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the service https://www.pair.com has been highly reliable for me for ~20 years now.

I use their "shared web hosting" tier and just upload a static site to my $HOME/public_html directory where it's served by their system. Very simple, and you control the site content (html/css/js and images or whatnot).

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I understand the processes required but if you or anyone here knows, what would be the least expensive / most sustainable way to set up a personal VPN & pihole plus a simple website hosted on a server?

I already run a small server at home for NAS / HomeAssistant / PiHole, etc., but I would like to be able to access it anywhere and enjoy the benefits of ad blocking and personal media access on my phone outside of my home network, but I don't want to spend $25+/month for crap tier single 9 service, and at the same time, I don't need flawless service with five 9 uptime guarantees at any price, either.

I'm guessing that I would need a VPS provider that allows SSH access to some flavor of linux server with a static IP or at least a domain name.

Am I on the money with this, or is there something that I didn't consider?

If I am, would you still recommend pair.com or is there a VPS provider that might be a better fit?

For something like this, I’d look at a small cloud instance running at Hetzner or similar. You can run Pihole on that so you don’t have to reflect your traffic through your home Internet connection. You can then use something like ZeroTier or Tailscale to be able to access your home server and the Pihole service while you’re on the road, so you’re not worried about making services available to the whole Internet.

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