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I want to expose my services publicly on my own domain name, how would you guys do that?

I have seen people using Cloudflare, but I don't want to use Cloudflare out of principle. I have also seen stuff on caddy and frp that I've done some rough researching.

What do you guys do?

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (5 children)

What's a cheap vps you recommend?

I use a cheap racknerd vps via low end box. $12/yr.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's crazy cheap price. Does it really have enough bandwidth to stream jellyfin?

[–] MangoPenguin@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Most VPS are on 1Gbps connections, but even if it only has 100Mbps that's plenty.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a data cap? I'm concerned like they only allow me to pass through like a TB or so of data passing through it within a month. If you have users watching your jellyfin server every day that can surpass your limit.

[–] MangoPenguin@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago

Yes generally around 1TB on cheap plans. That's a ton of data though for streaming media, if youre moving more than that getting a higher tier VPS would make sense.

Yes. (Depending on load) I run a server with 10 users, probably 2-3 active at any given time. Works fine.

[–] spork@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hop around a lot. I’ve used Akamai (fka linode), Vultr, DigitalOcean, AWS EC2, and GCP Compute Engine. I wouldn’t recommend the last 2 anymore because fuck big tech. A lot of people will mention Oracle’s free tier, but I don’t trust anyone that looks like Larry Ellison to own a machine with a direct connection into my local network.

I resonate with you as well, so what kind of set up do you use now?

Oracle has a free tier where I run my Wireguard.

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Linode has a $5/month option.

@TheRedSpade @pineapplelover Linode got acquired by Akamai and their service (or at least, *my* VPS) has really gone downhill over the past few years.

[–] shadshack@feddit.online 0 points 1 day ago

Look into Oracle cloud's Always Free tier of cloud instances. I have a few of those and they're decent for free.