Behold my frugal self-hosted stack! A Fujitsu Futro S920 (right) acts as an ADS-B station and serves TERMINAL-1090 (https://codeberg.org/dmpop/terminal-1090). A Fujitsu Esprimo Q556/2 (left) runs self-hosted applications:
- buen8.tavuk.xyz (microblog)
- readeck.tavuk.xyz (Readeck Read-It-Later application)
All the hardware, with RAM and storage upgrades, cost me no more than ~€200 (maybe even less -- I'm too lazy to do the math).
Both machines are hooked up to a 5G router on the 3 network. The speed varies wildly, and the connection itself can be unreliable. But the low price is the overriding factor here. It costs ~€15/month, which is probably the cheapest plan on the market.
Next major project: Move my entire digiKam photo library to the Fujitsu Esprimo Q556/2 and serve it using digiKampanion (https://dmpop.codeberg.page/digikampanion/).