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Moving my Blog off of Linode and back Home (Sort of) (blog.networkprofile.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Well, that didn't take very long at all! As with almost everything, the cloud seems appealing, and then slowly increased in price while the service gets reduced

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been hosting most of my stuff at my parents home on a old NUC too, but over time that NUC started failing and needed a hard reboot, so it was offline until I got hold of my dad to restart it. I then brought it home so I could reboot it quicker, but then it totally stopped booting and I had to get everything from backup and put it on a Hetzner VPS because I didn't want to spent so much money buying a new NUC.

But I agree that hosting from home is really nice, especially when you need a lot of space for your data like I'm doing with my PeerTube instance. Now I pay quite a lot of money to Hetzner to host everything, I think about 50 EUR per month, for that money I could get a new NUC or even something better within a year, so I'm really thinking about what to get which would use very little electricity, would be powerful enough and quiet enough to have running at home.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check out the Lenovo Tiny’s, can get them used on eBay for quite cheap. I’m running a M720q with 64GB of RAM, an in i7-8700T, with Dual 10GB NIC’s. Uses hardly any power!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

+1 this. I went further and have a 3 node proxmox cluster with a mix of beelink and minisforum pcs. If I find that I need more cpu power I can add another node to the cluster and drop the weakest link and proxmox handles moving all the vms/lxcs

At $50 a month using cloud services you could buy a very beefy mini pc but that also means you have to manage it. I’d say that it took about a month of setting up everything to get to a point where I only log into proxmox ~1-2 times a month.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

kudos pal!

cloud is overrated.