All day long. I ssh into mine & run docker. Works surprisingly well. Better than the $5/month droplet.
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when I first explored the world of kubernetes my nodes consisted of discarded laptops I've dubbed "half-tops," or truly "headless" servers. it was a beautiful abomination.
I used to but the fan eventually broke. It works if I flip it upsidedown so the vents face upwards but the CPU is still hitting 90 degrees idle 💀
Nope. I’m using a Dell Optiplex 990 that my uncle no longer wanted.
Many years ago I used old desktop PCs. But nowadays VPS have become so cheap that it's just not worth the hastle, in my opinion.
Ongoing they still seem to cost more than a slightly more powerful system would in a year.
Yup, I have an old broken laptop that runs Ubuntu Server and doesn't have a physical screen. I named it The Headless Machine (ha!)
As a test machine, yes. As a production machine... Meh.
Little memory, slow and small disk...
RAM and disk space are the cheapest and easiest things to upgrade.
Even my 10 year old laptops can have ssd. Depending on the laptop and budget could be a better fit for a lot of people.
I used my wife's old laptop (a slow N3540) for samba, pihole, and qbittorrent server for a couple of years until recently I replaced with a used HP PC.
Naaaaah... I haven't blown up my pc after it did its service.... Naaaaaaaaah...
when I first explored the world of kubernetes my nodes consisted of discarded laptops I've dubbed "half-tops," or truly "headless" servers. it was a beautiful abomination.
Thinkpad T430, i7 gen 1,16gb home server
I actually used to host a pretty sizable minecraft server on a laptop.
Actually worked pretty well, was able to support around 150 or so concurrent users, and this was back in the bukkit days.
End of life Chromebooks, baby!
I have 2 Chromebooks I want to do something with, but they’re double core machines with 16g Emmc. Not really juicy enough for a good server.
Kinda depends. I have one that makes an excellent Plex server with an external USB drive for the media. It's ancient, got it for nothing from an school that was going to throw it out, it's got Intel QuickSync so it transcodes media in hardware. I even got the 2TB USB drive for nothing, friend didn't need it any more and was going to throw it out, now it serves him media with the Plex server I built. Did the same with another Chromebook for Pi Hole. Now thinking about a slightly beefier one for Home Assistant. Might set up a Lemmy instance on another one, just for the fuck of it.
Yes I did, but nowadays I have nothing to host things on. Alpine Linux is excellent to host Minecraft servers and the like.
Omg that’s a great idea I have an 8 thread 4 core from 2012 that was my main laptop 3 years ago.
I have an 8 core i7 Alienware 17r3 with 32GB RAM I use to host a pen-test lab. It's outdated and only runs Win10, but with Xubuntu 20.04 and VirtualBox, it makes a nice little vm server I can power up and down with plenty of resources.
this is the way
I think I'm going to have to buy a wattage meter plug-in to see what my laptops run at with nothing running, a single Docker image of nginx, and then an API image on top of that. I wonder what my RaspberryPi 4 is pulling with my docker images running on there.
Might be worth buying a smart switch with energy monitoring.
Alec's latest model sells for about $30AU and can function as a power meter, temperature logger, smart switch and thermostat.
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I use an old pc i got from some dude, for 100 bucks
thrown in a few hard drives etc for some storage.
Yes! My old framework laptop motherboard runs all my home services without issue. Just the right amount of power for my use case and it sips power.