Fair. Here are some that I find to be pretty consistently competitive:

• Vultr
• DigitalOcean
• Hetzner

I’ve used each and liked each. They’re rarely the absolute cheapest, but they are usually competitive at all tiers with no pretty much no shenanigans. I’m currently with Hetzner, which has been good for the few months I’ve been with them, but I’ve spent multiple years with the other two.

Still finishing Yakuza 3, and looking for something spooky to play.

I’ll probably go back to Alan Wake and the Metro series, but if anyone has some great indie suggestions that work well on Steam Deck, I might pick some up.

Idk, most of the bigger VPS services don’t have anything like that. Yeah, they have higher tiers, but you usually get similar or better value as you go up.

And it’s a school of thought I happen to agree with. :) But OP specifically called out homelab vs VPS.

I use a VPS and generate static sites using Hugo. Works fine.

I could host it in my network, but I don’t see a point, and I’d really rather not have a power outage or loss of internet break my site (much more likely at home than at a datacenter). I host pretty much everything else within my network though.

What’s with that crazy price jump from $23/year to $18/month? Doubling RAM and cores increases prices by 9x? 2GB RAM and 2 cores is $5-6 at Hetzner, no idea how they think $18/month for 1GB RAM and 2 cores is competitive in any way, that’s a bit of a dark pattern IMO…

I switched from Vultr to Hetzner, mostly because I was annoyed at the screen-blocking prompt to accept the new EULA (included forced arbitration). Hetzner still has the forced arbitration, but the prices are good and I haven’t found anything to be especially annoyed at.

Really? That’s so odd, I thought as long as you’re not running an exit node, you should be fine. TIL, I’ll have to check my ISP’s policies before setting one up then.

Yeah, 100M is a no-go for me since my ISP provides much more than 100M, and streaming full-res videos would bottleneck that pretty quick.

1G is probably fine for us, but we’ll probably go 2.5G minimum the next time I need to swap out switches, maybe 10G.

Yeah, I trust Mikrotik much more than Trendnet, though I’m happy to use Trendnet for internal switches.

the manufacture published a firmware patch for before any public disclosure was made

They were pretty quick for the stable branch, so I guess the miss is prioritizing it for LTS. But if it’s just the one time, I’m completely fine with that.

Do be aware that Backblaze drive access patterns will probably be quite different from yours. So if there’s a really good deal on something with a bit higher failure rate, but your usage pattern is pretty tame, it may be worth taking the gamble.

But at least you mean well.

I don’t think you even need to try very hard…

One that I wasn’t sure about asked about a NAS. It seemed the question was about dedicated NAS devices, and I built my own NAS (desktop PC + drives + btrfs + samba, etc).

I answered “no,” but I think it would be interesting to capture that distinction in the next one. I.e. Do you use a NAS product?

• Yes (commercial)
• Yes (DIY)
• No

And then a follow-up about what that NAS offers (i.e. just NAS stuff, or can it host apps?).

Then you’re all clear.

I personally want my Jellyfin to be on the WAN, and I have certain devices on my internal network VPN’d to my VPS, which exposes the services I want to access remotely. But if you don’t need that, using the local addr in your DNS config totally works. Getting TLS certs will be complicated, but you don’t need that anyway if everything is local or over a VPN.

I suppose, but then you’re kind of screwed if you want to access Jellyfin outside of your network. I suppose you could use a VPN, but it’s probably easier to just not use the Chromecast (or just accept that it’s going to hit the WAN regardless).

Can confirm, I do this as well for my local services (especially important for Jellyfin), I just point my local DNS server at my local IP and everything works perfectly.

He has cheaper ones too, so check around the shop and find one that fits your requirements.

Good point, I’ll consider MOCA. The main problem is that we have three sets (OTA antenna, satellite, and internet), and I’m not sure which are which, but figuring that out should be quite a bit easier than running cable. :)

I’m not planning on getting anything more than gigabit in the near future, though my city is rolling out fiber and claims to support up to 10gbit.