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Thanks. It’s still much more work than I’d ~~like~~ can afford to have at the moment, so I’d stay with what I have for a while. But I have an obsolete Intel Atom machine as a server at work. It’s my personal web and file server, plus Syncthing node. The sysadmin thinks that’s for our website to work. (It’s not used for that at the moment.) I can emulate some for-work things if/when needed, but at this point nobody cares.
Nobody else, including the boss is aware. But I don’t do anything sketchy there. Just a separate offsite node, plus they have some decent power backup system. We did have massive blackouts in winter (I live in Ukraine), and not a single time the server went offline! Bonus thing, they have a static IP.
I’m hesitant to move to something bigger there though, as the future of me with the company is not very clear. I can get a higher position at some point and also replace the sysadmin (he plans to retire at some point). If so, I may move the entire company to completely self-hosted everything. And add a couple of servers to myself. But if not, I don’t know. Perhaps I could use that server till it would die its natural death, even if I’d part with the company. I’d still visit them sometimes.
I wonder whether that’s much better than a cheap VPS. Power wise, I guess it’s the same, it’s really underpowered, two cores, a gigabyte or two of ram, nothing fancy at all.