Jan "Jenkings" Škoda - blog

I have bought a DELL Wyse 5070 With Intel Celeron 4105 CPU @ 1.50GHz and 8GB of RAM for 900 CZK. It is quite good hardware, in really small case, with around 10W consumption in light load.



And why did I buy it?

I'm getting really frustrated with my current VPS provider. It's becoming increasingly expensive and doesn't even offer the basic functions I need.

For example, it is not possible to create a backup easily. The provider only offers default weekly backups, and then you have to pay 500 CZK to recover them. Each time. This is problematic if you need to experiment with something and then revert to your backup. That's 500 CZK for each try!

Prices are rising by tens of percent every year, so it's no longer worth it.

The biggest problem for me now is hosting HryProDva.cz, as they already require a lot of system resources and are running on an outdated operating system. The operating system is also based on the provider. They only provide their own operating system images for installation and do not introduce new versions of common systems very often. They also modify these media with their "patches", so when I tried to update to a more recent version, the whole OS was killed immediately during the update. I therefore needed to perform a fresh installation and set up everything again.

However, I still haven't found anything that suits my needs, so I've decided to try hosting it myself. At least for the smaller projects. I turned the Dell Wyse into a micro-server. I tunnelled it outside of my home network and will see how it works. I will move some small sites and projects there and see how it works and how reliable it is. After some measurement and research, I will decide what to do next.

As a first small proof of concept, this website is now running on that server. I will collect some metrics to see how it works.