Preferred Cloud Providers? \ stacker news ~builders

2157 sats \ 9 comments \ @03ca60b62a 4 Mar builders freebie

I'm looking into hosting personal services (e.g BTC node, LN Node, mempool, Nostr Relay, Gitea, PhotoPrism, etc) in a cloud environment, but having some trouble choosing a cloud provider. My goal is to start with a single node running multiple docker containers, then adding kubernetes as I expand out.

I'm wondering if people have any cloud recommendations. Bonus points for providers who accept Bitcoin/Lightning and/or are privacy-focused.

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410 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 4 Mar

Like @doofus, I'm using Digital Ocean for something small now, and it's really really slick. However, it's relatively expensive; it would be prohibitive for your use case, unless you're loaded, but even then they don't take btc.

I've been quite intrigued w/ Hostinger, which is astoundingly cheaper, and they also take bitcoin. There's a lot of bullshit scam VPS companies, but Hostinger seems to have real (non sock-puppet) endorsements. Planning to try them out when my two month freebie from DO expires.

Would also be interested in other perspectives.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @OriginalSize 4 Mar

If you're going to do all that I'd recommend a cheap dedicated server. The one-off market is not one I trust enough to recommend anyone but just make sure you are ready for the box to fail, with backups and practice recovering, and you'll be ok. Last I checked you could get a machine with a couple tb of storage for $50 a month.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 4 Mar

linode is really good and it's just $5/month for a simple machine.

26 sats \ 0 replies \ @pepe78 4 Mar

Hetzner is good but no btc payments

26 sats \ 1 reply \ @doofus 4 Mar

Digital Ocean has some of the easiest setup workflows

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @03ca60b62a OP 4 Mar

I've heard good things but they rejected my debit card which was quite a turn-off

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Asara 7 Mar

Honestly all of the tools you mention have a personal feel to them and might be better suited to be run from home.

Get a NUC or some other small form factor PC, throw k3s on it, and go from there.

Other than the occasional downtime depending on your home network, is there any other reason you would want to host it in the cloud?

I have been running all the tools you've mentioned (minus a nostr relay, which should be coming soon) out of my apartment and have been happy with it.

For your lightning node just run it behind tor and connect to it via Zeus remotely. Or set up wireguard. Everything else you might want publicly accessible just put a reverse proxy in front of and NAT to the proxy. Use dynamic DNS and never worry about IPs.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @felipe 6 Mar

For small and personal stuff I like running things locally at my own metal when I can.

For my day job, we use Amazon stuff but I don't like it and don't recommend it to anyone.

For my own small projects that need to reach out of my room, I use Digital Ocean. I've been using it since 2012 and I really like the simplicity and ease of use even though they keep adding junk to it to attract unhappy AWS users.

If you want to give it a try, here's my referral code (we both win a few credits): https://m.do.co/c/49f58e8c83ae

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @moonwatcherdot 4 Mar outlawed

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