Darkextratoasty

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What's the biggest reason you self-host? (alien.top)
 

This is purely for my own personal curiosity, but what's the main reason you self-host? I say main because I don't know how to allow multiple answers, if that's possible at all. For me it's the last option; because it's cool. If it's none of these reasons, absolutely make additional options in the comments.

@ mods, if this in any way breaks any of the rules or just generally detracts from the sub at all, I'll gladly remove it. Also I didn't flair it because none of the flairs seem to fit.

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What's the biggest reason you self-host? (alien.top)
 

This is purely for my own personal curiosity, but what's the main reason you self-host? I say main because I don't know how to allow multiple answers, if that's possible at all. For me it's the last option; because it's cool. If it's none of these reasons, absolutely make additional options in the comments.

@ mods, if this in any way breaks any of the rules or just generally detracts from the sub at all, I'll gladly remove it. Also I didn't flair it because none of the flairs seem to fit.

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Recommendations for flowchart/diagram software similar to Lucidchart? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] Darkextratoasty@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I'll check that out, thanks!

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Recommendations for flowchart/diagram software similar to Lucidchart? (alien.top)
 

I've been using lucidchart for making flowcharts and diagrams for years, but I'd like to move to something open-source/self-hosted because A. it's $100 a year, B. I have no idea how private it actually is, and C. they've now messed up my billing and overcharged me twice (had to charge back the first time).

It'd be ideal if I could host it on a server and then use it through a web browser, but even a local app would be fine, as long as it supports windows and linux.

Trying to get started in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] Darkextratoasty@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Do you need to upgrade your router? Most of the time the bottleneck is the ISP limits on the Internet connection, not the modem or router. If you do want to replace your router, my vote is Opnsense. You can run it on pretty much any x86 machine with at least two Ethernet ports.

Lowest TDP "consumer grade" (off the shelf) CPU? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] Darkextratoasty@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

If you're not doing much computing, then the idle power consumption is much more important than the tdp, in which case the motherboard and other hardware are more important than the CPU. For your use case, something like a tinyminimicro 1L PC or a Celeron mini PC would be good. I've personally played around with

  • a dell optiples 3050 micro with an i5-7500t that idles about 6 watts
  • an AliExpress n5105 mini PC that idles about 8 watts
  • an AliExpress n100 3inch mini PC that idles about 5 watts
  • an Asus Chromebox 3 with an i7-8550u that idles about 4 watts Any of these have plenty of juice to run some docker containers and a media server assuming you don't need to transcode multiple 4k streams simultaneously. I'm currently using the Chromebox as my proxmox server with 3-4 vms and maybe 20 docker containers/lxcs and it uses about 8-9 watts on average.
Need help for Network Operating Systems in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] Darkextratoasty@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

OPNsense will do what you want, although it's probably overkill in this case. Also keep in mind that any switching it does will be purely software, so it might struggle to push heavy traffic through, especially if you add rules and vlans and such. Openwrt is more lightweight and should also work, or you could just install a general Linux OS like Ubuntu or debian and use iptables to route stuff. The better option though is to just get a proper switch, since those have hardware switching.

Need help for Network Operating Systems in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] Darkextratoasty@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

Most of these boxes are just Celeron or Intel i3 based computers with a few extra NICs, they'll run pretty much anything just fine. They don't have actual switching hardware, but they've got enough CPU juice to push gigabit connections with a few simple rules/filters. I have an n5105 based one with six i226 NICs, with a simple bridge it can throughput close to 2.5gbps in iperf.

What sensors/ software do you use to measure energy consumption? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] Darkextratoasty@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I like the Sonoff S31 smart outlets flashed with tasmota, they're super easy to flash, super easy to configure, can communicate through mqtt (also easy to configure), have switching capability as well as measuring, and cost $7 a piece on Amazon.

How Many Jigowatts Do You Use? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] Darkextratoasty@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Mind sharing some details on that ryzen server? It sounds cool

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Ideas for keeping a server very busy 24/7 for a few months? (alien.top)
 

I have an old server with dual Xeon E5-2690v4 CPUs and 384GB of RAM that I used to run before I downsized, now I just spin it up every once in a while to play with. The apartment I'm currently in has electric baseboard heaters, so I figured if I have to heat the place with just electricity anyways, I might as well use a computer. Any suggestions on what to run to keep the server relatively busy? Either something that could make me a few bucks, or something where I can donate the compute time to something worthwhile, or just something fun since I have to pay for the electricity either way. Btw if this is too low effort let me know and I'll remove the post, I didn't include much detail because I'm pretty much open to any ideas.