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> having to maintain the hardware can get expensive in terms of your time

Except that I got a refurb that turned out to have a flaky mobo, the hardware has been less of a headache. VPSs get weirdness around I/O performance, network performance. VPS hosts get DDoS'd for reasons unrelated to anything you're doing, like when the Ethereum fork happened, people DDoS'd a lot of Ethereum nodes (for voting "wrong") on Frantech, and sharing a pipe with other tenants meant that was a problem. For example, FSE had split app server and DB server early on (the isolation was worth it almost immediately) but the DoS targeting Frantech meant that people were registering VMs just to DoS from the inter-VPS network and FSE couldn't get to its own DB server. All those headaches go away if you just have a computer and you run your software on a computer.

> maybe the VPS game gets untenable past a certain point

Yeah. At this point, system requirements exceed what I can throw at a VPS. It's hard to come by a dedi with enough RAM. Anyway, gradually acquiring replacement hardware, but with requirements designed around different software. :ocelot:

Plus a much nicer BMC (Linux-based, stable), better load-balancing setup, nodes instead of VMs, etc. It'll be a few weeks before I've got all the necessary gear together but I intend by then to have an alpha-quality build ready to run on it. If I'm lucky, I'll also have a couple of the nodes running Plan 9, which should eliminate a few headaches.