I got started self-hosting using a small Lenovo Thinkcentre and an HP EliteDesk. Both are available to purchase for around 100 dollars on ebay. I have installed Proxmox on both of them. Proxmox is an operating system built on Debian Linux and is used to host containers and virtual machines. It has a great WebGUI to access the server.

Using Proxmox I have set up a Pelican container for game servers hosting, I run my own personal wiki, I have PiHole, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf and a lot more.

To access your things out of home you can use a VPN to connect to your own network or open ports in your router. I only had to open port 80 and 443 to expose my reverse proxy to the internet and then I use the reverse proxy to route the traffic internally to the correct port and project. I also purchases a domain name and now I can use jellyfin.mydomain.com or wiki.mydomain.com or whatever.mydomain.com to access each project I self-host. It’s very convenient!

Trying new projects is super easy and if you want to remove something then just delete the container. No old leftovers will stay on the host system. There are also community scripts available to make hosting even easier. It will install and configure the containers for you.

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

This is great! Thank you for sharing

Haha it’s harder to tell in writing but I can miss jokes like that sometimes in real life too. But usually I get jokes and joke a lot myself. I don’t have any diagnosis but I suspect I might have ADD. I haven’t gotten around to check but I know for sure something is not right with me.

Have you never interacted with a person on the autism spectrum?

Edit: Is this a joke that went over my head?

I am glad I don’t need to drive in Gothenburg as well then 😂 I agree that quite a few people here don’t know how to drive properly but compared to what I persons have experienced in other countries I would say that we are good drivers in general in Sweden.

Why are you saying that the signs are bad? The signs above the road are pretty clear. Each arrow above the lane points to its destination. I can’t say much about the situation around Stockholm but personally I have never had any issues following directions on the highway.

They also mention it on the wiki page but I could see fractals and different patterns when I closed my eyes while on shrooms.

I have had discussions with this person before and it’s not worth it haha. It doesn’t matter that this person will spend arguably more time swapping AA batteries over the years than the time spent replacing the built in batter one or two times during its lifetime.

LLAMA if I recall correctly was closed source until the source code was leaked online. After that Meta decided to just open source it.

I am at least getting two controllers but the steam frame and the steam machine looks super cool too!

It could also be a reference to the fact that Steam Deck can now install and download games while put in sleep mode. It’s in the latest Preview and Beta release of SteamOS.

The dot com bubble 2.0 is on the horizon

I really liked the Custom Maps in Warcraft 3 online play. I used to play Hero Line Wars, Mauls and TDs, Dota, Legion TD among other amazing community made maps

It depends on the project/container. Some containers run Debian, some Alpine, some Ubuntu. I mostly rely on the community scripts from here and use the defaults.

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

I guess everything that supports containers, QEMU and KVM is compatible to use as a guest OS in Proxmox.

Yes, as I said it’s a debian base. But Proxmox is built for servers and using it to host and share containers or virtual machines is super simple. Especially with the community helper scripts that can set up different self-hosting projects within minutes with minimal tinkering.

Personally I would recommend Proxmox. It’s a debian based distro for hosting containers and virtual machines

Whatever. You’re not worth my time anymore. Keep getting scammed by cloud hosting if you want to. I will keep using my home server and spread the word about how easy it is to host a home server and how much of a scam a VPS is.

When the majority of people talk about self-hosting they specifically talk about hosting a service on your own hardware. Not a rent on someone else’s computer…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(web_services)

https://www.openproject.org/blog/why-self-hosting-software/

Even Lenovo knows this shit…

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/self-hosting/

Sure, you could say that since you put the service on the VPS. But you don’t own the server and host it on your own hardware. Which is what the person you replied to was talking about. Why would you even point out that hosting a service requires special knowledge if you find hosting in a VPS and at home equal?

Once could say it requires special knowledge to host a service in the cloud too. The extra step I had to take was to open port 80 and 433 on my server and install nginx to forward the traffic to the right container on my local network since I only have one public IP. It took me minimal research to figure it out.