Wow lots of people who can’t handle hosting. Ignore the nay sayers. Run your VPS just you know keep it up to date, back it up and use a long stable release.

It seems like the same crowd that can’t figure out email also can’t figure out running a server in general on the internet. Go figure.

So go find one and keep riding it until you hit the accident payday?

This is exactly what I came here to find. Thank you for posting it. If I can be so bold selfhosters should really be leaning this way searxng is great but it still uses big tech.

The other thing we need is a way to identify good crawling agents or *smol agents over corporate bots that just steal content.

If selfhosters can unite and build a good index perhaps searching can go back to the way it was vs a vector to sell you more and collect your data.

Borg resumes where failed backups left off so if you keep running it until it completes it’ll dedupe what is already there and eventually finish leaving you with just incremental backups.

What servers or smaller form factors are going for a good price?

Check out caddy. Very straight forward syntax for a reverse proxy.

What advantages do you think the paid cert has over letsencrypt?

Ampache FTW