Not sure if cloud hosted VMs count as selfhosted for the purposes of this community, but I run a lot of services at the house and want to have a few services that require high availability run in a cloud external to my home. Specifically, I want to run Vaultwarden, an email server and a VPN. My question is one of recommendations. Which cloud service provides the best uptime/stability and is ethical enough for consideration?

The ethics of some of these larger companies are no small part of the reason I chose to self host the majority(hopefully all soon) of the services that I use. So for instance Amazon and Microsoft are out. I currently use DigitalOcean for Vaultwarden, Zoho for domain email, and Nord for my VPN.

Edit: Thank you to everyone who provided recommendations and information. I have chosen to stick with DigitalOcean for VM hosting for the time being. General consensus seems to be positive.

I am working on self-hosting email much to the chagrin of some of the posters here with experience. I want to see how it works for me and am willing to deal with some headaches along the way. Time will tell whether I move that direction for my actual email or give up and use a ready made solution like proton. Time will also tell how much hair I have left when all is said and done after pulling it all out, lol.

Again, thank you to everyone who shared their knowledge and experience.

  • ɐɥO
    link
    fedilink
    English
    99 months ago

    Hetzner is pretty decent. Somewhat cheap and never had a single problem with it

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      29 months ago

      I second that. Their cloud servers/VMs are pretty fast (the hosts don’t seem overprovisioned) and even their dedicated servers are cheap for what you get. I can also recommend their server auction page.

    • jelloeater - Ops Mgr
      link
      fedilink
      English
      19 months ago

      They are okay, provision really fast, decent Terraform provider and are very cheap. They are fairly reliable, but I’ve always been a bigger fan of DO and Vultr. You get what you pay for in the long run.