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Does "Selfhosted" mean you actually have a server at home? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm trying to better understand hosting a Lemmy Instance. Lurking discussions it seems like some people are hosting from the Cloud or VPS. My understanding is that it's better to futureproof by running your own home server so that you have the data and the top most control of hardware, software etc. My understanding is that by hosting an instance via Cloud or VPS you are offloading the data / information to a 3rd party.

Are people actually running their own actual self-hosted servers from home? Do you have any recommended guides on running a Lemmy Instance?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (27 children)

There is though reasons to stray from certain consumer products for server equipment.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Yeah I'd stay away from Mac too... but seriously most modern laptops can disable any sleep/hibernation on lid close

My go to lately is Lenovo tiny, can pick them up super cheap with 6-12 month warranties, throw in some extra ram, a new drive, haven't had any fail on me yet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lenovo tiny

Doesn't that mean, tiny fans howling all day long?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only if you've got it cranking all day. I've got a couple of Tiny (they're Micro, which is the same thing) systems that are silent when idle and nearly silent when running less than a load avg of 5. It's only if I try to spin up a heavy, CPU-bound process that their singular fan spins fast enough to be noticable.

So don't use one as a Mining rig, but if you want something that runs x64 workloads at 9-20 watts continuously, they're pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even running at full speed mine are pretty quiet but I also have 80mm silent low rpm fans blowing air across them too which seems to help

I also recently went through with fresh thermal paste

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