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Why do you need a VPS?
rasping5978
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in General
I have been wondering what is the need for people to buy VPS, share your views here!
Some may buy for IP address, to set up VPN, or route traffic from your home lab services.
Some may get a cheap/free VPS to host small applications/websites.
Why did you choose a VPS over your dedicated hardware at home?
For me I already have my own hardware and can already be way powerful than the VPS specs. I am not sure why I need a VPS now hahaha but I am learning new stuff! It is a want for me.
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to YABS and idle.
To read Russian news.
It's a dirt cheap proxy that satisfies my sinful vice to circumvent the EU Democracy Firewall and get indoctrinated by the enemy's propaganda
Route Bending, lowest latency possible for Gaming at all times.
However, to archive this, you need a bunch of these VPS's's's's.
Waste of Money, but Latency is all what matters.
Adding one hop you get lower latency?
Not based on hops, based on better routes, I get better latency.
Lets say my ISP has a shit route, I can selectively send traffic over the VPN.
Plus, If I have alternative routes, I can avoid routes with packet loss or jittaaaar.
@Neoon
I see. I'm not latency sensitive by any means, my home connection is over an LTE modem... and I use
tincas VPN which is pretty slow but has cool futuristic features (mesh network, route discovery)I mainly use it to host Tor relays.
Access to fast internet with cheap bandwidth, powerful hardware in seconds and security because I don't have to open my network to the internet.
So I mostly use it as a jump host into my home network, specifically for services I want to be publicly accessible. Most of my services are local and done via local DNS resolution and then I have a VPN running inside of my home network. But some services I want to publicly expose and I would rather not directly expose my own IP so for that I use a VPS. I use FRP which does raw TCP forwarding so I can keep HTTPS keys on my local machine
I also usually use it for some services which I don't want to be affected by internal circumstances but currently not using either of my VPS's for that.
Running dedicated application 24x7
Also SQL Server database
for backups
I build distributed application that serves content to worldwide viewers.
If I only place dedicated servers in my two residences, viewers would encounter high latency and low speed to the servers.
I chose multiple VPSes in different regions around the world so that viewers can have better experience.
Express Edition? Otherwise you're either cheating on license or paying a fortune.
Recently my VPS has Calckey and Misskey installed. (If the name sounds unfamiliar, think of it as a relative of Mastodon or Pleroma.)
Also, in Japan, IPoE is being adopted instead of PPPoE for high-speed communication. In addition, it has become possible to use mobile lines for home use. This makes it difficult to use NAT. I'm using Tailscale for that solution, which requires a VPS to connect to.
My main purpose is to serve as a proxy for accessing blocked websites, which is crucial for completing my development work. Additionally, I can also set up my personal blog.
Uptime using VPS generally better than hosting at my home, although I have moved a majority of selfhosted things at home. I only host websites outside now.
Order, idle, and forget
Express edition is more than enough for my projects.
I use a VPS to host a personal web, email, and Mastodon server. For many years this was mostly Vultr (and a bit of BuyVM/NexusBytes) before I went into the VPS business myself
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One advantage of having CenturyLink as your home ISP (that is, if you have fiber) is great peering. You have god-tier AS3356 (Level 3) peering which connects to almost everything.
I use VPS to host my personal blogs, adguardhome instance, and private VPN.
I doubt that.
for some websites
My primary purpose is to host WordPress blogs.
For running services instead of running them at home. A static IP usually costs $10 per month extra in my country so it's a no-brainer for me.
discord bots, my api, random scripts to update random stuff, private github repo
i wonder why.
order > benchmark > idle
First reason that my PC is not a 24 hours machine, while VPS intended to be used 24 hours non stop, second reason, the internet connection.
If you have a website or similar to it, then you will know, why you need a VPS or dedicated server.
Ofcourse you could host your website from your home, using your ISP, dedicated public IP, but that's need a lot of knowledge and maintenance.