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Cheap Black Friday VPS (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by voodoologic@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I was searching this thread for an alternative to dreamhost which has unlimited monthly traffic. I found this Black Friday link from a year ago which still works!

https://www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday/

Do I need unlimited? Probably not, but I was worried about going over.

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[-] mtx0@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

out of curiosity, what applications/purpose could this serve for someone who just runs a basic homelab? intrigued!

[-] noaccess@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Can someone provide some use cases for this? Curious how I can extend my homelab via this.

[-] WetFishing@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I use one of these VMs for two things. Monitoring my network back home using Uptime Kuma and Tailscale. As well as as a Tailscale exit node (essentially a VPN).

[-] clappingcactus@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

My racknerd server is from this same deal last year. Here's how I set it up:

  1. TailScale-only traffic in. Any traffic is allowed out. Setup as exit node. Suddenly it's a personal-use-only VPN for when I'm on a public network. That's already worth $1 a month.
  2. Added Technitium DNS so I have an always on DNS-sinkhole. Set this as the DNS server for my whole tailnet so I can monitor all my internet traffic. Replaced my old NextDNS subscription (was $2 a month).
  3. Setup a Syncthing encrypted service running on the server. Then connected all my devices to each other with Syncthing-over-TailScale to give me a "dropbox replacement", with this RackNerd server acting as a source of truth since it's always online.
  4. Setup a CouchDB instance so I could run Obsidian-LiveSync with a centrally always-on computer.
  5. I setup two tiny web servers running on it. One has an encrypted html file that holds a picture of my passport. One has an encrypted html file that has part of my password for paypal. This is my insurance that even if I'm traveling and had my backpack stolen, I can always just use any internet-connected computer to prove who I am and move some money around.

Every time these days I want to run a service I always ask myself "do I need it always on?" and then set it up on my Racknerd VPS.

My next project might be a permanent link shortener service for my blog/personal use, so I can setup a personal permalink-type service.

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