The great advantage of a VPS is that you won't have port restrictions, traffic shaping and generally a fast uplink. Aside from that, a VPS means no hardware maintenance and it's not your personal IP-address.
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## Take the ‘home’ in homebrewserver.club literally and the ‘self’ in self-hosting figuratively
That means we try to host from our homes rather than from data centres - a.k.a. 'the cloud' - and we try to host for and with our communities rather than just for ourselves.
Primarily the homebrewserver.club wants to be a space for learning together. This either means that you are knowledgeable about a topic and willing to share or that you are curious and willing to learn. We are all about the long route that provides grounded understandings instead of mindlessly copy pasting things into the terminal to install software via $current_hip_framework.
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## Be an amateur
What works for data centres and the industry does not necessarily work for homebrew servers. As such, the homebrewserver.club documentation won’t be exhaustive. We rather intend to add to existing on-line knowledge, particularly from the perspective of the homebrew server admin.
We subscribe to the principles of the [Feminist Server Manifesto](https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit_afterlife.xhtml) forwarded by our friends at Constant, a non-profit, artist-run organisation based in Brussels active in the fields of art, media and technology.
