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What can I use my basic VPS for? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I just started renting a basic VPS through Racknerd with the intent to use it as a reverse proxy to point friends to my game server instances running at home without exposing my public IP. I could not figure out how to get it to work so I gave up after days of trying and am now using playit.gg. I prepaid for a year of the VPS. What cool project should I try on it now?

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a beginner you could try it with https://yunohost.org

[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 1 points 1 year ago

This is exactly what I'm using to host my Mastodon and Lemmy instance. Very, very user-friendly!

The downside is the Lemmy version they support on Yunohost is very old... 16.7. First Yunohost will have to support Debian 12 and then a more recent Lemmy version could be supported. I wish they just used Docker containers for apps instead of having everything in the base system, even though it'd take more RAM.

[–] Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

This looks compelling. Thank you