$14 for a YEAR of a small cheap VPS. Usually only has 1GB of memory, but that's plenty to play around with and learn. If nothing else, a good cheap ipv4 you can use for some port forwarding. There are lots of options, but I've used racknerd and ethernetservers which have been fine.

I have my own server at home, but I bought two small ones to start learning Ansible with in a risk free way. Eventually plan to redo my main server with a complete Ansible setup, really want to hop on that "infrastructure as code" train.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Get a free oracle cloud account. 24GB RAM 200GB disk 4 core CPU for free. 5gbps connection, IPv4 and 6. I run all of my stuff that I want running outside of my house there and run everything else on my proxmox cluster.

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

As someone who once had to work with Oracle databases and licensing as a part of their job, i will never willingly use another Oracle product.

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

Problem is Oracle sometimes just hates people, so declines all attempts to get the Free Tier.

I know from experience

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

I've seen a few comments from people who've had their Oracle free tier accounts deleted with no warning.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve had a seedbox running on it for like a year and it was sick, also had plex and stuff set up. Haven’t used it since mullvad stopped doing port forwarding.

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

That's the kind of thing I would expect them to take down before most other misuses.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah probably, I didn’t go crazy with it though since it only has 200gb storage anyway and it’s always been behind a vpn.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For torrenting I just pay for putio and have the minimal 100GB account with a script that rclones everything down to my local storage so it is always freed up. I could probably do something similar on oracle with a vpn, but then I'd have to actually wait for most of the torrents to complete.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just looked, $10 a month for 100gb? That’s ridiculous.

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

The storage is mostly irrelevant. I just pull everything down immediately and use them as a bt proxy. Their network effect allows you to get any popular torrents immediately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Public or private torrents though?

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

I just mean because if it’s mostly public torrents then something like real debrid is way cheaper and almost all magnet links I try are already cached so I just download it straight from them. And for movies and stuff you can just stream without needing to download anything.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s not as detectable as you think. One of the major things most VPS companies tout, is that the data is fully encrypted and private. So they aren’t scanning the files, or the running processes, or anything else about what is being done with the server.

So unless something external to the company is provided, which acts as proof, they won’t shut things down.