I've been hosting my side projects on a Synology NAS I bought back in 2018. I would have the NAS anyway to backup my laptop etc, so the hardware is effectively

I've been hosting my side projects on a Synology NAS I bought back in 2018. I would have the NAS anyway to backup my laptop etc, so the hardware is effectively free for hosting. Power draw is low so it's on a basic consumer UPS which has worked fine for the short power outages we've had (minutes). RAID means that a drive dying doesn't impact service, although I've yet to have a drive outright die, I've just had them start developing bad sectors and preemptively replaced them (btrfs checksumming keeps the data safe) I have backups going to a cloud storage service, so if the crap hits the bucket when I'm traveling, I can just spin up a VPS and restore to there (which is what I would have to do if a cloud server died anyway)