Home Server has been offline for a bit as I grappled with MS Azure and setting up a FreeBSD VM. The initial setup went fine, and the first month was free, but trying to establish the monthly running costs for a comparable VM to the current setup proved elusive so I never actually got a “mirror” of this site up and running in the MS Cloud.
So I waited it out and eventually the real prices became visible, £79 per month so the equivalent VM for what I only paid £140 a one-off for the physical box sat here at home. Yes, it burns electricity and hums away in the corner and needs me to feed VirginMedia a shedload of money per month, to keep the “VIP” bandwidth and upload speed but I would be doing that anyway for the rest of the family, MS Azure and FreeBSD does not currently work for me.