@SirTapTap The CPU/RAM and price is not really the driver for me when it comes to “hosting” something. How well can you keep it up and running? Eg battery backups. If you put your home internet and your RPi on a modest UPS you’ll probably get minutes, even an hour of up time. But not more. Will that matter?
And if you’re on a residential IP, it changes. So you have to do a bunch of dyndns stuff somehow. Not impossible, but it’s some stuff that can go wrong or make you spend time on it.
And then there’s the fact that this wonky project thing is accepting internet connections and it lives on your home network. An internet-based adversary popping a vuln on your pi-based whatever, gets a beachhead on your home network. Is your internet router up to the task? Are you able to isolate the pi from the rest of the house or just live with this exposure?
These are the questions I worry most about. The cost of a Pi vs the cost of a VPS is kinda neither here nor there for me.
@paco Yeah, static IP is a concern. Power downtime isn't too major, esp since this would be a chat server. But a VPS would probably be easier to handle, esp since I already have a service so I'd just be spinning up another instance.
I got cloudflare for a reverse proxy, but nothing is 100% fool proof
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