Wait so it’s not just that my vps only has 1gb of ram?

You guys with more ram still get crashes?

Honesty just reading them all doesn’t take long as they aren’t super long or wordy, and then you know what the terms for using any FOSS software is just by looking at what the licence is

Nextcloud, after setting it up it gives me everything I love about Google and Apple’s cloud services without the privacy invasion or any of the other cons. And I even find it more stable and less buggy. 10/10

As someone who is also looking at building a server for different things then you( mainly nextcloud and a few other self hosted services). if you don’t need more then 2tb of storage look into a used HP mini office PC.

• They are cheap at less then £200 for an older model or even sub £100

• They are a lot more powerful then an SBC like a raspberry pi but without being an electricity consumption monster like a lot of servers

• Some have a 60W PSU so they are dirt cheap to run

• Newer ones have a 2.5 SATA slot and a M.2 slot( including the 60W model I’m looking at getting used). So you can have dual drives for a fast main drive and a backup drive or RAID depending on how you set it up

• They are small and don’t take up much room in your house like a raspberry pi

• If you need more space and it doesn’t have to be super fast you could get a USB NAS for it

So overall they are a really good option if you want something small and you don’t have a ton of money for hardware or electricity but a raspberry pi doesn’t fulfil your performance needs.

If you look at FOSS it doesn’t just mean it’s free. Any WordPress plugin you get from the official repos with have a GPL licence, so you are free to look at and modify all the code and even repackage and sell your own version under the same terms. That’s the joy of the GPL