Lot of sales for 4th of july (and ongoing ones) where you can pay $10-$14 for a YEAR of a small cheap VPS. Usually only has 1GB of memory, but that’s plenty to play around with and learn. If nothing else, a good cheap ipv4 you can use for some port forwarding. There are lots of options, but I’ve used racknerd and ethernetservers which have been fine.

I have my own server at home, but I bought two small ones to start learning Ansible with in a risk free way. Eventually plan to redo my main server with a complete Ansible setup, really want to hop on that “infrastructure as code” train.

  • stankbucket@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Get a free oracle cloud account. 24GB RAM 200GB disk 4 core CPU for free. 5gbps connection, IPv4 and 6. I run all of my stuff that I want running outside of my house there and run everything else on my proxmox cluster.

    • SamSpudd@lemmy.lukeog.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Problem is Oracle sometimes just hates people, so declines all attempts to get the Free Tier.

      I know from experience

    • XiberKernel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      As someone who once had to work with Oracle databases and licensing as a part of their job, i will never willingly use another Oracle product.

    • HolyHell@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’ve had a seedbox running on it for like a year and it was sick, also had plex and stuff set up. Haven’t used it since mullvad stopped doing port forwarding.

        • HolyHell@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yeah probably, I didn’t go crazy with it though since it only has 200gb storage anyway and it’s always been behind a vpn.

          • stankbucket@lemmy.oneEnglish
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            1 year ago

            For torrenting I just pay for putio and have the minimal 100GB account with a script that rclones everything down to my local storage so it is always freed up. I could probably do something similar on oracle with a vpn, but then I’d have to actually wait for most of the torrents to complete.