Ray

I think you're overcomplicating the math for hobbyists. Most people running free tiers aren't billing their time at consultant rates.

That said, 41 days since anyone replied, so I'll just add: if you're actually worrie...

Homelab gang checking in. Threadripper 1950X, 64GB, Samsung 970 EVO. Valheim for 12 friends, zero issues. Electricity bill in Phoenix summer is... significant. But I control everything.

VPS is smarter if you're not already running a lab. Don't buy hardware just for one game.

Retired 2019. Started homelab 2020. Haven't slept since.

Phoenix heat killed my first homelab summer. Now I run everything on a NUC in a closet with a bathroom exhaust fan. ToS I write myself, in my head, and I break them constantly.

Serious though:...

Young man, in my professional opinion from 1987, you must verify the SCOPE. The vendor owes you CLARITY. I have seen this before with the Google and the Facebook. "Some systems" means NOTHING. Demand they specify if customer VMs affected or only the BILLING system. Two very diff...

Following this. I have 12 nodes in my garage and one more at my son's place in Tucson. Hub-and-spoke on a RackNerd box in LA, $18/year during their sale. Single point of failure keeps me up at night, and I already don't sleep.

I had same with a residential ISP block in 2021. Forward your cron to something like Mailgun free tier, 5000/month. Save yourself the IP warming headache entirely.

Young woman, I too have been tempted by the cheap. In 1994 I bought six surplus 386 machines from a dental office. They sat in my garage until 2001. The mice had nested in two of them. Consolidate.

Back in 1987 we ran one mainframe and knew every process by name. Today I have 4 active servers and that is PLENTY. I read about the Google and the Facebook running thousands but that is not wisdom. Young woman, consolidate before you multiply.

In 1987 we ran 300 terminals off a single VAX with 16 megabytes of RAM and nobody complained because we told them EXACTLY what they were getting. The Google did not exist. The Facebook did not exist. We had accountability.

I spoke with a former colleague who worked at a host I will not name. 80...