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?
Not many. Around 100. It does cache media from other instances for a period of 7 days though. This is adjustable, but even if you cut the caching down to one or two days, it will be more than a baseline VPS can handle. At my host, they start at 40GB and by the time you get to my storage needs, a much pricier dedicated server is required. Instead, I offloaded the storage to another provider and have nginx keep a much smaller 48 hour cache of media that actually gets requested by users on the VPS itself.