Usually, I’d aim for the cloud environments for public resources (serving more than like 20 people), as the traffic won’t be hitting your home network.
Additionally, selfhosting a public service like Lemmy on your home environment probably wouldn’t have the same uptime or reliability, as I only have one strong ISP signal, and no backup generator.
However, pricing wise, selfhosting at home is much cheaper for the processing power you get.
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If I did, I would put it behind something like Cloudflare. I do host a number of lower-traffic WordPress sites from home (<1k hits month). Oddly enough I actually do have backup power so reliability is pretty good.
I would not host anything bandwidth-heavy.
I would and do. I have gig fiber which is more than enough for both my home and web service uses. The level of hardware I can bring to bear is far beyond what I could afford in a DC. Sure there are sometimes internet or power problems that you don’t usually get in a DC but they are rare and are made up for by me having physical access to my servers when something goes wrong.
Plus it’s fun.
I have a VPS subscription, which I use as a reverse proxy. Most of my services are on a headless computer in my bedroom. The two are connected with wireguard. (I also connect some SBC’s to the VPS to host some other services)
Works perfectly, haven’t had any connection issue or downtime expect when I manually reboot or service the case.
Currently:
22:26:03 up 230 days
I do, though I run a reverse-proxy (homelab dials out to the proxy, ala cloudflare tunnels, no need for home IP to even be in DNS) using frp in a cloud provider. Hosting critical (to me) things in my lab is just motivation to keep it in good shape.
You are certainly right on cost. I could have bought a (used) server a year for the price of my cloud footprint at peak, though my power bill would probably end up out of control.
I avoid it for security reasons. But I have heard using Cloudflare can alleviate some concerns. And it is tempting to host at home because I have significantly more resources and bandwidth than I pay for on my cloud VPS
Yes, but it’s behind a Cloudflare tunnel, in general it just makes my life easier since it hides the real IP and I can filter out bots and crap before it ever gets to my home connection.
It’s a peertube instance that I mostly use for uploading game clips for friends, but it’s technically public and on the internet.
