hello,

I have recently bought a VPS from Linode and I thinking about using it to host some stuff but I don’t know what I want to host and what I can host. I don’t have a domain name so the traffic is http only :(. but I haven’t hosted anything sensitive so I think it’s fine.

what have you hosted on your VPS or physical server?

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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        Akamai Connected Cloud. Removing old branding is a chore and you keep some of the old URLs for awhile to not immediately break things, but they have officially changed the name. Linode is no more unfortunately.

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    5 months ago

    You can install Wireguard or another VPN to encrypt your traffic to the VPS.

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    Also if you want a domain but dont care about the actual address, a .xyz domain composed entirely of numbers with less than 10 digits is $1-2 + same as renewal fee per year. $1.22 for me on porkbun

    Just be sure to redact the whois information bc you will get a call from scammers trying to get you to register your domain on some “internet map” for a small fee acting as if its some step in your setup process you havent done yet

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    I managed to fit an entire Matrix Synapse server on one of those. It works surprisingly well! You will need a domain for it though.

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    Not on a VPS but in my home network. Hosted Vaultwarden (password manager), Jellyfin, a Minecraft server, a reverse proxy, CommaFeed (RSS reader) and Linkace (bookmark manager)

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      I doubt I have enough processing power to host all of that. right now I have only hosted thelounge(IRC bouncer) but don’t know what to host next.

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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    HTTPS HTTP over SSL
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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    The question is, what do you want to host? Audiobooks? A webpage? How about a pinhole + vpn for ad blocking? Your own wiki? A task tracker? A meal planner?