I have very little money and I just need something I can use to proxy traffic (HTTP mainly for my website) from the internet back to my server on my home network so that people can't tell where I live
Any dirt cheap hosting providers that just let me access some Unix system remotely?
Unlimited destruction on """the cloud""" of course
np, I have a VPS with them myself (for running Nextcloud and a few other things that I started operating myself after deciding to really move away from Google products) and the experience has been positive
It depends on how much network traffic you expect. It can get very expensive if you're routing a lot of data.
I'd recommend comparing Linode vs Digital ocean vs. Hetzner as a starting point. You can also check the big companies but I'm guessing you're interested in avoiding them.
Keep in mind that cloud services are just someone else's computer. If your goal is to be highly secure, this is a potential risk.
I'm not that bright when it comes to self hosting or hosting. But did you try docker. Based on your needs to proxy traffic I feel like docker can be of help. I am not well versed so sorry.
I don't know if this helps or not. I ran into stuff like this cause I don't have much to pay or want to. So I tried looking at stuff like docker. Never got around to it.