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Good laptop to use as Owncast server? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apologies if this post ain't right for this community! I'm admittedly not interested in self-hosting myself, but I've a close buddy who's wanting to get back to streaming, but rightfully hates Amazon. He's wanting to self-host with Owncast to do video streaming with his pals, but lives in a very small flat with very little free space - hence the request for a laptop.

Ideally he's needing something great for video encoding, and Linux friendly to boot. No Windows. Mate's got a budget of ~£1,000.

If there's a better community for this lemme know!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Desktops usually don't have a focus on efficiency, which is important in a server.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

that is true but for beginners with a $1000 budget who ask about buying laptops to host services

I'd usually steer towards pc building as buying a laptop would usually be the worst of all options (which brings me great pain for my customers)
- and building an actual server can be costly unless you're buying easily accessible second -hand/used components

one thing I forgot to mention is that it also heavily depends on an individual's use cases, restrictions, and preferences