- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24850430
EDIT: i had an rpi it died from esd i think
EDIT2: this is also my work machine and i sleep to the sound of the fans
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the best home server is a computer you’re not using, the second best home server is a bajillion dollar server rack you looted from behind a meta LLM farm
Sure, from behind it…
I went overboard but only because I was having fun with it and didn’t like the octopus of hard drives plugged into my NUC
My only “server” is a modest DS218+ which runs more mainstream services that I see in those huge ass servers like in the pic, what am I missing? (I have 6 GBs of RAM):
- Arr stack (Bazarr, Sonarr, Radarr, Overseerr, Prowlarr)
- Plex
- Calibre and Calibre web
- DizqueTV
- Dozzle
- Flaresolverr
- Heimdall
- Iperf3 server
- JDownloader2
- Komga
- Openspeedrest
- Pi-hole
- Plex-Auto-Languages (for the Synology PMS and my Nvidia Shield TV Pro)
- PlexTraktSync
- Portainer
- Qbittorrent
- Riven/Rclone/Zurg
- Speedtest
- Tautulli (X2)
- Vaultwarden
- Zerotier
Everything is silent and running with Docker, aside from a bunch of stock Synology services (and Tailscale), I really feel like the only reason to own better hardware is for a better transcoding experience… And usually you don’t want to transcode.
dayem buddy thats cool i’m still a noob in selfhosting and using docker im using some containers like adguardhome and metube photoprism and memos still tweaking cuz i started 1 week ago
You have it backwards. We self host to justify the hardware setup.
Best starter for self hosting:
Although laptops technically have a built in battery backup 😎
I recently got a M710q with an i3 7100T. It uses around 3W on idle. I threw 8GB of RAM and a 512GB ramless NVMe for a total of under 100€. Absolutely would recommend (if you don’t need too much storage). Also Dell has some machines.
For more info, servethehome (they have a YouTube channel and a blog) has a whole series on “tiny mini micro” machines.
If wanting to have cool oscilloscopes and blinkenlights is wrong then I don’t want to be right.
no one said it’s wrong keep going
Many selfhosters are also homelabbers
Noice!
This is mine:
Lol is this an eeepc?
(Edit: Samsung logo - it is not) 🤣
They are both smol though :D
indeed smol bois
My “rack” consisted entirely of old laptops, two of which were eeepcs, for years and it worked great. I replaced them all with a single NUC later heh
The eeepc was a modern marvel at the time change my mind!
dayeeem nice really with 2 gigs
Yeah, the normal N150 had 1 GB RAM but plus model had 2 GB. Served me well. Nowadays it barely uses it though. :)
You are now banned from /c/selfhosted
what?
Your suggestion that racks of server hardware shoved into a shoe closet is unnecessary overkill betrays the very ethos of selfhosting! Your dangerous philosophy of minimalism and efficiency cannot be tolerated!
Burn the heretic!
no i don’t suggest anything both are cool and it depends on how big your selfhost projct are and how much you want to spend on it some people self host on 2 gigs of ram and it’s work fine
I genuinely can’t tell if you’re playing it straight to try and improve my poor attempt at humor, or if there’s a cultural barrier that I’m not getting across.
i think cultural barrier let me give itva search
ok so you are against me
Hmm… “against”…? As in opposed to? or as in beside?
Here’s mine. Might need to repaste it tho, the fans are literally always running pretty noticably loudly and CPU temps are at ~49° even though it’s idiling all the time at max 1%-2% CPU usage.
On a side note - is it normal for Redis to always be using 1-2% CPU even when there’s no traffic?
i literly were you but. my laptop died what are you running now?
Do you mean specs wise or software wise? It’s a Lenovo Y50 with 8 gigs RAM, an i5 4210H, and a GTX 960M.
I’m running Ubuntu server with docker and a few containers (mainly Nextcloud)
software
Is having a bunch of oscilloscopes in your electronics lab self-hosting now ?
Using old laptops or other repurposed computer for self-hosting is just great! Who does have an old computer collecting dusk in their home ? Anyone had the potential for self-hosting :)
😆
I use an Asus laptop I bought during COVID as my server. I dropped in 64GB of RAM, a pair of NVM drives and an old 2.5” SATA SSD. More than enough for my use cases. The only real software tweak I made was limiting battery charging to 60%.
how would you limit the batt i really care
For my Asus laptop the setting is maintained at the hardware level. I didn’t bother trying to find Linux software that could control it (I think there is one) but instead just booted into Windows and set it there and it will persist after that in Linux.
oh hmmm my laptop is hp so yeah nice thanks
I got like 6 old computers from 2000 to 2016 all doing different things. If I had a choice between a high end server and cobbled together mess I would always choose the mess. Lot more entertainment and fun to figure out
Mine are a bit more recent (2012-202*) but same thing. Old hardware gets used for something, my “server” is just my old i5 11500k with as much ram as I could throw at it and as many drives as I can fit in the case. Oldest is a laptop that’s my bench computer.
Helps me justify upgrades, hardware’s been capable for a long time, always impressive to me just how capable things are, and sometimes it’s part of the fun (if you enjoy problem solving) to work around limitations. Off-lease enterprise stuff interests me, would need to figure out where it lives though.
How would you connect to your “server” when you don’t know it’s IP? With static IP or DNS or both?
hostname + tailscale
For local services? - just type in static IP that I’ve assigned myself, otherwise I have a subdomain pointing to my online services. works like a charm
Dynamic DNS or static IP. Whatever is convenient for you. If humans are connecting, it is generally prefered to type in a domain name, rather than an IP address.
Yeah dynamic DNS works pretty good for me, after I set it up I never had any problems with it.
