My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have an openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it’s not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

  • LiveLM
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    1 day ago

    For me, self-hosting is about staying in control over your software and data, so I think hosting in a VPS still fits the bill, even if it isn’t the way most people go about it

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      Aren’t you partially not in control? If that hardware gets nuked some how then you’re compromised

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        Sure, but with proper backups, you can be up and running somewhere else quickly, minutes even if you script it.

        I mostly use it to get around CGNAT, but it totally makes sense for something that needs to be externally available anyway, like a Minecraft server.

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        True, but you’d still have a lot more control over your stuff than say, some Microsoft or Google product