I can use a 4$ VPS for my own personal cloud. I will never pay 45$ for that.
There's a whole band of people who have the technical chops to self-host, or host little instances for their family/friends/association/hiking club. This small margin where you're ok to spend a little extra because you want to make it proper, but you can't justify paying so much and spend time doing hard maintenance. A small VPS, with a shared Nextcloud or a small website, is all that's needed in many cases.
I’ve self hosted my own stuff for close to a decade now. Nobody has tried DDoSing my setup, because why would they? What benefit would they possibly get out of it? I would be pretty much the only person affected, and once they stop it wouldn’t take long to recover.
There is little to no incentive to DDoS a personal box, let alone by a “internet rando”.
The chance of meeting someone online that’s that immature and spiteful, and at the same time possesses enough knowledge to successfully execute a DDoS attack is infinitesimally small.
> enough knowledge to successfully execute a DDoS attack
You are drastically overestimating a teen's abilities.
Just pinging the IP over and over again isn't really going to do much. Maybe a DoS attack depending on what the target network has in terms of IPS, but even then it's more likely they'll infect their computers with viruses before they get the chance to actually attack you.
I've remember when I've played Rust, year or two ago on public server.
Some kid was mad, because thought that some one was cheating.
He managed to DOS that server.
And globally it doesn't sound hard: google -> ddos > low orbit ion canon(as one of the most famous) -> fire in the hole!
Especially if you are dumb enough to just run that tool as is, without any tries to hide your own personality.
On the contrary, you're vastly underestimating the availability of various "booting" and "IP stressing" services that sell a 30 minute 1Gbps+ DDoS attack to anyone for $5. Launching a DDoS attack is just as easy, if not easier than, signing up for Netflix. A simple search for "IP stresser" should yield dozens if not hundreds of results.
I've personally been on the receiving end of one of those for somehow pissing off a cheater in GTA 5. It definitely happens and it's not fun.
That’s interesting. Do use a dynamic IP at home in this case or static? If it’s dynamic, what does the update process look like?
Edit: It looks like this might be automatic. This is something interesting I should look into a bit. It’s probably just extra complexity for my little server, but I’ve got some uses in mind.
like dvdkon says, only the VPS has a static public address, and my homelab reaches out to keep the tunnel alive.
Tehcnically my homelab is also on a static public IP as well--this was more an exercise in "could I do this" than "actually necessary," but it's still cool as hell and I'm very happy.
About the only hangup was I had to configure Wireguard to keep the tunnel alive, otherwise sometimes the VPS would receive incoming traffic and if my lab hadn't reached out in a while (which, why would it?) the tunnel would be down, and the proxy connection would die. Thankfully that's built-in functionality.
No, unfortunately I haven’t built an RSS feed for my blog. I thought RSS was dead, but I’ve noticed a resurgence lately. My blog is a big collection of markdown files these days. I don’t even run the static site generator myself, just using whatever default Jekyll magic GitHub Pages does. Maybe this is something I should get to soon.
I found Atoms to be unbearably slow, even with Linux. Of course it’s enough for serving websites and whatnot, but it’s baffling how much power they use just… not performing.
You get a lot for the bucks, good luck finding a VPS with those spec for less. And the power cunsumtion is the DC problem - maybe they run on solar, wind, hydro...
> I can use a 4$ VPS for my own personal cloud. I will never pay 45$ for that.
Exactly. These sub-$10 VPS instances are great for small projects where you don't want to enter into long contracts or deal with managing your own servers.
If you're running an actual business where margins are razor-thin and you've got all the free time in the world to handle server issues if (when) they come up, those ~$50 dedicated servers could be interesting to explore.
But if you're running an actual business, even a $10,000/month AWS bill is cheaper than hiring another skilled developer to help manage your dedicated servers.
This is what's generally missed in discussions about cloud costs on places like HN: Yes, cloud is expensive, but hiring even a single additional sysadmin/developer to help you manage custom infrastructure is incredibly expensive and much less flexible. That's why spending a hypothetical $5000/month on a cloud hosted solution that could, in theory, be custom-built on a $50/month server with enough time investment can still be a great deal. Engineers are expensive and time is limited.
> But if you're running an actual business, even a $10,000/month AWS bill is cheaper than hiring another skilled developer to help manage your dedicated servers.
Uhhh, excuse me but how much are you paying this DevOps guy? This seems like a very American perspective, even valley area. In Europe, hiring a guy would be cheaper.
> Uhhh, excuse me but how much are you paying this DevOps guy? This seems like a very American perspective, even valley area. In Europe, hiring a guy would be cheaper.
There's a whole band of people who have the technical chops to self-host, or host little instances for their family/friends/association/hiking club. This small margin where you're ok to spend a little extra because you want to make it proper, but you can't justify paying so much and spend time doing hard maintenance. A small VPS, with a shared Nextcloud or a small website, is all that's needed in many cases.