Renting Servers: Criticisms and Recommendations? (lemmy.world)

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For a growing number of reasons, as with most people here, I am more desirous of self-hosted solutions to replace proprietary ones, yet, as with many others, I am not in a position to fully self-host with a server at home. Any comments on kinda-self-host, where you rent a server from a third party and do all the same shenanigans on it? Specifically, I'm thinking of data storage and streaming.

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[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 22 hours ago

Taking this at different levels...

Offsite storage (assuming you have something at home): Hetzner storage boxes (2 different countries to choose from)

VPS for actually doing something, also Hetzner, but, I also use MythicBeasts for a UK specific host and they also host Raspberry Pi servers (not checked the price), so maybe that's something to consider to dip your toe into the waters

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