Phase B of Anarchive Hosting: run the wiki farm ourselves for €15–18 a month, replacing the $40 managed service. A €6 VPS runs the farm; a €11 Storage Box holds the media; Caddy caches the hot clips.
## The Stack
- A Hetzner Cloud CX VPS (€5.49–6.99) runs the federated wiki farm and Caddy. 20 TB of traffic is included, so egress is a non-issue. - A 5 TB Storage Box (about €11) holds the media assets, mounted on the VPS with `rclone` or SSHFS. - Caddy caches hot clips on the VPS's local NVMe, so the Storage Box's connection limits never face the public.
## Replacing Nextcloud
Nextcloud's role in the farm is one job: syncing pages from the Mac to the server. Syncthing or plain `rsync` does that job for free on a €6 VPS. Whether to keep a small Nextcloud anyway is a separate question from hosting the wiki.
## The Honest Cost
The saving is real but the price is operational: the co-op currently carries the pager. Self-hosting means we are the ones restarting the server. The `wiki-server-restart` runbook exists, but a runbook is not an on-call rota — The Co-op Question prices this properly.
# See
- Anarchive Hosting — the plan - Trim the Coop Bill — the phase before - One Big Auction Box — the phase after - Hetzner, Caddy, The Co-op Question - Fedwiki Server Hosting, Local Farm — this site's earlier server research