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I self host most everything through unRAID. I spent a good amount of money getting a good server setup. The only thing I rely on the cloud for is email. I've g
by oaththrowaway 4y ago
I self host most everything through unRAID. I spent a good amount of money getting a good server setup. The only thing I rely on the cloud for is email.
I've gone through several iterations of hardware and hard drive capacity over about 7-8 years now. Hard to imagine I'll ever go back.
It's not even about the monthly subscriptions, I've spent more on hardware I'm sure, plus my monthly VPN and Usenet fees. It's really an exhaustion of SaaS becoming essentially keyloggers of our entire lives. I guess self hosting is the closest we have of opting out, but even then it's not enough.
- AnthonyMouse 4y agoWhat are you spending a significant amount of money on hardware? A used PC is ~$50, assuming you don't already have one. Spinning rust is ~$10/TB: https://www.amazon.com/HGST-Ultrastar-HUH728080ALE604-3-5-Inch-Enterprise/dp/B079TL4TDJ https://www.amazon.com/HGST-Ultrastar-HUH728080ALE604-3-5-In... https://www.ebay.com/itm/125797516426 https://www.ebay.com/itm/125797516426 It can be done for less than $100, done well for less than $300.
- oaththrowaway 4y agoPart of it is that I'm running a gaming VM on it and passing through a GPU to that. Plus I have another GPU for transcoding my media to HEVC. Lots of RAM for all the containers as well. I also wrote my own container that I use for all my development so I like to keep it snappy for that. I have about 20TB of platter storage (WD Reds) + parity, and 2TB of SSD cache (an additional 2TB SSD passed into the gaming vm) It slowly adds up. I started with a Raspberry Pi and a USB hard drive as storage.