I self host on an NAS at home with a free Cloudfront CDN on top; it's really easy to do and for simple websites (including dynamic ones backed by an sqlite db) that don't receive excessive traffic, it works well and is almost free (since the NAS would be on in any case).
Of course it wouldn't work for all cases but I find it beats having a vps somewhere that can be taken down for no reason at all.
This is like saying "I got kicked off a plane so I bought a Civic and bolted a wing on the back". Cloud front is doing all the heavy lifting and you're not really getting data center level reliability.
bambax|1 year ago
Of course it wouldn't work for all cases but I find it beats having a vps somewhere that can be taken down for no reason at all.
bdndndndbve|1 year ago
unixhero|1 year ago
Hardware: 4x Old decommed 19" dells on Ebay with plenty of DDR4 memory, HP Proliant G10+ are also good
Ups Eaton Pro
Gigabit Fiber Internet, which is more than enough. 10-50mbit can suffice for compute nodes too.
Bought ssds and m2 storage plus some spinning ols rust drives
Temp and humidity monitoring
Google Nest Protect smoke detector
TP link 16amp smart plugs on all, to have a control plane to turn it all off remotely
Workloads:
Most are LXC
Some Docker
KVM virtual machines
Zero trust: Some Cloudflare
Tailscale
Proxmox backup server to back it all up, lots of retention
Monitoring:
Deployed remote uptime monitoring on fly.io
Read and experiment a lot Hang out on /r/homelab /r/homedatacenter and /r/selfhosted for learning, community and inspiration
unixhero|1 year ago