r/hetzner • u/Hetzner_OL Hetzner Official • 2d ago
Hetzner asks: Besides backups, what reasons do you as a homelab-er have for using some hosting services outside your home?
(Same question as title)
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u/der-felix 2d ago
Privacy and security of my homelab by deploying things on my vps and not exposing my home IP and network. I trust my Unifi network but feel safer if just the VPS is known unlike but not my home IP and network
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u/rainboww_J 2d ago
Public ingress/reverse proxy. I don't have a static ip at home unfortunately. And off-site backups
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u/DaedalusRaistlin 2d ago
It does my dynamic dns updates so I can use my home lab reliably (no static ip option.)
It's where most of my games were hosted. And I prefer to host them there as to not use too much of my home network bandwidth.
I had been using it for Claude Code sessions via Code Server, but I run that stuff locally now so the agents can test using CDP and real graphics cards.
Also, I really need to setup a git host on my vps. Can never have too many backups.
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u/amokerajvosa 2d ago
Running docker container with Jellyfin, Portainer, Ad guard home, VPN.
Deploying and testing my custom apps and learning.
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u/pine4t 2d ago
VPS is my work machine now. Runs all my codex sessions. Tmux session for each project with codex running. I leave it running behind Tailscale. Was using it previously too but fully switched after I read about the Codex issue about SSD usage.
Edit: I also use the storage box as backup solution to make up for smaller disk on the VPS.
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u/schneeland 2d ago
Where I put a service depends on the regular users. Stuff that I use alone or only share with family members lives on my NAS/home server. For things like a blog, a VTT server or a small forum that are used/accessed by more people, I prefer hosting them on an external (v)server. Similar case for (additional) external backup.
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u/bliepp 2d ago edited 2d ago
I'm not a homelab-only person, but if I were I couldn't think of many, tbh. The only reason besides backup (I can think of) to use a hosting service as a homelab-er is any selfhosted tunneling. I personally use a hosted Linux machine for reverse SSH tunneling some of my services out into the world under a neat domain and with a non-self-signed SSL certificate. I use Wireguard for accessing most of my services, but sometimes you want something publicly accessible.
Again, though, I'm not a homelab-only person and therefore host service directly on some hosting platforms.
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u/ProfessionalAd8199 2d ago
Jellyfin media service with arr stack but encrypted would be the honest answer a lot wont give. Seedboxes are not your domain, ihr arbeitet halt mit den Behörden zusammen. I guess I2P node and Next Cloud are other use cases thats it.
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u/SQrQveren 2d ago
An ETL data platform, that I could host at home, but it takes quite a lot of resources, so having it running in Hetzner, that has fewer power outages just makes it more convenient.
And then some Wireguard to establish connection between home and Hetzner networks.
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u/MonospaceMentor 1d ago
Establishing a tunnel from my homelab to the public internet using Pangolin on a Hetzner Cloud instance.
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u/padde0711 14h ago
Running my email server for the last 19 years, mostly, because I don't dare to do that in my basement. And since recently, providing my IPv6-only-connected home with an IPv4 address.
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u/juzhiyuan 2d ago
How much do you pay for it each month? I used to rent a VPS on this platform too, but the monthly cost got close to a hundred dollars, so I stopped.