Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks agoIt’s not vague at all. You can run many services on your local server that you can then use while also on your home network, but you don’t want/need them to be accessible from outside your network - home assistant for example. Others would be things like NZBGET/SABNZBD, the *arr stack, and many, many more.
Your home server can also expose whatever you want to the internet, it’s up to you. It also means you can troubleshoot/update/upgrade everything yourself at any time, and you’re not trusting some company you’re paying $4/month for a VPS to do it and be secure/a conscious.
Also I would never run a phone as a server over a raspberry pi, that’s a terrible idea unless you’ve taken it apart and have it running off mains power without a battery in it.
solrize@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Home Assistant is kind of interesting for solar power I guess, though I haven’t looked into it much. Otherwise it’s a smart home thing right? See the biggaybunny link I posted ;). I had to look up NZBGET and so on, but yeah, if I was trying to keep it private I certainly wouldn’t want to connect to it from home internet. I used to have a server in Romania that would have been a good candidate for stuff like that if I were into it. Download to that and then scp to home.
Nothing stops me from upgrading/downgrading VPS software any way I want afaik. Although it might less secure than a dedicated server. I have had dedis in various places at different times though my main beater machine is a VPS. I tend to think hosted servers are more secure against physical intrusions than a home server is, though who knows. The software is basically the same, and the DC’s have good DDOS protection.
Yeah you’re probably right about using a phone as a server. It’s a cool re-use though.