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Mostly because you want a dedicated device to serve off of. If your desktop is always on it isn't that much different. My desktop gets shut down, rebooted, cr
by doubled112 4y ago
Mostly because you want a dedicated device to serve off of. If your desktop is always on it isn't that much different.
My desktop gets shut down, rebooted, crashed, wiped and reloaded, and otherwise abused as I get thoughts.
My home server has been the same (don't worry I run updates) for a couple years, chugging along, sipping about 1/4 the power my desktop would take.
In the beginning of your self hosting journey, the opposite might be true. You might want to try 300 things, and that's hard to do if you're trying to get work done on your desktop.
- sangnoir 4y agoI have Pi's and old, beefy computers and what I really need is an "elastic personal cloud" where I can bring up the high-powered computer(s) online on demand[1]. I have WiFi-connected sockets and a python script than can turn them on or off, but no orchestration or global state. 1. My 12-year old, former top-of-the-line laptop is much faster than my 3rd-gen Pi when periodically ingesting and indexing JSON into a PostgeSQL db, I suspect slow IO and limited memory are to blame.
- doubled112 4y agoI have used wake on LAN sometimes for this too, but that was close enough for me, and I lost interest. WoW (wake on wife), worked pretty well from the office, but I seem to get a little bit of latency and packet loss. Now I work from home, so I just get up and hit the power button on the more powerful machines. My shock with compute power was when I got the Pi 4. It was faster than the AMD e350 I was using for backups except for disk IO. The E350 was not a powerful machine new, but I didn't realize how far we had come. A USB 3 enclosure brought it to a level that was good enough the entire mini ITX build was pointless to keep around.