I just started renting a basic VPS through Racknerd with the intent to use it as a reverse proxy to point friends to my game server instances running at home without exposing my public IP. I could not figure out how to get it to work so I gave up after days of trying and am now using playit.gg. I prepaid for a year of the VPS. What cool project should I try on it now?
As a beginner you could try it with https://yunohost.org
This is exactly what I’m using to host my Mastodon and Lemmy instance. Very, very user-friendly!
The downside is the Lemmy version they support on Yunohost is very old… 16.7. First Yunohost will have to support Debian 12 and then a more recent Lemmy version could be supported. I wish they just used Docker containers for apps instead of having everything in the base system, even though it’d take more RAM.