home server alternatives

[Stephen Warren]

The Fort Collins Creator Hub used Bluehost for Wordpress (rather than a 
virtual server with root access) hosting and I found their prices 
unreasonable. I don't know about their VPS pricing.

I've run my public-facing mail/web services on Linode.com (now Akamai) 
for about 20 years and it's been great overall. You get a full VM, and 
can even run your own paravirt kernel if you want, including non-Linux 
OS. My setup proxies (NATs) a few ports over OpenVPN to my internal 
(located-at-home) servers too.

I'm sure there are many other VM providers worth looking at.

On 4/14/26 20:51, Steve Wolf wrote:
> Assume I'm not going to have any access to the internet hardware, which 
> is why I need some other location to host whatever I migrate my 
> server to.  I'm starting to investigate a virtual private server (VPS) 
> at https://www.bluehost.com/ <https://www.bluehost.com/> for example.
> 
> Regards,
> Steve
> 
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 9:36 PM Daniel Vinci <me at danielvinci.com 
> <mailto:me at danielvinci.com>> wrote:
> 
>     __
>     I thought you meant as a Matrix homeserver, and I got excited. Anyway.
> 
>     I'm behind two CGNAT connections. I have a cheapo cloud VPS that has
>     the sole purpose of running FreeBSD and pf rdr'ing most ports to an
>     internal server connected over WireGuard. Make sure said VPS is
>     close to you topographically or things will get slow because TCP
>     congestion algorithms don't really know how to handle a hop having a
>     stupid high RTR. Yes, I have tried all the tunables and algorithms.
>     rdr doesn't do NAT or anything, so you need some funky configuration