hello,

I have recently bought a VPS from Linode and I thinking about using it to host some stuff but I don’t know what I want to host and what I can host. I don’t have a domain name so the traffic is http only :(. but I haven’t hosted anything sensitive so I think it’s fine.

what have you hosted on your VPS or physical server?

  • jjagaimo@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Also if you want a domain but dont care about the actual address, a .xyz domain composed entirely of numbers with less than 10 digits is $1-2 + same as renewal fee per year. $1.22 for me on porkbun

    Just be sure to redact the whois information bc you will get a call from scammers trying to get you to register your domain on some “internet map” for a small fee acting as if its some step in your setup process you havent done yet

  • exu@feditown.comEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    You can install Wireguard or another VPN to encrypt your traffic to the VPS.

  • mojoaar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Instead of buying small VPS’s like this, why not just use OCI free tier? Their ARM compute performs pretty damn good.

    Yes I know it’s Oracle (buuuuh), but this free tier/ARM compute is actually pretty good. Used it before to deploy stuff like Mastodon etc.

    From the site:

    Arm Compute Instance Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory usable as 1 VM or up to 4 VMs

    Always Free 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Akamai Connected Cloud. Removing old branding is a chore and you keep some of the old URLs for awhile to not immediately break things, but they have officially changed the name. Linode is no more unfortunately.