I get it. I ended up going with the solution I did because of the resources I happen to have available, but I use third-party hosting for well over 10 years.
off topic but do you have any tips for scavenging parts from things and reusing them? scored some old desktop towers recently but not sure what to use for besides retro games
Of all the different things that I'm running, I think the coolest is definitely nextcloud.
It has a number of apps built into it, so you can have it gather news articles with an RSS reader, you can manage your phone numbers and your calendar and do a number of other things, and for me it's really great that I have multiple computers and I use nextcloud sync on all of them so I basically have the same set of files available on all my different computers, even the ones that I take with me on the road.
If all that sounds too complicated, there's also some benefit to building your own Network attached storage. You can build something with multiple drives that's in a relatively secure location, especially if you use laptop for everything and one drop could destroy all your data.
I have to admit though, besides running on my websites, there's a very limited number of things that I can use all my computers for.
Some might be interested in things like crypto mining or crowd computing. Crowd computing can be neat, but not all projects may fit with one's ethics or politics. For instance, you can use crowd computing to help do AIDS research or create preliminary antivirals/vaccines. Other things such as processing astronomy or radiotelescope data are less objectionable.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
All hosted on parts scavenged from roadside signs.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I don't have the upload bandwidth to host much. Only 10mb up. Worked for about 20 users on Lemmy but higher traffic would slow down things.
8gigs of ram and 100gb is only 40$ a month on dream compute. And they don't sensor. They host the Nazi parties website.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
I get it. I ended up going with the solution I did because of the resources I happen to have available, but I use third-party hosting for well over 10 years.
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
off topic but do you have any tips for scavenging parts from things and reusing them? scored some old desktop towers recently but not sure what to use for besides retro games
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
Of all the different things that I'm running, I think the coolest is definitely nextcloud.
It has a number of apps built into it, so you can have it gather news articles with an RSS reader, you can manage your phone numbers and your calendar and do a number of other things, and for me it's really great that I have multiple computers and I use nextcloud sync on all of them so I basically have the same set of files available on all my different computers, even the ones that I take with me on the road.
If all that sounds too complicated, there's also some benefit to building your own Network attached storage. You can build something with multiple drives that's in a relatively secure location, especially if you use laptop for everything and one drop could destroy all your data.
I have to admit though, besides running on my websites, there's a very limited number of things that I can use all my computers for.
Spotted_Lady@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Some might be interested in things like crypto mining or crowd computing. Crowd computing can be neat, but not all projects may fit with one's ethics or politics. For instance, you can use crowd computing to help do AIDS research or create preliminary antivirals/vaccines. Other things such as processing astronomy or radiotelescope data are less objectionable.
Or, one can use older boxes as Linux boxes.