Towards a public homelab

I haven’t been able to make progress on my homelab. The setup was all local and I was mostly working on my own, so it wasn’t as fun to work on after a point. I also started overthinking parts of the setup, which is ironical since the idea of a lab is to experiment. Then I started coming across discussions around self-hosting email, and that got me thinking about how I could reframe the project. My current public infrastructure is a combination of three services - a web server, DNS and email - which overlapped with ideas I had for the homelab. Being able to manage these services myself sounded like a fun challenge - and suddenly the project became exciting to work on again! I was sure that I wanted to host on a Virtual Private Server or VPS - I wasn’t ready to host a machine at home just yet. A VPS lets me configure a Linux machine the way I would at home, but without me having to deal with public Internet traffic at home. The setup is also not tied to any specific platform, so I can…