Hello.
I’ve been trying to get familiar with self hosting. The only roadblock I have is I’m unable to do so because I am a university student living in student accommodation where it is against WiFi policy to host anything. And currently I don’t even have my raspberry pi with me. My laptop is relatively low specced, so I can’t exactly do VMs, but I want to learn more about hosting stuff and the services I can host. I recently signed up for a free managed Nextcloud instance because I wanted to see what it’s like and whether I’d be interested in hosting my own.
I know VPS-es are an option but they can get pretty costly, especially for a student like me. Do you have any recommendations, including any cheapz reliable VPS-es for a UK student to dip his toes into self-hosting? Thank you.
P.S I know this isn’t exactly self-hosting as I’m technically reliant on third party hardware but it’s the only option in my situation.
20 year seasoned admin here; Nevermind not being worth “free”, I wouldn’t use them if they literally paid me to.
My experience as well. Walking in to a network or server consult, and finding Oracle DB, there was immediately a caveat with the customer that I would have nothing to do with that shit or they’d see my backside. Since I knew I would be dealing with it somehow anyway, there was a fuck-you factor in any time quotes I gave them.
I wouldn’t be involved in migrating it to new hardware, and if the consultants they hired to deal with it needed anything, I’d take my own sweet time to get back to them. Gawd, the Oracle consultants were the worst. But my utter hard and fast rule was that I would never, ever talk to Oracle Support.
I’m not saying I wouldn’t join the contract negotiation meeting, but the amount they’d need to fork over would be substantial.