In keeping with my cloud-withdrawal paradigm, I’m actually moving away from the VPS space again, and back to a Mac Mini—a dedicated Mac Mini with all my data on it, that runs Linux. The power here doesn’t cut out a lot, but the Mini is configured to restart on power restoration, and I feel that the downtime is insufficient a reason by itself. Having said this, I do agree that isolation makes a lot of sense, and that you do need to be very careful when configuring servers. In particular, a VPS can run mail servers, and mail servers host email, so by running a VPS you’re hosting your email in a potentially trust-free zone (just like absolutely any free email provider at all, of course). IWFM to host at home, but YMMV. I have an ISP that assigns me a static IP, that also helps a lot, and I know my way around the registrar system and Internet infrastructure generally, but I totally get the convenience of having someone else run your VM for you.
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