Free hosting options for Pangolin in the EU?
from alto@lemmy.ml to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 13:13
https://lemmy.ml/post/33512120

Are there any folks here who have set up hosting for Pangolin in the EU and if so; what hosting options have you chosen? Are there any good free tier options?

I’m also keen on finding a platform which supports terraforming the setup for the VPS, firewall etc.

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mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud on 22 Jul 13:28 next collapse

OVH is not free, but very cheap

doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de on 22 Jul 13:49 next collapse

I’m not using Pangolin, but a 1€/month VPS from IONOS serves as my nebula lighthouse.

exu@feditown.com on 22 Jul 14:06 next collapse

How do you handle certificate renewals?

doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de on 22 Jul 16:39 collapse

Ha, that’s a good question: I don’t. I chose a rather long time for the certs validity and then promised to myself that I will extend my ansible playbook when I need to.

alto@lemmy.ml on 23 Jul 08:21 collapse

Is the 1€/month price permanent or a limited time deal where it will go up later? Because I didn’t see that kind of pricing on their site which wouldn’t go up to 12€/month after a year.

doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de on 23 Jul 10:06 collapse

No, it’s permanent. They call it “VPS XS”, here (in german). Sadly a initial one-time payment of 10€ required, I forgot about that.

On ionos.com the same VPS costs $2/month. No one-time payment though.

The unique selling point of this VPS for me was the low price combined with unlimited traffic. Sometimes my nebula lighthouse needs to proxy traffic for peers that can’t talk to each other directly. It’s nice not to worry about traffic then.

alto@lemmy.ml on 23 Jul 10:23 collapse

That’s interesting, I’ll have to look into that again, they seem to have a server location option that is EU which looks nice, I’ll just need to find out which countries that actually refers to.

kokomo@lemmy.kokomo.cloud on 22 Jul 13:54 next collapse

Not free, but if you can find them, www.scaleway.com/en/stardust-instances/ are pretty cost effective.

alto@lemmy.ml on 23 Jul 08:57 collapse

I created an account on Scaleway just to check prices, which seem to be the same as Hetzner. But looking around online I find that people are heavily in favor of Hetzner over Scaleway due to reliability and service, so I’m leaning more toward Hetzner.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 14:47 collapse

I don’t know of any free tiers in the EU, however, very cheap options do exist. Not in the EU, but one of my VPS runs $25 USD a year. It’s a pretty capable little server, and at $25 USD, it’s about as close to free as you going to get. Take a look at https://lowendbox.com/. You might find something poking around there.