Wondering if I’m bad at using the search or if there is only a selfhosting community with a lot of subs?

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    As others have mentioned, VPSes (and rented dedicated servers) count as self-hosted. In many situations, a VPS can make more sense than a home server:

    • Better internet connection - a lot of hosts have 40Gbps connections now, and it’s a data center grade connection with a lower contention ratio.
    • Cheaper upfront - no initial purchase cost.
    • Depending on electricity prices, it can be cheaper over the long run too, especially with a $20-40/year one (see LowEndTalk, GreenCloudVPS Budget KVM, RackNerd specials, etc). That’s the case for me in California - just the electricity for my home server costs more than some of my VPSes.
    • Usually better hardware than you’d have at home - often AMD EPYC or modern Xeons (not a 10 year old E3 or E5), enterprise NVMe SSDs, etc.