Post 2381630 by jerephil@cascadia.social
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(DIR) Post #2380762 by pixelpaperyarn@hackers.town
2018-12-28T22:43:23Z
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back of my brain keeps noodling on the idea of running a copule home servers. it's done this to me for at least a decade now and won't shut up about it every time i see some cool open source thing.first one would be some kind of media server that would let me serve my stuff to osx/win/linux to start. the TV too if i could make it work.the other one would be some kind of box that i could put online so i could play with installing ALL THE THINGS like gitea, nextcloud, etc. with some kind of backup system (is this where raid comes in?)i know it seems silly to run my own hardware. a lot of folks will scream CLOUD, but i dunno. i'd love doing something like this just for the experience. pretty sure this wouldn't be up 24/7 and i would definitely back up anything i did on it to other places. building my own machine this year was as good as i always imagined. i guess i just want to push that further.
(DIR) Post #2380763 by SetecAstronomy@hackers.town
2018-12-28T22:55:22Z
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@pixelpaperyarn It sounds an awful lot like what I'm doing. I've got one new machine that's my "server" and then I have several of varying ages (one's an Athlon64 for goodness sake) that I use for whatever experiment takes my fancy.I'm in the process of installing Mastodon on one of those right now, to try and pin down a problem I've been having.I splurged a little when I had some spare cash and got them all nice cases (well, the top one I already had) and stuck them in a rack I convinced an old customer to give me. I mostly did that to free up space. You can just as easily stash them anywhere you've got power and network. With SSH, and X11 over SSH you don't even need a local monitor.
(DIR) Post #2381630 by jerephil@cascadia.social
2018-12-28T23:27:57Z
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@pixelpaperyarn I run a few home servers just for fun, and a Plex server that serves various media. It's worth it IMO.
(DIR) Post #2381631 by SetecAstronomy@hackers.town
2018-12-28T23:29:52Z
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@jerephil @pixelpaperyarn Ugh. You just reminded me that I really need to audit my server and document what on earth is on it."What does it do?""Stuff."