Get started with a Linux server and then I'd go with something like Nextcloud in a Docker container. Then do reverse proxy, nginx on the host is very easy. You can get and update SSL certs with certbot (Let's Encrypt).

I don't even know why everyone keeps getting these no-name bullshit tlds. .com is $12/yr, it basically never changes...

A lot of the big ones like to jack the prices up every year. Just dropped Namecheap because my domain tripled in price over 3 years

thanks, that's what i need to know

Heh. I own https://9007199254740991.com/

It’s the max safe integer in double precision floating point format.

So... you reinvented ip addresses.

Those are class 1.111B domains. I actually buy them a little cheaper, but have to do it one year at a time. It's only 6-9 digits though, not any string of digits

my domains were also dirty cheap. they jacked up the prices afterwards because they can

one was .eu, another .uk

don't remember the rest

My .xyz domain is $13 on renewal, where should I move to attain lower prices?

I've heard that Let's Encrypt recently started issuing certificates for IP addresses. I'm unable to find the article at the moment though.

Well the domain helps with that for sure, especially for things like let’s encrypt. But my other stuff is running through Tailscale/headscale so https isn’t really necessary.

Yes I am aware that I am paying to use someone else's hardware. I already self-hosted lots of stuff on my own hardware, renting a server has other benefits that my own hardware doesn't, mainly guaranteed uptime.

In a lot of cases it's cheap and fun, but it can also be time consuming and easy to mess up. Hosting your own mail server for example is probably not worth it for most people.

Thanks for the guide. S3 buckets are the way to go and I already have a few Linode/Akami servers I keep for playing around with. I'm just a little worried about Navidrome hammering the server because I messed something up then getting a $1000 bandwidth charge.

Yeah this is why I don’t get the selfhosting communities dislike of cloudflare.

There’s the chance they turn on us in the future, but for now they seem pretty reliable. Now if it’s a dislike of centralization to a single company? I can understand that.

I think that's exactly what people are concerned about. Any company that turns into a monopoly should be looked at with suspicion.

Well, I don't use most of their stuff because I mostly run self hosted stuff that either don't need their proxy stuff or violate their content policies (you can't serve movies/video over their proxy, which is reasonable). But if I wanted to I already have all of that at my disposal, without any extra money.

The problem with cloudflare is when everyone relies on them, then if something happens to them, they take the whole internet offline... its much like when aws has issues, half the internet just stops working. It undermines the concept that the internet is a federation.

We dislike it because nobody needs it. Nobody here is getting DDoS'd to any extend that needs external protection.

I'm talking anecdotally but it seems to me that all the people who ride-or-die Cloudflare are also self-hosters who aren't very knowledgeable about self-hosting concepts and just heard that cloudflare protects against all these imaginary problems because they sure do sound scary!