Already own a virtual machine instance (5 usd/month) and hosting a few simple services and website.<p>The website is single page. No complex backend. At most it fetches stuff from another web service and does some crawling/crunching. I don't expect high loads here.<p>Mainly asking for the website self-hosting purpose only.<p>Can I downgrade here? Also just wondering what do most people use a 1cpu 0.5gb machine for? VPN? Personal website? Or something else?
About downgrade - you can host a static website in s3 directly, without a server at all. Maybe that's an option to explore. You can even use your own domain using a CNAME record.<p>You can push quite a lot on such machine. I used it as a shell access for my stuff from any place in the world, instant messages, IRC. Classic IM networks died so that part is gone as well, but a VPN like wireguard is a great choice.<p>A small monitoring system should fit.<p>A clean install of mariadb or postgress is around 40-60MB of RAM as far as I recall. This should open some doors as well.<p>A webdav/carddav/caldav server should also fit. I am about to check sabre/dav (sabre.io) software on a similar machine. So you can have a selfhosted calendar or access to your files on the go. Webdav can be handled by a web server directly (natively by nginx or apache etc).<p>I am recently charmed by Archivebox app, it makes backup of a website using multiple methods. UI is a custom Django Admin interface. It takes below 200 MB on my system.<p>A Teeworlds game server, if you are nostalgic towards quake but want a simpler experience for a break with friends.<p>Make sure to checkout the list at GitHub under awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted. Many, many inspirations there.
Here's a great list that you can look into: <a href="https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted">https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted</a>
I remember I was able to run Oracle 6 or 8 once with it<p>It should be fine if your backend is not doing any memory operations<p>If you want to host another website, you can do it but just keep it static no backend involve