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What I Self Host

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116 points FredrikMeyer | 3 comments | 20 Oct 25 16:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.784s | source
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doublerabbit ◴[20 Oct 25 17:23 UTC] No.45646543[source]▶
Just wait until folk hear about colocation.

Been colocating for 10 years now, the best of both worlds.

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1. pfych ◴[20 Oct 25 21:33 UTC] No.45649660[source]▶
I'd love to colocate some hardware but all the options near me (Sydney, Australia) are insanely expensive for no reason, how do you go about finding affordable rackspace?
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2. doublerabbit ◴[21 Oct 25 01:11 UTC] No.45651393[source]▶
Ship it to the next best DC in a foreign country. Iceland, Sweden, Austria all have great DCs and connectivity and are the best prices outside of my city. Your latency will suffer but for personal, semi-professional you end up with a fun hobby.

Buy something second hand off eBay and have it shipped directly to the DC. Most are kitted with a KVM, so you can then configure all the settings when racked. When it's time to retire they are normally happy to do so for a small fee.

Same with spare hardware, send a couple of spare drives. Make friends with the DCops team and they'll be happy to swap parts.

WebHostingTalk is another good resource for research and colo offers/self hosting [0]

One day I hope for my own /29 but with IPv4 exhaustion don't count on it. A /27 when used sensibly works well.

[0] https://www.webhostingtalk.com/

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3. account42 ◴[21 Oct 25 12:19 UTC] No.45654905[source]▶
I don't think your options are going to have great latency to Australia - unless gp is mostly hosting things for other (worldwide) users they should keep the servers closer than that for the best experience.