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Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 6 months ago by SuperFola to c/[email protected]

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I currently have a server, a Dell T310 with an SSD in it and 12Gig of ram (weird config, I know I messed up but it works fine so I can’t be bothered to change that for now), with all my dockers running in it.

It runs mostly fine, with Debian 11, a VPN so that I can block public ssh and allow it only on the VPN network, an nginx proxy to have services like a forgejo and a music library (ampache).

However it can’t run a Minecraft server with more than a single person on it without stuttering ; so I was considering changing it maybe next year, after more than 3 years of services, for something beefier but also consuming less W/h (current consumption is 80W), and since I already have a Mac for work I was wondering how suitable a Mac Mini M1/M2 would be for a homelab?

Does anyone have such a configuration and how does it work for you? Any hurdle that you should be aware of?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I didn’t pay a premium, I got a great deal.

The reverse engineering work was already complete, and all the containers I needed for ARM were available.

These have great performance per watt.

[–] onlinepersona -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's great if it's your experience.

I'm just saying me and others have consistently had different experiences, and OP can get a better experience at half the price, with the same (or better) energy consumption, all while supporting the Linux ecosystem directly.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’ve donated to marcan to work on Asahi Linux, which gets upstreamed. That’s direct.

What has better performance per watt than M1 at a better price?

[–] onlinepersona 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/power_performance.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Other efficiency benchmarks place Apple Silicon and AMD chips ahead of Intel chips:

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_benchmark-cpu_performance_per_watt