Self-Hosting VPS
VPS guides for n8n, Coolify, Nextcloud, Home Assistant, Supabase, PocketBase, VPN services, and other self-hosted applications.
Self-hosting can reduce subscription costs and increase control, but it also moves upgrades, backups, security, monitoring, and recovery onto the server owner.
These guides cover practical sizing and architecture for popular self-hosted applications and lightweight VPN infrastructure.
Self-hosting guides
A workload-based guide to choosing a VPS for Coolify, Docker deployments, databases, preview environments, and self-hosted application platforms.
How to choose a VPS for Home Assistant when using remote integrations, MQTT, dashboards, automation, VPN access, and cloud-hosted services.
A practical VPS sizing guide for self-hosting n8n, from small personal automations to larger Docker deployments with PostgreSQL, workers, and backups.
How to size a VPS for Nextcloud based on users, storage, database needs, file previews, backups, and whether data should live on local disk or attached storage.
How to choose a VPS for PocketBase based on RAM, SQLite storage, backups, reverse proxy, traffic, Docker, and deployment simplicity.
How to size a VPS for self-hosted Supabase based on PostgreSQL, Docker services, authentication, storage, realtime, backups, and traffic.
A commercial guide to running n8n on a VPS under $10, including RAM, Docker, PostgreSQL, executions, backups, and growth limits.
VPN guides
How to choose a VPS for WireGuard or OpenVPN based on latency, transfer limits, public IPs, privacy expectations, and the number of devices you plan to connect.
How to choose an OpenVPN VPS based on CPU, encryption, bandwidth, latency, public IP, client compatibility, and security.
A commercial WireGuard VPS guide covering RAM, server location, transfer, IPv4, CPU, privacy, and secure configuration.
A commercial guide to running WireGuard or OpenVPN on a VPS under $5, including bandwidth, public IPv4, location, CPU, and privacy trade-offs.