I have one that runs my bookwyrm, owncast, calibreweb, and matrix (WIP) instances.
Gotta love self-hosting federation c:
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@rockhandle That's how I started. Proxmox on a 9 year old laptop with LXC and VMs. Even now that laptop runs proxmox with pfsense and pihole VMs and is serving as my home router :)
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Thinkpad T430, i7 gen 1,16gb home server
when I first explored the world of kubernetes my nodes consisted of discarded laptops I've dubbed "half-tops," or truly "headless" servers. it was a beautiful abomination.
I just use an old laptop as my main computer. Now I have a reason to keep it if I ever upgrade.
All day long. I ssh into mine & run docker. Works surprisingly well. Better than the $5/month droplet.
yep!
I used to run an old Dell R610. Used a decent amount of power.
Switched to an old 4th gen quadcore i7 laptop.
Been running great, uses less power, has a built in display and keyboard.
Linux base, Docker Env for most everything else.
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I actually used to host a pretty sizable minecraft server on a laptop.
Actually worked pretty well, was able to support around 150 or so concurrent users, and this was back in the bukkit days.
Omg that’s a great idea I have an 8 thread 4 core from 2012 that was my main laptop 3 years ago.
Yup, laptop for testing, old gaming PC for production.
I used to but the fan eventually broke. It works if I flip it upsidedown so the vents face upwards but the CPU is still hitting 90 degrees idle 💀
Looked into selling my old gaming laptop just recently, and it just doesn't seem like its worth selling them, if they are any older than 5 years, and not top spec. Making a server/node/test machine, might be the best option. Still not comfortable with the laptop battery as ups thing.
Still not comfortable with the laptop battery as ups thing.
what do you mean comfortable? It's basically designed for it.
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I have like 3 spare laptops, and another spare computer. I'm not running anything right now because this router doesn't support port forwarding no matter what I try (it's a firmware issue apparently), but they're always there for me when I need them.
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Shoutout to my 16 year old dell laptop running god knows what for all eternity
I thought about it, but the additional display, made me think about power saving, how to shut off screen, while keeping the headless service loaded? ... premature optimization?
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I took my first foray into media hosting by running subsonic on an old emachines laptop! ain't nothing wrong!
Yeah until it stopped working. The heat is the problem. It lasts for like 6 months of 24/7 usage.
As a test machine, yes. As a production machine... Meh.
Little memory, slow and small disk...
3 x laptops for a high availability Openshift deployment!
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