I’m trying to better understand hosting a Lemmy Instance. Lurking discussions it seems like some people are hosting from the Cloud or VPS. My understanding is that it’s better to futureproof by running your own home server so that you have the data and the top most control of hardware, software etc. My understanding is that by hosting an instance via Cloud or VPS you are offloading the data / information to a 3rd party.
Are people actually running their own actual self-hosted servers from home? Do you have any recommended guides on running a Lemmy Instance?
There is though reasons to stray from certain consumer products for server equipment.
Yeah I’d stay away from Mac too… but seriously most modern laptops can disable any sleep/hibernation on lid close
My go to lately is Lenovo tiny, can pick them up super cheap with 6-12 month warranties, throw in some extra ram, a new drive, haven’t had any fail on me yet
You should think before releasing dangerous information on the internet!
You can get a 2core 8GB / 240GB for 75€!!
Uh oh, I think I’ll have to buy one now…
This is my little setup at the moment. Each is 8500t CPU, 32gb ram, 2tb nvme and 1tb SATA SSD all running in a proxmox cluster
Edit: also check out Dell micro or the hp… Uh I want to say it’s g6 micro? You might need to search for what is actually called
Heh, this is awesome 😅
Thanks :D the frame and all parts are self designed and 3d printed… was a fun project
The whole thing runs from just 2 power cables with room for another without adding any extra power cables
Not at all overkill? :-D
Future proofing or is it really used ? I don’t know proxmox, is it some docker launcher thingy?
Very cool anyways!
Doesn’t that mean, tiny fans howling all day long?
Only if you’ve got it cranking all day. I’ve got a couple of Tiny (they’re Micro, which is the same thing) systems that are silent when idle and nearly silent when running less than a load avg of 5. It’s only if I try to spin up a heavy, CPU-bound process that their singular fan spins fast enough to be noticable.
So don’t use one as a Mining rig, but if you want something that runs x64 workloads at 9-20 watts continuously, they’re pretty good.
Even running at full speed mine are pretty quiet but I also have 80mm silent low rpm fans blowing air across them too which seems to help
I also recently went through with fresh thermal paste
Just set it to “do nothing” when lid is closed. That’s all.
FWIW, this free app solves for that issue well; I have several clammed Macs running it right now:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12
100%, and this is why businesses don’t use laptops as servers… typically 😂.