Comment on Simplify home hardware for selfhosting

• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s insanely powerful yet sips power like a raspberry pi.

  It has a full OS that is mainstream so it’s easy to find any help you need.

  It’s the best bang for your buck machine on the market.

  It can run everything you want a home server to run.

  Do you disagree? Why?

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, it’s apple hardware and runs macos, so it’s a bit kneecapped. It’s not as flexible. But it is solid and you can run almost anything you can on Linux.

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  • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t have even thought to purchase a new Mac anything as a server. That is definitely not their target use case.

    What are you running at home that requires “insane power?” I’m running a servarr stack on an old Xeon that cost a fraction of a Mac mini and it works just fine. And I have room in the case for full size HDDs.

    I’ve heard of people using Mac mini as servers, and I guess whatever makes you happy. I definitely don’t see how they’re the ultimate home server.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can have a dozen people streaming from my Plex server and it spent even break a sweat, while also handling all my *arr’s, homeassistant OS, and basically anything I would use a normal computer for.

      With the power it has it will be able to handle basically anything I want to throw at it for the next decade, while sipping electricity like a light bulb.

      I don’t see how a tiny, cheap, insanely powerful, insanely power efficient, full OS running machine isn’t the ultimate home server?

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      • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Right, so it does basically the same thing mine does, and I don’t need an external DAS, and I can upgrade hardware, and it cost me a fraction of yours. I don’t know how much power mine uses because it’s a non-issue. My bill is the exact same as before I deployed it.

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      • undu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Personally, I want to properly isolate the services with virtualization. The main reason is I expose some of the services online, and I don’t t want to only rely on keeping all software up-to-date at all times. This allows me to limit the damage if one of the services is compromised.

        I wouldn’t use MacOS as the virtualization platform, and instead use something else, like BSD, Linux, or xen-based for my servers

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