home server alternatives

[Tom Propst]

I use a cheap DigitalOcean instance as a WireGuard gateway and to host some
light websites. Not a very demanding workload but I've never had any
complaints. I also think they host some of the best documentation for
setting up a wide variety of services.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 9:50 AM Stephen Warren via NCLUG <nclug at nclug.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
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