<div dir="ltr">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.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 9:50 AM Stephen Warren via NCLUG <<a href="mailto:nclug@nclug.org">nclug@nclug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The Fort Collins Creator Hub used Bluehost for Wordpress (rather than a <br>
virtual server with root access) hosting and I found their prices <br>
unreasonable. I don't know about their VPS pricing.<br>
<br>
I've run my public-facing mail/web services on Linode.com (now Akamai) <br>
for about 20 years and it's been great overall. You get a full VM, and <br>
can even run your own paravirt kernel if you want, including non-Linux <br>
OS. My setup proxies (NATs) a few ports over OpenVPN to my internal <br>
(located-at-home) servers too.<br>
<br>
I'm sure there are many other VM providers worth looking at.<br>
<br>
On 4/14/26 20:51, Steve Wolf wrote:<br>
> Assume I'm not going to have any access to the internet hardware, which <br>
> is why I need some other location to host whatever I migrate my <br>
> server to. I'm starting to investigate a virtual private server (VPS) <br>
> at <a href="https://www.bluehost.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bluehost.com/</a> <<a href="https://www.bluehost.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bluehost.com/</a>> for example.<br>
> <br>
> Regards,<br>
> Steve<br>
> <br>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 9:36 PM Daniel Vinci <<a href="mailto:me@danielvinci.com" target="_blank">me@danielvinci.com</a> <br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:me@danielvinci.com" target="_blank">me@danielvinci.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> __<br>
> I thought you meant as a Matrix homeserver, and I got excited. Anyway.<br>
> <br>
> I'm behind two CGNAT connections. I have a cheapo cloud VPS that has<br>
> the sole purpose of running FreeBSD and pf rdr'ing most ports to an<br>
> internal server connected over WireGuard. Make sure said VPS is<br>
> close to you topographically or things will get slow because TCP<br>
> congestion algorithms don't really know how to handle a hop having a<br>
> stupid high RTR. Yes, I have tried all the tunables and algorithms.<br>
> rdr doesn't do NAT or anything, so you need some funky configuration<br>
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