100 days of netcup: what nobody tells you beforehand
One netcup VPS, 100 days of self-hosting tests: 73 GB of disk used with a single container running – 91 % of it leftover Docker images. Plus the quirks that each cost an evening: blocked SMTP, a UDP-stateless firewall and a 14½-minute host reboot.
https://serverkueche.de/en/tutorials/100-days-netcup/
#SelfHosting #Netcup #VPS
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