I have been using Open EVSE for years and love them, They have a nicely documented API so i can control them with just about anything.

I came here to say that

Now you get a 10 minute ad for a 2 minute video

It depends on where your priorities are. For me i would go for cheap\shitty place so long as it was safe enough and i wasn’t going to be robbed all the time. Save the money and then go buy a place you really like when you can afford it better.

Have you played with NextCloud

I have been using Proxmox with a couple thousand VM’s and have been very happy with it.

Very well said!