>Rent a server on the cloud for about $10/mo if possible It can be cheaper to buy your own "mini" server (e.g. a small N100 ITX computer) to use on your home n

>Rent a server on the cloud for about $10/mo if possible It can be cheaper to buy your own "mini" server (e.g. a small N100 ITX computer) to use on your home network. You'll get more RAM and more disk space (e.g. 16GB ram 512GB disk) to play with compared to datacenter rental prices cumulatively adding up over a year.[1] Unless the specific aspect of renting a public-facing server is part of your self-learning curriculum and/or you also need to access it from outside your home without NAT port-forwarding or Cloudflare reverse-proxy tunneling, you can self-host your playground server at home. [1] compare the rental costs and cross-reference GB of RAM and GB of disk they include for the monthly price range you want to pay. https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets https://www.linode.com/pricing/#compute-shared https://www.linode.com/pricing/#compute-shared