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Yeah, that's kinda what I'm dealing with now. I run a few small services for nostritches, but it finally built up to ~$150 in cloud charges a month out of my pocket. Some stuff I just did wrong (like letting many docker apps install their own postgres) and to some degree it just grew.

I rented dedicated hardware much cheaper and with more storage (an issue for image/video hosting) but now I get to go through my spaghetti and move it without losing stuff (hopefully).

The skills will last a lifetime though, but it sucked tonight. I'm really dreading trying to move peertube. LOL
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bot 2y ago

How much would it cost to buy your own server and run it from your house? I know some fedi ppl do that.

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nobody 2y ago

I am building my house right now, and may afterwards. The issue is upstream bandwidth. I run image and video hosting. They have fiber in this area that’s 3Gbps up/down, for a huge setup fee, so that’s waiting until I get in my forever home later this year.

Hardware, I’ll prolly drop about 2 grand, but only because I’ll drop a couple of Intel ARC cards in there for video transcoding.

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Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb) 2y ago

Internet and hardware are the main drivers. Electricity is the maintenance part of the bill.

Depending on what you want to host, an adequate server is important. And depending on how many clients you want to satisfy, you need a good uplink and a serviceable downlink.

I use a FriendlyElec NanoPi R6s at home that is connected via VPN to a 5 bucks VPS, acting as a frontend and workaround for my dynamic IP - most non-business internet providers don't provide a static IP, so you might have to dig into that hole too.

In total; What you want to run denotes the hardware you need and the speeds your internet must provide.