hello,
I have recently bought a VPS from Linode and I thinking about using it to host some stuff but I don’t know what I want to host and what I can host. I don’t have a domain name so the traffic is http only :(. but I haven’t hosted anything sensitive so I think it’s fine.
what have you hosted on your VPS or physical server?
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Linode? You mean Akamai Connected Cloud?
Yes. Which is the real name of the company?
Akamai Connected Cloud. Removing old branding is a chore and you keep some of the old URLs for awhile to not immediately break things, but they have officially changed the name. Linode is no more unfortunately.
Also if you want a domain but dont care about the actual address, a .xyz domain composed entirely of numbers with less than 10 digits is $1-2 + same as renewal fee per year. $1.22 for me on porkbun
Just be sure to redact the whois information bc you will get a call from scammers trying to get you to register your domain on some “internet map” for a small fee acting as if its some step in your setup process you havent done yet
You can install Wireguard or another VPN to encrypt your traffic to the VPS.
Instead of buying small VPS’s like this, why not just use OCI free tier? Their ARM compute performs pretty damn good.
Yes I know it’s Oracle (buuuuh), but this free tier/ARM compute is actually pretty good. Used it before to deploy stuff like Mastodon etc.
From the site:
Arm Compute Instance Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory usable as 1 VM or up to 4 VMs
Always Free 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month
Thank you for recommending it 😀☺️
get a free domain with duckdns
Thank you for mentioning it :D
or here: https://freedns.afraid.org/
Also note that if it’s just for personal use, you don’t have to have a domain for HTTPS. You can self sign, or create your own certificate authority, you just need to clients to trust it. But domains can be cheap or even free, so it’s better to get one so you don’t have to specially configure your devices.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web HTTPS HTTP over SSL SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption VPN Virtual Private Network VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.
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I managed to fit an entire Matrix Synapse server on one of those. It works surprisingly well! You will need a domain for it though.
The question is, what do you want to host? Audiobooks? A webpage? How about a pinhole + vpn for ad blocking? Your own wiki? A task tracker? A meal planner?
Not on a VPS but in my home network. Hosted Vaultwarden (password manager), Jellyfin, a Minecraft server, a reverse proxy, CommaFeed (RSS reader) and Linkace (bookmark manager)
