Here’s the server that’s been running my two #fediverse instances and #Hugo blog for the past two years.
It’s a low-power Intel NUC with a Celeron processor, 16 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB SSD. The entire setup lives under my printer and cost less than $300.
Bandwidth demands are modest—just a few gigs weekly. No fancy tunneling involved either. It’s just a straightforward router setup forwarding a couple of ports, a script that updates the server’s IP with my registrar as needed, and a robust Fail2ban rule set to keep things a bit secure.
No more corporate social networks and VPSes!
KevinOnEarth
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Are others I've downloaded from YouTube (& other sites) also delivered by RSS?
I don't subscribe to a feed reader, download podcast apps or give any of them my email address.
(I've nothing against RSS.)
Cory Doctorow
in reply to KevinOnEarth • • •The program you use to download podcasts, whether that is Apple Podcasts, Antennapod, or something else, is an RSS reader.
Podcasts are structured as attachments inside of an RSS feed. The way you listen to a podcast is by downloading and playing an MP3 (streaming is just a form of downloading).
It is downloaded to your device by your podcast app.
The way the podcast app finds those MP3 files is by loading and parsing an RSS feed.