I just started renting a basic VPS through Racknerd with the intent to use it as a reverse proxy to point friends to my game server instances running at home without exposing my public IP. I could not figure out how to get it to work so I gave up after days of trying and am now using playit.gg. I prepaid for a year of the VPS. What cool project should I try on it now?
you can run a fediverse instance (mastodon, goto, pixelfed, calckey, kbin,…), or a nextcloud server for you/your friends, or a matrix server, or use it a build server for something, a wireguard node, …
really it’s up to you