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.
get a free ARM vps from Oracle on their free tier.
They randomly delete free users with all data.
Wow this has never been asked here before.
I’ve been using oracle free to host a Minecraft server for like 9 months. Can’t complain.
They don’t like you running the server at 100% for extended periods of time though if I’m remembering correctly.
I think it’s the other way around. I’ve been hosting a bunch of service on mine, which I accessed daily. Even SSH’d to it daily and I got flagged for inactivity because of low CPU activity.
Now I run some bogus CPU intensive task 24/7 and haven’t heard back since.
Digital Ocean has basic virtual machines for $4us per month: 512 megs of RAM, 1 CPU, 10 gigs of storage.
Pulseheberg is what i use atm
IONOS is vastly underrated.
Fly.IO gives you 3 VPSs for free and doesn’t randomly delete them but the free ones are VPS or ipV6 only. That’s not a problem for your use case. A static ipv4 IP is $2/month. IONOS is your next cheapest at $3 then Digital Ocean at $5.