cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cloudhub.social/post/2392

Figured we’d start this community off with a question about what you’re running in your homelab!

This could be anything from hardware to software to things your running in the cloud (#cloudlab).

Hardware and diagram pics are always welcome!

  • @[email protected]
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    211 months ago

    Joe’s datacenter & hetzner server auctions are good deals if you’ve got bad internet and want to run your own multiple smaller VMs! Depending on latency in the case of hetzner.

    But yeah, hosting at home is always great. I did it for years, but electricity prices began creeping up and I got tired of the maintenance

    • @jaxOPA
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      211 months ago

      Yeah, that’s true, they do have pretty good prices. I like DO though because it’s where I started and they have a DC not too far from me, so latency is very low.

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        211 months ago

        It’s also nice to pay for not having to deal with the hardware, and to also have the hidden costs go away (ie, electricity)

        • @jaxOPA
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          211 months ago

          That’s true! Those do add up over time.

          I’d love to go full cloud-native with a kubernetes cluster, but I can’t justify the $100+ a month for a reasonable cluster :(

          • @[email protected]
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            211 months ago

            That’s my disappointment as well! I’ve done k3s on a droplet, and it was nice, but I’d like to handover the control plane to a cloud provider when I’m experimenting without burning my wallet.

            • @jaxOPA
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              311 months ago

              For sure, then you just have to worry about deploying apps. Seems a lot easier for testing.