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linux/self host newbies, now is a good time to get you a cheap server (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by hydra@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Lot of sales for 4th of july (and ongoing ones) where you can pay $10-$14 for a YEAR of a small cheap VPS. Usually only has 1GB of memory, but that's plenty to play around with and learn. If nothing else, a good cheap ipv4 you can use for some port forwarding. There are lots of options, but I've used racknerd and ethernetservers which have been fine.

I have my own server at home, but I bought two small ones to start learning Ansible with in a risk free way. Eventually plan to redo my main server with a complete Ansible setup, really want to hop on that "infrastructure as code" train.

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[+] balance_sheet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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[–] Amcro@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it depends on the ISP. In my country (Croatia) most of the ISPs, if not all, change your IP address every 24h no matter what. You can force the IP change when you restart the router so if I restart mine at 2am it will change my IP every day at 2am.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What OS? I run a Linux router that when the IP changes it just updates the DNS record. Worst case I'm down for 5 minutes. But have never noticed anything.

[–] Amcro@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Oh my server is running through cloudflare tunnel so im not affected by ip change at all. Im actually running default ISPs router it’s actually pretty nice and does the job for me.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I had the same IP address for almost four years through Spectrum in Upstate NY, on a residential plan. It changed once. I ended up moving anyway though, so I didn't get to see how long that one stuck around.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Depends on Canada my cable did not but my fiber bother the ipv4 and 6 change enough that I wrote scripts to update the DNS records.

[–] rarkgrames@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’m with BT in the UK and whilst this is somewhat true (as in if we lose power my ip normally changes) my ip does change from time to time for no apparent reason.

I have dynamic DNS set up for my services so it’s not a major pain but I do wish I had a true static IP.