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are you self-hosting services in your home? if so, describe your setup.

539 sats \ 23 comments \ @nodecitizen 27 Jan 2023 bitcoin

i'm currently running a small data center in my home, running two bitcoin nodes, plex server, dns sinkhole, torrent server, and a litany of development related services on several dell poweredge R710s and 8x raspberry pis.

i'm currently sitting at about half of a terrabyte of ram and over 96 physical cpu cores in the entire rack and 60+ TB of storage

what kind of setup are you running? what are you hosting?

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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wumbo 27 Jan 2023

I have found internet options to be the limiting factor for self hosting.

Do you use a router that supports multiple WAN inputs?

Will the router auto switch if a ISP connection goes down?

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @ursuscamp 27 Jan 2023

Good gravy, what is your electricity bill?

I have a laptop running Ubuntu Server. It operates as a Core node with electrs and a media server with Jellyfin and Transmission daemon.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nodecitizen OP 28 Jan 2023

i think i pay something in the realm of $175/mo. it's really not terrible

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @PlebeiusG 27 Jan 2023

I have a raspberry pi. It’s always slow and sometimes just doesn’t work well.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ssats 28 Jan 2023

Which one?

20 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 27 Jan 2023

Your setup sounds incredible. I self-host my node on a raspi - that's it.

91 sats \ 0 replies \ @nodecitizen OP 3 Feb 2023

thanks! it took a while to get here, but it's got phenomenal horsepower. the poweredges are a lot cheaper than you might think. ~$250 USD each and they're incredibly cheap to upgrade and max out on ram

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @satcat 27 Jan 2023

Do you need a static IP to self-host LN node for the site?

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 27 Jan 2023

Oh I was talking about my personal node.

Originally SN's node was only available over Tor, but then Tor started getting DoS'd so we started using clearnet. SN's node is in the cloud.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @satoshe 28 Jan 2023

A refurbished thinkpad x1 with 1TB hosting umbrel

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @benthecarman 27 Jan 2023

I have a laptop under my bed that runs my lightning node and opreturnbot.com

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nikotsla 28 Jan 2023

Mostly fanless pc, the noise is a big NO in my setup, BTC and LN node running.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BITCOIN_CEO 28 Jan 2023

Do you have some sort of firewall setup as well?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nodecitizen OP 28 Jan 2023

oh absolutely. without disclosing too much about it, im running multiple honeypots on my network and active intrusion prevention

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @thebtctoto 28 Jan 2023

1 tb mini thinkcentre with 8 gig ram on embassy OS

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @nodecitizen OP 28 Jan 2023

i've thought about picking one of those up. refurbished mac minis running linux are really affordable and powerful. like, sub $200

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @thebtctoto 28 Jan 2023

ya i was astonished to see how cheap refurbished, pretty powerful machines are right now. Not like it was the last time I bought a computer (10 years ago).

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Majjin 27 Jan 2023

I bought a used dell computer off ebay and added a couple drives to it. Using docker to run my services.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @satdeck 27 Jan 2023

I am mainly running a few docker images on various older hardware.
nextcloud jellyfin home-assistant.

I am wanting to get a DNS and monitoring solution put in. that is coming in the future.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @nodecitizen OP 28 Jan 2023

i've been really interested in jellyfin in favor of plex. thoughts?

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @thebtctoto 28 Jan 2023

me too, just listened to a pod where they talked about jellyfin, need to learn more :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @satdeck 30 Jan 2023

Unfortunately never tried Plex but a buddy of mine liked the modular effect of Jellyfin compared to Plex. Plus I just use it for one thing viewing shows. So it has worked great for me in that regards.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire 27 Jan 2023

1x start9 embassy pro with a ton of stuff enabled 1x custom hardware LN public routing node exposed over tunnelsats 1x mac mini I got for free that I use for random backup stuff and a media server 2x S9s, although those are probably not services