cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32242829

Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:47 Buying cheap and power hungry homelab gear 04:53 How to configure C-States? 07:59 Does Powertop hurt your performance? 08:43 How to find out what prevents HDD spindown? 10:05 Is an all-SSD NAS worth it? 12:21 ARM-powered homelab? 13:51 Exposing your homelab services? 16:40 TrueNAS/Unraid vs. a regular Linux distro? 17:59 My backup strategy 19:32 Getting friends and family into backups 20:05 Cheap VPS for hosting Headscale 20:48 To UPS or not to UPS? 21:39 My storage setup

  • 4k93n2@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    15 hours ago

    yea never liked the term much either.

    while we’re venting, self-hosting isnt a great term either. it should just be ‘hosting’ and the ‘self’ part should be self explanatory because it would be madness to have someone else host it for you!

    remote-hosting still has some uses in some cases of course :)

    • HybridSarcasm@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      In the context of this community and the movement in general, ‘self-hosting’ is designed to contrast against the larger trend of “let me just trust one of the big cloud companies with all my stuff”. We’ve seen how that can go very, very wrong. So, the idea of maintaining control of your data and the methods by which it is accessed is the heart of ‘self-hosting’. It’s not meant to restrict one to only computers stored in one’s home.

    • MudMan@fedia.io
      4·
      14 hours ago

      Yeeeeah, I have less of a problem for that, because… well yeah, people host stuff for you all the time, right? Any time you’re a client the host is someone else. Self-hosting makes some sense for services where you’re both the host and the client.

      Technically you’re not self hosting anything for your family in that case, you’re just… hosting it, but I can live with it.

      I do think this would all go down easier if we had a nice marketable name for it. I don’t know, power-internetting, or “the information superdriveway”. This was all easier in the 90s, I guess is what I’m accidentally saying.