Submitted 2 months ago by claim_arguably@lemdro.id to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I’m wondering if university email allow you to get free server that you could try self hosting on it on any service
Check your university’s policies. Unless you can justify it as related to your education, you probably won’t be allowed to do it if they notice it.
In the old days, university IT put essentially no access controls on their networks, so students’ dorm computers were completely exposed to the internet. Any service you started was immediately, globally accessible. Some big sites, including slashdot and facebook, got their start in some kid’s dorm room. I feel like access controls really got going in the early 00’s - first for residential, then for broader campus.
Check with your IT people - they may have policy or conditions under which they will expose ports on your personal computer to the internet. Otherwise, your best bet is probably free-tier AWS or Oracle.
Not free, but there are some ‘KVM VPS’ providers out there that will rent you a small, internet exposed computer pretty cheap. They can be a good platform for experimenting with self-hosting services, without exposing your personal equipment or home network. eg: 1CPU/1GB RAM/24GB SSD $12/year my.racknerd.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=903
In the old days, university IT put essentially no access controls on their networks, so students’ dorm computers were completely exposed to the internet
Dorm ethernet works this way for me right now. It’s how I host some stuff.
You can get some free credit for a few services with a university email. See education.github.com/pack
Cloud options:
Self-Host locally options:
Honestly you can probably find a N100 or N150 miniPC online for cheap, like $200 USD or less. Install Proxmox(or just install Ubuntu or whatever), install Docker+DockHand, and then install Tailscale and from your laptop/computer with Tailscale on it. You’ll be able to remotely access it, spin up whatever servers you want, and I doubt your campus IT will even see anything due to the tailnet mesh.
If you’re not living on campus, then even better, just self host your own stuff.
my uni did offer student access to aws and azure, however these were limited such as only having like 100 bucks in credit, youd usually only also get this if you were enrolled into the respective units such as a cloud computing class
it isn’t ideal but cloudflared is an option if you can’t directly expose ports
WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You could get a free server from Oracle (OCI),/even without a Uni email.
claim_arguably@lemdro.id 2 months ago
If so, why nobody talks about? Could I setup rss server there?
slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because it’s run by One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It’s a bit of a bitch, and they can kill it at the drop of a hat.
WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because Oracle has the tendency to delete VMs without prior notice.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
On their ARM server you get something like 8 cores and 24GB of RAM. Honestly, that’ll run a hell of a lot more than an RSS server.
I have one that’s running three different minecraft servers simultaneously.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 months ago
On a more serious note.
As you aren’t paying for the compute your stuff will be turned off when a paying customer wants capacity.
All the cloud vendors do this Azure calls it Spot pricing