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This is very doable nowadays and in fact may be cheaper, more reliable, and faster than renting a VPS with unpredictable noisy neighbours. Just grab a mini-PC f
by _1tem 1y ago
This is very doable nowadays and in fact may be cheaper, more reliable, and faster than renting a VPS with unpredictable noisy neighbours. Just grab a mini-PC from Beeline for $200 and you've got a 16 GB RAM powerful baremetal server for the price of renting an equivalent VPS for 2 months from DigitalOcean.
Backup power is easily achieved with a UPS, and backup internet connection with an LTE router (or two).
But the feeling of being able to tinker with something physically in your own space? Cannot be beat. You can do so much that isn't possible over SSH, just because it is there.
- sellmesoap 1y agoMy favourite home server is a laptop with a broken screen, built in UPS for cheap! I replaced the WiFi card with an Ethernet card and bob as they say, is my uncle!
- mrheosuper 1y agoThere are 2 reasons why i still have VPS: Static Ipv4 IP and isolation. I don't trust my skill enough to setup a completely secure server and confidently let it face the public internet.
- _1tem 1y agoStatic IPv4 is easily achieved with either Cloudflare or Tailscale or Ngrok. Cloudflare also provides strong firewall/DDOS protection.