Incessant tinkerer since the 70’s. Staunch privacy advocate. SelfHoster. Musician of mediocre talent. https://soundcloud.com/hood-poet-608190196

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldIs Plex really Self Hosting?
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    6 hours ago

    Is <insert thing here> really Self Hosting?

    I don’t really get hung up on the nomenclature and definitions. If you run your services off of a VPS and call it selfhosting, more power to you. No skin off my nose. If you run your services off of a homelab rack that dims the lights whenever you power it on and you call it selfhosting, more power to you. If you’re running your services off of an old repurposed, disposable vape unit, and you call it selfhosting, git sum. It’s a big umbrella and we can all coexist without nitpicking each other. Gatekeeping is something I don’t do, and it gets tiresome to hear others regurgitate the same trope over and over again.

    ETA: @CallMeAl@piefed.zip, nice profile shot.







  • Nothing fancy—I’m looking for 1 or 2 mini servers or SFF with at least 16GB of memory and a decent CPU (4–6 cores)

    Not in the EU, so…

    The Optiplex 7020 SFF with the i7-4790 chip are pretty robust little computers, regularly sell on Amazon for less than $200. The 9020 MT is a bit older, however still capable @ well under $200 USD on Amazon. I’d upgrade the 9020 to a i7-4790 chip which you can normally find, used, on ebay for less than $50 USD. The models in that range take DDR3 which you can find good prices for at https://www.memorystock.com/. I’ve been using them for years. The bad part about shopping for used computers on ebay is that, while you might be able to find some killer deals initially, most often they stick it to you good with shipping.

    Also: Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro Not too shabby either.

    I just recently got a Optiplex 9020 MT 16 GB RAM for $124 USD / free shipping off of Amazon. Shopped around ebay for the i7-4790 which cost me $35 USD, and 16 GB DDR3 RAM for $50. Not a bad little set up for right at the $200 USD mark. I’m setting it up for a friend of mine’s son who wants to get into selfhosting at the age of 10. It’s no threadripper but a solid piece.







  • Didn’t down vote, and I get what you’re saying to a certain extent. I’m not touting my server as hack-proof in the least, but it would take some work. My concern wouldn’t be someone hacking in and listening to my personal music collection I’ve been working on for decades…it goes all the way back to 1937.

    I would be more concerned that my compromised server was used as a zombie attack on some other server. The first VPS server got ransacked and used over-nite to (unsuccessfully) DDoS another business site.I got a ton of nasty grams for that boner. I didn’t loose anything but time.

    Bitcoin miners are easy to spot. I’ve never really understood why someone would hack into a small server and deploy a nefarious miner. On a huge corporate server farm, sure. But not some small selfhost VPS somebody found on lowendbox.


  • I’ve got whole home audio. 150 watts…just crank that bitch up. LOL Never heard of SnapCast but I bookmarked the link for later on this evening. I like the site. Very clean and easily readable.

    If you’re old enough and you live in North America, you probably remember Ronco

    Ron Popeil…very interesting pitch man/entrepreneur. His infomercials were cheesier than Wisconsin, but you remember them.

    Thank you for sharing