r/SelfHosting

I’m trying to self-host OpenClaw and need a VPS that won’t be painful to use.

What is cheap VPS hosting really enough for OpenClaw starting, cause I don’t need best.

Just want fast start agent as a test.

What CPU and RAM do I need for agent who will go to the social media and collect relevant data from dashboard?

Which AI hosting provider make it easy?

If you have any good recommendations, please share.

For those who chose to 'Cloud Exit' and buy your own heavy compute rigs to save on rental costs: how are you dealing with the guilt of idle hardware? My rig sits dark 80% of the week when I'm not running batches, and knowing it's depreciating every day feels like losing money in slow motion. Has anyone found a legitimate way to offset the cost of their home lab hardware when they aren’t actively using it?

Hello!

I would like to start off the post with saying that I do have hosted local Minecraft servers for Lan-partys previously. They just simply were really simple, so I am familiar with the basics.

I want to host a public server for me and some close irl friends. I am using the latest version of spigot and currently have ViaBackwards, worldedit and simple voice chat installed.

Do I need some anticheat plugin (I do trust my friends not to cheat)? what is a good plugin for that?

I should probably set a whitelist.

I also wanted to look into optimization plugins just in case my homelab is not powerful enough, but all the results seem pretty sketchy and none of them support anything beyond 1.21.0. Is there anything good?

One more question: how do I protect certain chunks from being mined? (I wanted to create a spawn house [I have never done that before])

Thanks :3

I recently built HugMyPDF and wanted to share some implementation details because PDF handling in browsers turned out to be more interesting than I expected.

Most free tools run fully client-side:

• pdf-lib handles merge/split/rotate/protect/watermark
• PDF.js handles rendering + text extraction
• Files processed as ArrayBuffers inside Web Workers
• No fetch() calls during processing
• Downloads generated using Blob URLs

A few things I learned:

• Moving PDF work into Web Workers massively improved UI responsiveness
• Avoiding string conversion reduced memory spikes on larger files
• Mobile Chrome has weird Blob preview limitations for generated PDFs
• OCR on multi-page scans became much harder than expected

For Pro features I used:

• FastAPI (Python 3.12)
• LibreOffice headless conversions
• Tesseract OCR
• GPT-4 for AI summarize/chat

Infra is surprisingly small:

• Cloudflare Pages
• $6 DigitalOcean VPS
• Cloudflare Workers for Stripe webhooks
• Resend for emails

Biggest pain point so far:
LibreOffice conversion consistency across complex layouts.

Curious how others here handle:

• large-file processing in-browser
• OCR pipelines
• async job queues for conversions

I want to start my own image board for me and my friends, and i was wondering where the best reddit thread to do that is at. It would definitely help if involving a raspberry pi since i have a bunch of raspberry pi 5's

Hey all, if I plan to self host using jellyfin or something else using my raspberry pi, how can I quickly get tons of movies and tv shows loaded into my server? Appreciate any help.