Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 day agoFor hardware? You don’t have to use top of the line hardware to host these things. My homelab if you want to call it that is nearly 10 years old in terms of hardware, but the software is up to date.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
You kinda have if you value your electricity bill :/
Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Incorrect, a raspberry pi will run off of a phone charger (it will whine at you if it provides less than 2 amps).
And for some of the projects listed that are meant to be out in the field like Meshtastic, there are plenty of guides to get them hooked up to solar cells.
In addition, to avoid costs of the RAMpocalypse/data centers butt-fucking the local power grid, reduce, reuse and recycle. Older desktops can run hypervisors like Proxmox or other VM/container solutions to split the work load into a bunch of VMs. (Dell Refurbished has decent deals, if you dont mind scratched up cases, but its beena bit since ive checked them)
In my case, the same device hosts multiple services split into several VMs, and I just got the backup server taking nightly snapshots. Wont save my data from a fire, but if hardware issues happen, backups are being taken (still need to test them, but thats a problem for future me).
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
That’s actually exactly the reason why I didn’t upgrade. I have miniITX board with a very low TDP CPU and there’s not been anything as efficient as this one.
If you mean that faster hardware can do tasks faster: this thing has no problem running all the services I want/need, which includes some game servers.
If you are counting costs of power, also factor in the cost of new hardware as opposed to the one you have around or can be secondhand for cheap.