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I self hosted windows for many years, mostly because that is what I used at work. I liked it because it hid some of the low level details and worked most of the time.

The thing that finally made me switch was the exorbitant cost of licenses and the need to run services on older hardware.

DM me if you want some keys. I have a few copies of win10 and winIOT laying around that I’m not going to use.

you are correct @iamthetot.

take it out. I had more than one ballon on me when I left them in.

there are lots of reasons it can happen,but since this was in a closet I didn’t notice it and I suppose could’ve been a fire hazard eventually.

some laptops might have reduced performance in this configuration though.

I followed one of the many guides for installing proxmox on Rpis. 3node, 4gb rpi4s

I use the cluster for lighter services like Trilium, FreshRss, secondary DNS, a jumpbox… and something else I forget. I’m going to try immich and see how it performs.

my recent goto for cheap($200-300) servers are Debian + old Intel Macbook pros. I have two Minecraft bedrock servers on MBPs… one an i5, the other an i7.

I also use a Lenovo laptop to host some industrial control software for work.

my two bare metal servers are the file server and music server. I have other services in a pi cluster.

file server because I can’t think of why I would need to use a container.

the music software is proprietary and requires additional complications to get it to work properly…or at all, in a container. it also does not like sharing resources and is CPU heavy when playing to multiple sources.

if either of these machines die, a temporary replacement can be sourced very easily(e.g. the back of my server closet) and recreated from backups while I purchase new or fix/rebuild the broken one.

IMO the only reliable method for containers is a cluster because if you’re running several containers on a device and it fails you’ve lost several services.

oh, she was. found her several years earlier in a trash pile at an office building I was working at… with the protective plastic still stuck on the screen.

she met her doom against a concrete floor during a studio shuffle… sad day.

was going through some old pictures and decided I’d post a retro setup. pretty sure I took this picture with my android g1…so 2008ish?

here is a pic of one of my first selfhost setups. I began selfhosting for music and have never stopped. this iteration was stuffed behind a bar that was built in to the basement at my old house

the old fashioned was custom built and was running some flavor of windows server. the one on the floor was the first Linux server I had run to do something useful…torrents and subsonic IIRC. I pieces that server together with random parts, mostly donated from old family PCs. two UPS units were on the bottom rack of that metro shelf to battery back the servers and the tomato router out of frame.

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