I’d like to know this too, along with how you mitigate traffic spikes while using the internet connection as both your home internet and your public internet.

There are no traffic spikes, it’s not serving web content to the public internet.

I probably should have been a little more clear that I don’t think VPS systems are bad or anything, it’s just that they aren’t well-suited to game servers and hardware in my closet is well-suited to it.

I was spending almost 20 euros a month for a single Hetzner cloud instance that performed worse than all my gaming VMs on my closet computer.

But if I was serving a public website or app I would probably not want it going through my home internet.

I don’t know but probably a bit under $5 a month if 35 watts is my guess at the system idle. I haven’t bothered metering it.