Post #1871920 · Elektrine

@wltr@discuss.tchncs.de

2026-04-26 10:25 UTC

More likely your system is more sophisticated, I have just joined the hobby, so to say. But I am sure you can go much cheaper than that with bare metal. If I’d really need to host something, I’d rather buy a real server, and invest in solar power instead of paying some rent. Was a happy Digital Ocean customer, before I realised I can do the same with a Raspberry Pi. I was buying a couple of Pis a year for them. Right now, de-facto one Pi can host everything I really need. I regret I wasted about half a thousand on nothing. Could have bought a great NUC instead of wasting money on the cheapest VM for years.

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@Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 10:39

Yeah solar power is much more affordable these days. I live in a vehicle so I have a 500w panel on the roof charging a 200ah lithium battery. I only use a laptop and steam deck, but could easily upscale. The whole system, including the victron controllers & shunt and the 2k inverter came out around £700, but I'm pretty sure stuff has only got cheaper since I bought it. I have way more power than I need in summer, though there are maybe two months in winter when I have to charge everything in daylight. I could always add a small wind generator if I needed. Renewables are totally feasible these days

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@Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2026-04-27 00:18

Oh no, I host everything myself, I would never use a cloud-based anything. A pi does a lot, but it wouldn't do for all my stuff. Jellyfin, AgentDVR, PaperlessNGX and especially LLamaCPP do need a lot of ressources :)

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