I've spun up a new VM to host the osric.uk stuff (so pulling it off wepiu in the cloud). I still haven't brought myself to renting a Hezner machine - they offer a really good deal for what you get, but it's still £30/month.

(I guess I haven't got used to £30/month being affordable. Hubbies new pc was about 2.5k£, or just under 7 years hosting at that price).

If i got a new machine (and it is a machine, not a VM), I'd probably set up Wireguard so it's connected to wepiu (and the house machines, just to make life easier) and keep DNS pointing at wepiu (Mythic have a much better rep than Hetzner).

So this month, I'm going to move the osric.uk stuff to a VM on one of the home machines to prove the theory, and if it works I'll buy the Hetzner machine at the start of February and copy stuff over.

(I'll probably leave the home VM setup as a staging/test server, I've got a spare domain i can use for it, and it might be fun to set up automated ui tests).

It's a shame I can't take advantage of Hetzner's unlimited bandwidth, but too many services are still ipv4 only, and I don't think I'm anywhere close to the limit at mythic.