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.
Oracle free tier or look at Low End Box $1/mo page at: https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month/
I use both.
What can you even do with such low specs? What’s the use case?
Those are interesting but what’s not obvious to me, are those regular rates or teaser rates? I mean a static ip costs roughly $0.69/month from what I’ve read. So that leaves very, very little meat on the bone.
Tread lightly with that oracle recommendation even if its working perfectly for you because people in this sub really dislike it.
What about “oracle can randomly remove everything you have” don’t you understand?
Your home PC is the cheapest.
Wow this has never been asked here before.
get a free ARM vps from Oracle on their free tier.
Google has some arm cpu’s for free https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/arm-on-compute
Appengine is decent for running some services(stateless), i spend 15cents a month for an api i’m hosting.
OVH has a $1 vps trial for 12months that’s good to play around with, you can install any OS including custom images. It uses older hardware but it’s perfectly fine to get started. I host long running web socket processes on it.
For front end static react/javascript based websites i use cloudflare, vercel.
Doesn’t paying for hosting defeat the point of this sub? What am I missing?
Depends if selfhosting is about hardware of software. I host a bunch of services in a couple of VPS’s. Ony thing I don’t have to manage is the hardware and I’m fine with that.
Contabo rocks! Cheap and high-performance.
I’ve been using oracle free to host a Minecraft server for like 9 months. Can’t complain.
Oracle Cloud has an always free tier which is perfectly usable.
Try ARM architecture from Hetzner.