Server Change (After 2 Years)

I have been using RackNerd to host this blog for 2 years. In terms of reliability, they have been literally bulletproof for me. I don’t recall any downtime caused by them. Every downtime occured to this site caused by me. I recommend them.

But with the time, collection of services I hosted grew up. I started hosting a friend’s blog on the very same server of this blog too Later, I decided to host a nextcloud instance too. While due to my container selection 1.5GB RAM wasn’t an issue, storage and 1 vCPU (Xeon E5-2680 v2) has started to become problematic.

A few months ago I was looking for another cheap VPS in Europe because my VPS from RackNerd was literally in Atlanta (somewhere in USA idk). Since I’m in Türkiye and our ISPs are stupid, I don’t have good peering with USA. That results in lots of hops and in return it’s 165ms ping at best.

While I was looking to LowEndBox, I stumbled upon a provider called “luxvps”. They’re from Germany so it has a good route to me. Best thing is, they offer 4 vCPU, 16GB RAM and 100GB SSD for 7 euro/month. While it seemed sketchy, I decided to take the risk and purchased it. Tested it with my internal services (basically goofing around) for 3 months and they seem to be fine.

Anyway with the experience I gained from my homelab (more of that coming soon!) I decided to install Proxmox VE. In fact, luxvps themselves encourages it. I’ve set up a NAT, reverse proxy (this time nginx), and 2 VMs. One for hosting websites, one for me goofing around. That way if I accidentally wipe podman volumes (happened to my buddy) critical services (which are blogs that could’ve been static) are not affected (in theory).

Of course backups are important, if luxvps suddenly lights out one day, I can move shit to another place (like buyvm) easily.

So here it is, if you want to check luxvps out here’s my affiliate link (of course you’re not obligated to do so):

https://billing.luxvps.net/aff.php?aff=184

Useful Links for Proxmox setup:

1. Proxmox Community Scripts (R.I.P. tteck)
   • https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/
2. How to set up NAT in Proxmox
   • Using Proxmox with one public IP address – Abyss Project
3. Technitum DNS Server
   • You might want this for convenience while managing VM and containers behind NAT. It’s also a DHCP server.
   • https://technitium.com/dns/
   • Tip: You can just use community scripts to create a LXC easily

So that concludes my recent server change. We will see the long term reliability. Still in the end, using a full-blown VPS for hosting a (mostly static) blog is a stupid idea. Something like Hugo + Github Pages or Cloudflare Pages is a much better and cost efficient idea but where’s the fun if you’re not setting your WordPress instance and blow it up from time to time?

EDIT 17/03/2025: It’s officially terminated, marking end of an era.