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moving from cloud to my own network (feddit.nl)

submitted 2 years ago by RagingToad@feddit.nl to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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Hello,

I am hosting a shared Minecraft server (10-15 users usually) on dedicated hardware somewhere at OVH. I am considering moving this server to my home. I would save 25$ per month doing this, which would be my main motivation.

I am aware of other considerations (I'll mention them later) but maybe I am missing something? Is there anyone who did the reverse (hosting a service with multiple users, moving them from your home to a hosting company) and what was your reason

Things I already considered:

when my electricity/connection goes down the server goes down (that's ok it's just a game and my connection has always been very very stable)
hosting at home eats bandwidth (I have 50mbit which is way more than I use, I don't stream or download much)
electricity costs money too
when the server is compromised my home network is compromised (handling servers and networks is my hobby and my job, I think I can make it safe)

Thank you for your thoughts!

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[–] Lucky@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What is your upload speed? Many ISPs give you 50 download but <5 upload, that would be a huge bottleneck

The biggest issue is security though. Unless you're setting up a VPN that only works when you set up a secured client on each device, I wouldn't trust that server to have access anywhere on the network. I would strongly recommend against opening any ports on your firewall as well. Tailscale and Cloudflare Tunnels are popular for homelabs that might be useful here and free for your use case