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  • Are you just starting out? I got started with home labbing with a Raspberry Pi 2B (1GB RAM!) and an external HDD I had lying around. I host Yarr, Navidrome, backups and a dashboard app Ive written on there and I am quite satisfied. I would really recommend starting small with hardware you already have and then buy new hardware as you go along. I am also using Tailscale. With this you can get your initial setup up and running in a day and save money if it turns out home labbing isnt for you or you dont really need the hardware.







  • julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.detoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldCost-cutting tips?
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    9 months ago
    • Use sqlite instead of Postgres, MariaDB
    • Avoid enterprise software (Kubernetes, Elastic Search)
    • Only use projects with efficient programming languages such as Go, Rust, etc.
    • Try to run things bare metal
    • Lookout for projects which name themself minimal or light-weight

    I use a Raspberry Pi 2 to self host a Dashboard written in Rust (Axum), a RSS reader called yarr and a music streaming server Navidrome. The latter two are written in Go and very resource efficient. The electricity bill should be under a Euro a month (6.4W max power consumption).


  • I‘ve recently started using Tailscale for my home setup and I really can‘t recommend it enough. In my opinion it takes a lot of the dangers regarding IT security out of self hosting. Depending on who you ask it is not true self hosting, but I couldn’t care less :)

    With Tailscale you can create a VPN for your devices including your phone and even expose services to the outside world with SSL already setup (havent tried that out, yet)

    They have guides/tutorials for a lot of stuff (web server, Minecraft).