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Help me out here: I do a lot of this "self-hosting stuff," I have fiber internet. And a whole lot of y'all talk about what feels like a TON of overkill. I stil
by jrm4 4y ago
Help me out here: I do a lot of this "self-hosting stuff," I have fiber internet.
And a whole lot of y'all talk about what feels like a TON of overkill. I still don't really get what kubernetes is (20 year Linux user) or the necessity of buying a "server" for this purpose.
I use (what is relatively old) a $200 office desktop from someones surplus (Dell Optiplex 900-something, I don't even remember because it's in the closet) and Ubuntu+Docker handles everything I throw at it, easy?
- stefandesu 4y agoI agree. I have one of those fairly efficient mini PCs also running Ubuntu+Docker and it's totally fine for my use-case. I don't need 100% uptime (or even 99%) and nightly backups are more than sufficient. I can spin up an equivalent machine in about an hour from backup if necessary. (I could spend some time learning Ansible to automate this further.)
- jrm4 4y agoRight? I live in North Florida, meaning "the power will go out 7-10 times a year," so my "uptime" is not important at all, just "the thing in the bios that automatically turns the computer on without pressing the button when it recieves power" I don't need access to the music and TV shows with no TV/stereo to play them on :) READ A BOOK, kids.
- hermannj314 4y agoBut Google uses Kubernetes so you have to use it. My plumbing can barely scale to handle a dinner party, but apparently my home lab needs to be ready to provision nodes if I ever find 2 billion people in my living room.
- XCSme 4y agoSometimes I still host things on LAMP servers, there are many apps/websites/platforms that just use PHP/MySQL so I can just upload some files or edit them directly on the server.