I use a Raspberry Pi, not a VPS -- as others state, Codex/Claude Code alongside things like Cloudflare and Tailscale make self hosting far easier.

People have commented a lot already, but one thing I do that I haven't seen others already doing yet is I run a news summarization pipeline with Miniflux and Flatnotes.

All my feeds are in one of two categories; Summarize and NoSummarize. Once a day, a script fires at everything unread in the Summarize category, pulls the full text from Miniflux (or calls a scraping service if it appears to only have an article stub), groups similar articles to together with a 60 to 80 word summary, and for everything not grouped together it gives each article a 20 word or so summary. Just enough for me to know if it warrants a full read or not. Then it takes that a posts the digest to a markdown file in a Flatnotes folder. Flatnotes I expose via Tailscale Funnel so I can read it anywhere, including on my work laptop if I'm at the office.

Why Miniflux and Flatnotes and not other options? Mostly because those two are about as lightweight as it gets with still pleasing interfaces and basic features.