Recommend me a VPS provider please

blicero

I'm looking to get started hosting my own stuff so I can learn to manage a server and use my own services. I'm interested in setting up my own email, my own website, cloud storage and try out stuff like Grocy.

I understand there's an implicit loss of privacy trusting my data to a 3rd party, perhaps encryption could be feasible.
I don't have the Internet connection or space to sat up my own server. Ideally the service could double as as seedbox so I can eliminate a second subscription.
It being fairly affordable would be great.

I have business model like Mullvad in mind, maybe there's a VPS equivalent?

Thanks.

de0u

blicero Doing your own spam filtering may be surprisingly difficult. If your infrastructure is one VM you would be subject to DDoS. Be careful out there!

trilogy6202

njal.la,1984.hosting and bahnhof.net are to my knowledge, among the most privacy respecting hosting providers.

I don't know if they can double as seedbox.

They are probably not among the cheapest and I think you'll have a hard time finding a provider that are both privacy respecting and very cheap.

blicero

1984 has a nice price

blicero

de0u

do you recommend any resource on this?

de0u

blicero Some threat info here: https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

I'm not saying it can't be done, or you shouldn't try! Merely trying to give you some advance notice.

intelligence

Contrary to the complaints listed in that link above, I've run my own email servers also for decades, and delivery is actually MORE RELIABLE than going through "big name email provider".

He's probably consistently making some simple configuration error or someone has broken into his servers, and its being used for mass spamming, and thus being blacklisted.

It is critically important to maintain the security of your server when doing this. Use ipsets/iptables to mass block parts of the world that you don't want connecting to you, fail2ban on ALL authenticated services, and make sure that there's no open relay!