Doing something scrappy with an old laptop is cool. Hey, built in UPS if the battery still works!
Doing something powerful and reliable with server class hardware is also very cool.
If it is meeting your needs, I'm happy for you.
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Doing something scrappy with an old laptop is cool. Hey, built in UPS if the battery still works!
Doing something powerful and reliable with server class hardware is also very cool.
If it is meeting your needs, I'm happy for you.
Who says it's overkill?
That said I literally started selfhosting on a Thinkpad W520. With the full 32 gigs of ram it ran ESXI great. Plus you can't beat a built in UPS.
I was going to buy a mini PC to run along with it when I needed more, but I just opted to take old desktop parts and combine my NAS with everything else.
Just because you can afford to lose your weird niche fetish porn doesn't mean I can afford to lose my calendar and contacts
Less power is more power!
People who are proud of their gear post it.
You seldom hear from the folks running a half dozen VMs on a laptop.
You seldom hear from the folks running a half dozen VMs on a laptop.
That's probably me. Blame it to working with automation systems that span from the early 90s to present day.
We use containers now btw
My home lab is my windows gaming PC running containers on a Ubuntu VM as a guest os in Hyper-V.
We are all over the shop.