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I’ve been thinking about when it actually makes sense to add a VPS to a self-hosted setup instead of keeping everything at home.

I’m not really looking for a “best provider” list or the biggest specs for the lowest monthly price. I’m more interested in the tradeoffs people actually care about once something is running outside your home network: uptime, network quality, bandwidth limits, clean IPs, backups, support, DDoS protection, location, and predictable pricing.

For those of you who use a VPS alongside your home setup, what made it worth it?

Was it mainly reliability, public IP / remote access, better uptime, cleaner networking, off-site backups, hosting something public-facing, or just not wanting everything tied to your home connection?

And what kind of VPS would you still trust for something small but important?