Hi! I selfhost a lot of stuff, but I’d like to have some services outside my LAN. Like uptimekuma or maybe a unifiedpush server. What cheap hosters can you recommend? I already have a spare domain name, and one criteria is European location.

Thanks!

  • Comexs@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Any good cheap VPS for something like Netbird server or Headscale with servers available in the United States.

  • Ferawyn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    For actual hardware: Hetzner. For VPS there are many choices. Digitalocean is cheap and easy, has european data centers, and some decent value add services.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      Are they an american company? European data centers mean nothing if they are an american company.

  • Vaggumon@lemmy.zipEnglish
    14·
    10 hours ago

    Hetzner has auctions on dedicated servers that can be really good. But if you just need a cps, check out Contabo.

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        I think I get those emails twice a year. And it’s usually same price and double storage for the VPSes. Can recommend netcup.de as well. They used to be a bit cheaper than today, but I guess every hoster increased price within the last year.

  • patruelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    7 hours ago

    Free.

    Use Cloudflare to point directly to your server. As a layer of security on top, ensure only certain emails or certain domains are able to get through to them.

    I’ve done this about 1 year ago for my family and works flawlessly. Exposed Nextcloud, uptimekuma, immich, emby, etc. About 8 services.

    • Peri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      46 minutes ago

      Cloudflare Tunnel is the best. No need to open any ports, and it works on any internet connection.

  • EntropyPure@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    10 hours ago

    Oracle has an always free tier which provides two x64 AMD based virtual machines. They are more or less cloud based calculators in terms of performance, but out of experience I can tell you it is more than sufficient for a few docker containers.

    European locations are available.

    • paris@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      I run one of these free cloud vms as a reverse proxy for my reverse proxy. It runs rathole, which my homelab rathole client connects to, and it patches traffic through ports 80/443 into my homelab to my caddy container. My home ip is never made public and I don’t have to forward any ports at home or worry about traversing NAT. It’s a neat setup, but rathole hasn’t been updated in some time and I’m looking to replace it with an actively developed alternative like gost or connet.

      • EntropyPure@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        One of my two machines crashed a lot until I moved two Containers to my local server. They are quite small in regards to RAM and at their limit quite fast. Maybe check that.

        Also I read somewhere that you could enter credit card details and this kinda upgrades your account in their system though you still do not pay. Something to do with throttling free machines in favor of paid customers.

        • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 hours ago

          I thought the ram was fine (the shell is still accessible from their web ui, just non responsive from outside), but I’ll double check.

          That second possibility sounds like exactly the kind of nonsense I would expect from Oracle.

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    9 hours ago

    I’ve been using massivegrid. I think I currently pay about $20 a year with a pretty decent about of network. Works for me so far.

    • SanPe_@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      9 hours ago

      Not really, as I want to watch my services from afar to be notified even if my home internet connection goes down.

    • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      9 hours ago

      OP said they wanted some stuff outside their home LAN which is very understandable for certain things, service checks which they mentioned specifically.

  • jafra@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1·
    10 hours ago

    If shared hosting isn’t a problem Uberspace might be interesting. I used it as long as i didn’t solely self host.

  • NateNate60@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 hours ago

    Contabo is cheap but has some weird quirks. I pay about five euros a month. My server got mysteriously rolled by two days and they denied anything happened to it. I restored from backups but it was odd.