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A lot of people here are worried about constantly having to worry about hardware instability for the services they are self hosting. I've been thinking of is t
by sgt 5y ago
A lot of people here are worried about constantly having to worry about hardware instability for the services they are self hosting.
I've been thinking of is to rent colo space for an 1U enclosure, with two Mac Mini M1's inside. Then run them with a tiny Mikrotik router in front that can either load balance or perhaps some other reliable piece of hardware to do HAproxy style functionality.
From that one should be able to provide a very reliable server even in the cases of hardware issues on one of them, assuming the DC has decent connectivity and redundant power - all inside one neat little package.
As much as I love macOS, I would prefer to run those two Mac Minis on Linux though. Wonder how mature the port is?
- moondev 5y agoIf you are focused on arm infrastructure for linux, you can do a lot better than a Mac mini m1, they are limited to 16GB of RAM and booting Linux is experimental at best. Check out something like the solidrun honeycomb lx2 which can take 2 32G sodimms: https://shop.solid-run.com/product/SRLX216S00D00GE064H08CH/ https://shop.solid-run.com/product/SRLX216S00D00GE064H08CH/ Designed for linux out of the box, and you can even run VMware esxi for arm and go wild with vms. https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition
- sgt 5y agoYeah but without the outstanding performance of the M1 chip I then I might as well just buy non-ARM. Saying M1 is comparable with any run of the mill ARM based CPU is the understatement of the decade. I will look at how stable the port is.