Spent half the day spinning up and configuring a VPS on the Microsoft Azure free tier that lasts a year. Pretty fun to mess around with, and I installed #miniflux on it as my #rss reader.
I already have a bunch of things running on my home server, but I don't like exposing it outside of my network, so a VPS is quite nice for that.
@marvka What did you think of their UI?
@yuvipanda Minifluxs or Mastodons?
The Miniflux UI is quite nice I think, very simple and does what I need it to do, namely display me my feeds and articles. And its dark mode is pleasant.
Azure on the other hand is a bit of a mess due to how modular and configurable it is, and it isn't particularly clear what is going to incur a cost and what isn't.
@marvka ah, Azure's. I too like Miniflux's, and detest Azure's.
@marvka That's an awesome idea. Might have a play with that myself!