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Self-hosting is the practice of running and maintaining software services on hardware you control — home servers, NAS appliances, and container stacks — instead of relying on managed cloud services.

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I am trying to conceptually determine if prices will ever decrease again for anything in self hosting

Self-hosting is the practice of running and maintaining software services on hardware you control — home servers, NAS appliances, and container stacks — instead of relying on managed cloud services.

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Old laptops are the home server upgrade nobody talks about, and they beat a Pi every time

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  • What do you keep on your self-hosted wiki? r/selfhosted
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Old laptops are the home server upgrade nobody talks about, and they beat a Pi every time

Repurposing an old laptop for self-hosting can save you money and provide a more powerful platform than a Raspberry Pi.

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I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab

Since the PiKVM came out in 2017, there's been an explosion of IP KVMs. I've tested almost every one. But what are they good for? You can use Remote Desktop, Screen Sharing, or VNC to remote control a

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Hacker News · u/stenit · 

RemotePower – self-hosted remote power management

RemotePower – self-hosted remote power management

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r/homelab · u/Big-Grapefruit8092 · 

Why does everybody have a rack with Enterprise grade servers?

Personally, i only have a "Server" (aka old pcs) from my school. Actually it was two but I put the memory of both into one, since running both at once would have increased power consumtion. I installed a old graphics car…
Hacker News · u/vquemener · 

I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab

I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab

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Hacker News · u/ansocode · 

Show HN: Sencho – a self hosted Docker Compose UI with multi-node fleet support

Hey HN I’ve been managing docker compose apps on multiple remote servers over the years and I got tired of using multiple tools for simple tasks.I wasn’t happy with the current available options so I built Sencho. It’s a…

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r/homelab · u/Napster3301 · 

half this sub runs pihole and jellyfin on 600w of enterprise gear and calls it a homelab

ok genuine love for everyone here but lets be honest for a sec. the number of people who buy a 40u rack, two r730s and a populated disk shelf to run pihole, jellyfin for an audience of one, and a minecraft server nobody …
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