I like racknerd for cheap vps. Check their black Friday deals (they’re up all the time).

Also check lowendtalk, sometimes you’ll find good deals.

I haven’t used yacy in a whole, but i had configured it to auto import and index links from linkding. I also imported my browser history to get started.

Never tried the p2p option though so not sure how well that worked. I was worried about indexing private sites on accident .

Piper works pretty well. I’m only using it because it was easier to find a custom glados voice.

Kokoro has good default voices. I also started trying out Speaches recently. It provides an open ai api wrapper around several options