[queenkjuul]

I use a free-tier Oracle Cloud VPS as a wireguard relay for all my public services. Yes, Oracle sucks donkey balls to deal with, but it's pretty set and forget, and they give you essentially unlimited bandwidth (like 50TB/mo each way or something I've never been able to get remotely close to)

[petesergeant]

That makes a lot of sense, but I guess if I'm already doing that, why would I not just pay the extra $5 a month for a VPS too? I'm sure there are reasons (you need a more powerful server, interesting hardware, interlink to home automation, whatever).

[queenkjuul]

Well my 64TB Plex instance doesn't really fit on a $5 VPS lol

Since i have to have the home server for that, it's trivial to use it to host everything else too.

[haiku2077]

As the other commenter mentioned the big reason is media storage. It can work particularly well now that you can run container images directly on a consumer NAS to serve your media.

Another reason is locality - all of my media still works at home when my ISP is down, to the point I sometimes don't notice the outages.