I thought a VPS would replace my home server, but the real costs caught me off guard
… A few Hetzner instances cost less than what my ISP was asking for a static IP. …
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I replaced Cloudflare Tunnel with Pangolin, and finally own my whole ingress path
… My Hetzner VPS is one server hosted in Germany, whereas Cloudflare is hundreds of POPs. Though Hetzner has basic DDoS protection and WAF, it is no match to Cloudflare. …
I stopped exposing half my self-hosted services to the internet, and nothing broke
… So, I finally rented another cheap $5 VPS on Hetzner and moved Pangolin to it. …
I tried to replace every Cloudflare service in my homelab — here's what I kept and what I dropped
… I host Pangolin on Hetzner, but I'm not locked in. …
I set up a Tailscale exit node at home, and it's more useful than just exposing services
… I’ve also deployed an exit node in my family home, and even kept another on a Hetzner VPS in the past. …
I ditched cloud storage for a NAS and saved hundreds in the process
… An off-site copy can include automated, encrypted nightly syncing to cold storage such as Backblaze B2, Hetzner Storage Box, or an off-site NAS at a different location, such as a family member's house. …
I run Tailscale's magic network without handing Tailscale a single one of my devices
… See at Github Headscale wasn't the easy part It didn’t just work I already had a small VPS on Hetzner, with two shared vCPUs, 4GB of RAM, and 40GB of NVMe disk space. …
My home server is smart, my VPS is deliberately dumb, and that's the whole point
… From my own publication to free and open-source web apps, I had used various VPSs along the way — Digital Ocean, Hetzner, Linode, and Vultr. …
I replaced three Docker containers with one, and my networking stack finally stopped feeling heavy
… It wasn’t a trade-off for me because I already rent a Hetzner VPS to host a few of my own web apps, tools, and open-source projects. …
I ditched network segmentation for a flat homelab, and a tool showed me why that actually works
… Finally, my ingress is hosted on a rented VPS on Hetzner; it handles public-facing access via self-hosted Pangolin and NetBird . …