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?
Your setup sounds incredible. I self-host my node on a raspi - that's it.
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
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Do you need a static IP to self-host LN node for the site?
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.
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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?
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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.
i think i pay something in the realm of $175/mo. it's really not terrible
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I have a raspberry pi. It’s always slow and sometimes just doesn’t work well.
Which one?
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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.
i've been really interested in jellyfin in favor of plex. thoughts?
me too, just listened to a pod where they talked about jellyfin, need to learn more :)
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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.
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1 tb mini thinkcentre with 8 gig ram on embassy OS
i've thought about picking one of those up. refurbished mac minis running linux are really affordable and powerful. like, sub $200
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).
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A refurbished thinkpad x1 with 1TB hosting umbrel
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I have a laptop under my bed that runs my lightning node and opreturnbot.com
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Mostly fanless pc, the noise is a big NO in my setup, BTC and LN node running.
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Do you have some sort of firewall setup as well?
oh absolutely. without disclosing too much about it, im running multiple honeypots on my network and active intrusion prevention
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I bought a used dell computer off ebay and added a couple drives to it. Using docker to run my services.
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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
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