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What can I use my basic VPS for? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just started renting a basic VPS through Racknerd with the intent to use it as a reverse proxy to point friends to my game server instances running at home without exposing my public IP. I could not figure out how to get it to work so I gave up after days of trying and am now using playit.gg. I prepaid for a year of the VPS. What cool project should I try on it now?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that introduce any latency? I think the VPS is in CA and I'm in PNW, so somewhat close. I did have pi-hole running locally until just recently. I've switched to Adguard Home instead. I have primary DNS on the pi and secondary on my unRAID server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It might. But anecdotally, I have three instances of Adguard Home that my router uses, one local and two VPS. The fastest is on a VPS, ~7ms average processing time. My local instance is in the teens, probably because I'm abusing that poor machine hosting too much. But a VPS based DNS server is a viable option in my personal experience.