Increasingly feeling the urge to host my new server at home, rather than in the cloud.
Main blocker is the upfront expense: I'd need to buy the hardware, find a place for it, and connect it. I'd still need a (small) box in the cloud to act as a public face for it, 'cos I don't have a static IP at home, nor IPv6.
Erion
in reply to algernon ludd • • •Depending on what your needs are, you might be able to get away with a Raspberry Pi and a script to update your IP (dyndns, NameCheap, TailScale, etc). Some ISPs also offer a fixed IP package, Digi used to do this for example.
It's not always fun, but the knowledge that none of the big companies handle my and friends' data is absolutely worth it.
algernon ludd
in reply to Erion • • •Unfortunately, I need a bit more oomph than an RPi (and for various reasons, would prefer x86_64, rather than arm64). Making it publicly acessible is not a problem, I can get that done fast and cheap.
The problem is obtaining the hardware (which isn't expensive, I just can't justify the upfront expense atm), and finding a place for it at home.
It would be absolutely worth it, 100%. It's just... I'm not in a position currently to do that, even if I wanted to. So it remains on my TODO/wishlist - something to dream about every once in a while.
Erion
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in reply to algernon ludd • • •Hmm. I just realized: I have an old Intel Mac Mini sitting unused (originally used to test #Kaleidoscope & #Chrysalis with under macOS). While it's pretty weak in many aspects (only 4GB ram, and ~500Gb disk), it might work as a temporary server. Something I can start migrating to.
Once I have the server at home, migrating to another should be a lot easier and faster, 'cos I just need to copy the
/persistpartition, and can do so locally. The way things are set up is going to be the same.algernon ludd
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in reply to Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺 • • •Well, there's official NixOS installers for ARM64, so that shouldn't be much of a problem. :)
There's also nixos-apple-silicon to guide me through the process.
GitHub - tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon: Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs
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