For this I even use a little Raspberry Pi 400 in my bedroom.
https://joeldare.com/private-analtyics-and-my-raspberry-pi-4...
I’ve self hosted my own stuff for close to a decade now. Nobody has tried DDoSing my setup, because why would they? What benefit would they possibly get out of it? I would be pretty much the only person affected, and once they stop it wouldn’t take long to recover.
There is little to no incentive to DDoS a personal box, let alone by a “internet rando”.
You are drastically overestimating a teen's abilities.
Just pinging the IP over and over again isn't really going to do much. Maybe a DoS attack depending on what the target network has in terms of IPS, but even then it's more likely they'll infect their computers with viruses before they get the chance to actually attack you.
I've personally been on the receiving end of one of those for somehow pissing off a cheater in GTA 5. It definitely happens and it's not fun.
Edit: It looks like this might be automatic. This is something interesting I should look into a bit. It’s probably just extra complexity for my little server, but I’ve got some uses in mind.
Tehcnically my homelab is also on a static public IP as well--this was more an exercise in "could I do this" than "actually necessary," but it's still cool as hell and I'm very happy.
About the only hangup was I had to configure Wireguard to keep the tunnel alive, otherwise sometimes the VPS would receive incoming traffic and if my lab hadn't reached out in a while (which, why would it?) the tunnel would be down, and the proxy connection would die. Thankfully that's built-in functionality.
So, it seems like adding RSS / Atom feeds on a jekyll or GitHub pages site is pretty straightforward.
1. https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed
2. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-s...
atom 2c/4t, 4gb ram, 1tb drive, 100mbit
A few years of uptime at this point
If uninterrupted: some upgrade may be due. ;-)
Kernel security updates are a thing.
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I found Atoms to be unbearably slow, even with Linux. Of course it’s enough for serving websites and whatnot, but it’s baffling how much power they use just… not performing.
Exactly. These sub-$10 VPS instances are great for small projects where you don't want to enter into long contracts or deal with managing your own servers.
If you're running an actual business where margins are razor-thin and you've got all the free time in the world to handle server issues if (when) they come up, those ~$50 dedicated servers could be interesting to explore.
But if you're running an actual business, even a $10,000/month AWS bill is cheaper than hiring another skilled developer to help manage your dedicated servers.
This is what's generally missed in discussions about cloud costs on places like HN: Yes, cloud is expensive, but hiring even a single additional sysadmin/developer to help you manage custom infrastructure is incredibly expensive and much less flexible. That's why spending a hypothetical $5000/month on a cloud hosted solution that could, in theory, be custom-built on a $50/month server with enough time investment can still be a great deal. Engineers are expensive and time is limited.
Uhhh, excuse me but how much are you paying this DevOps guy? This seems like a very American perspective, even valley area. In Europe, hiring a guy would be cheaper.
I can hook you up in about 3 hours.
Fully loaded employment costs are significantly higher than what you take home in your paycheck. It's actually worse in Europe. Take a look at these charts: https://accace.com/the-true-cost-of-an-employee-in-europe/
If you pay someone 1000 EUR in the UK, it costs the company a total of 1245 EUR.
If you pay someone 1000 EUR in Romania, it costs the company 1747 EUR total.
So a $120,000 fully loaded cost might only buy you at $68,000 USD salary for an EU devops person.
But you can't have just one devops person. You need at least 2 if you want to allow one of them to ever take a break, get sick, or go on vacation.
There's a whole band of people who have the technical chops to self-host, or host little instances for their family/friends/association/hiking club. This small margin where you're ok to spend a little extra because you want to make it proper, but you can't justify paying so much and spend time doing hard maintenance. A small VPS, with a shared Nextcloud or a small website, is all that's needed in many cases.