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Hey, I was thinking about getting a VPS and hosting my own single user Lemmy instance. I am trying to think of other things to host. I already have some old hardware running unRAID with Plex, the *arrs, Kavita and home assistant. This is pushing my hardware to the limit but I still want to mess around with some self hosted things. Is there anything you would rather host on a rented server as opposed to a server sitting at your home?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

With Cloudflare Zero Trust there is absolutely no reason for me to host on a VPS anymore. I have old hardware that's all been revived and bootstrapped with cloudflare. If you have good Internet and decent upload IO why not start there especially if it's just for yourself.

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

Because I don't want to be centralized around a single company and service. Any company can provide a vps endpoint. I can literally be set up again in a manner of minutes on another ip, vps, or vps provider.

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

Out of all the battles for decentralization, the convenience Zero Trust provides is a trade-off I'm willing to make. I don't see it being that much of an all-eggs-in-one-basket sort of deal since there's no configuration done on any of my hosts. I simply install the tunnel with the token and that's it. If there's any reason I need to eject from Cloudflare I can simply pull the plug. Zero Trust feels more similar to relying on a nameserver with DNS management.

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

Fuck Cloudflare.

They’re the biggest threat around to a free and open Internet.

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

I'm out of the loop I think, what's wrong with cloudflare?

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

Just a heads up, things like Jellyfin are against their TOS if you aren't paying for streaming with them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Does Zero Trust allow you to run things on ports your ISP blocks, a la email/port 25?

I run SimpleLogin on a VPS and if I can save $11/yr moving it home I’d definitely do it.