How did you do that, self host? Co-locate?
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wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours agoHetzner was good for me, but I went all-in on bare metal, with no looking back.
Nilz@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
I may need to do a proper write up on that one, as it’s quite a long story actually. The main thing is, though: it’s hard to believe how actually good modern hardware is. You can do a lot with a Raspberry Pi, not to say Mac mini. Over the decades, I accumulated some old hardware which serves till it would break. And then I’d replace it with similar hardware, I guess. E.g. I have a media server, which is a simple lighttpd web server running on an obsolete Intel Atom computer. It’s slow, but it does its job at serving files. I have old MacBook Pro hosting my Immich library.
All that is rather a self-hosted territory, but I’m pretty confident I can host a production grade stuff off my own hardware. I have been using the cheapest options at DO/Hetzner, so I definitely can host off a maxed out Mac mini or similar.
All that lives at home, or in the office (I am allowed to have some hardware there). I think the main restriction is the gigabit internet… but hey! That’s plenty too!
If I’d ever come to some serious level of hosting, yes, I think I’d co-locate at some data centre. I see very little need in cloud services, as all I need can be done with the bare metal. And it’s so much fun! Feels like magic, seeing an old laptop you’d throw out otherwise, serving as what would be a full-blown server just two decades ago.
moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 6 hours ago Their auctioned baremetal servers are a steal
dan@upvote.au 15 hours ago
My guess would be renting a dedicated server, or a home server. It can end up cheaper than colo.
self host?
Hosting at home, renting a dedicated server, or colocating are all considered self-hosting.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Hetzner recently skyrocketed the pricing of their VPS offerings.