Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server

Re:Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server by PaulHoule on Monday March 25, 2024 @11:05AM (#39817222)

You might like the t-series servers from AMZN

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t2/

the t2.large costs about $10 a month and is particularly good for the bursty loads you'd expect for a lab server. You can get a t2.micro on the free tier as well which is a pretty weak machine. I would watch out because I once ran OpenVPN on a t2 instance that had way too little RAM and it went swap crazy and ran up a $200/month I/O bill. (For the life of me I cannot understand why AMZN doesn't support a branded VPN server that "just works")

Note Azure has the B-series which is similar to the AMZN T-series

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-ma...

and my understanding is that this is about as good.

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Re:Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server by tomschwiha on Monday March 25, 2024 @11:22AM (#39817455)

If someone wants to use Amazon, as beginner I would rather recommend Lightsail. It includes some data transfer and I think it has a free tier of 3 months. https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/?nc1=h_ls

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Re:Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server by RandomGuy456 on Monday March 25, 2024 @01:12PM (#39818826)

0racle cloud. Always free.

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Re:Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server by ctxc on Monday March 25, 2024 @02:57PM (#39820030)

TIL ram swap! I always thought processes would get shut down when ram is full...thanks!

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