Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks agoYou don’t understand the concept of not having to carry your laptop everywhere with you to listen to your music? What?
Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks agoYou don’t understand the concept of not having to carry your laptop everywhere with you to listen to your music? What?
solrize@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I mostly listen at home, but I do have some music files on my phone. I could put them all there in principle. The phone has 256GB of local storage and an SD slot that can take a 2TB card. It’s a cheap phone too (Moto G series). I have a few GB of music that I listen to plus some archived.
If I’m going to stream to my phone away from home though, that means the streaming server has to be on the internet, and wasn’t one idea of a home server to be off the internet? I do have a bunch of such files on a bare metal dedicated server at OVH. They have better things to do than examine my files and delete stuff with the wrong kind of lyrics. I do understand not wanting to use stuff like Google Drive where they do mess with the files.
Even if I wanted to totally control the hardware I’d probably look into colo. But dedicated servers always end up being cheaper.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
No, home servers aren’t made to be off the internet.
solrize@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Well that was one idea mentioned by one of the other posters: better security by having the server off the network.
I think my luddite tastes in software are part of it, but if I have a server on the network, it might as well be in a data center where I don’t have to worry about space, power, noise, ICE raids (my servers are in several countries so they’d at least have more work to do), etc. I can add or delete new hardware with a few clicks. I actually do have an old Supermicro 1U server in my kitchen but it’s just sitting there unpowered. I had intended to colo it but it’s just not worth doing that. I had forgotten about it.
Even if I have a server at home, I probably want to back it up over the network, so then what? There are remote copies of the files then either way.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
The benefit of having it at home on your hardware is that you have way more control, and it is on your local network so it can control local network stuff without going through the internet, while also being connected to the internet for things that are internet-requiring.