Did you move self-hosted services to a cheap VPS?

I started with a mini-PC at home for Plex, Immich, and a few small containers, but I got tired of power outages and port-forwarding. Then I tried a low-cost VPS and, surprisingly, the migration wasn't painful: quick provisioning, clean KVM, and containers start faster than on my old box. What tripped me up at first was choosing between standard SSD and NVMe, plus the location question. SSD felt fine for media and a reverse proxy, but for small databases and frequent image pulls, NVMe smooths out the rough edges. Location mattered for latency to friends in DE/NL, so it helped that I can move to another datacenter at the same price.

I used a small plan from mvps.net and liked that it was delivered in a few minutes with automated backups included; I kept a simple setup: Traefik + Cloudflare for DNS, no CDN, with scheduled updates at night.