This infrastructure may be small or large, depending on the organization. For example, Microsoft has many large systems and services that require upkeep and maintenance.
A person may also run hosts and services. While these don't have the same scale as a big company, the hosts still need to be managed.
In this post, I will detail how I run my infrastructure.
## Providers
Because I am a student, I don't have the resources for hosting critical services myself. Ideally, I would love to host my infrastructure on hosts I own, but that's not possible. Instead, I rent servers and services from cloud providers. These providers are as follows:
- Hetzner - a German company
- They provide a dedicated 2 vCPU server with 8 GB RAM.
- They also provide a Storage Box that is used for various need such as backups and general storage.
- Contabo - a German company
- They currently provide one 6 vCPU, 16 GB RAM server.
- Backblaze - a US company
- They are a storage provider specializing in S3 storage.
- They provide storage for several services as well as general storage.
## Software
Now I will detail the software and the host it runs on.
