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Buy or Rent? RaspberryPi vs. VPS

by andreagrandi on 7/20/24, 6:23 AM with 1 comments

• by cloudsec9 on 7/25/24, 9:53 PM

  For a service that needs to be available to the outside world, I'd say a VPS is often the better practical solution.

  Many home ISPs don't allow hosting of E-mail (SMTP) or traffic through to 80/443 (HTTP/S), so you have to have something which does this. "Self-hosters" often explain their setups with a reverse proxy which ends up on a home server.

  I say this as a big supporter of RaspPi and home devices in general; unless it's for something like Home Automation, it's easier and more reliable to just run it remotely.