Privacy

31772 readers

636 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What is the cheapest way to host my own server? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

26 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'm wanting to run my own SimpleX chat server and set up a Monero node as well.

Can this be done on the same machine? I was considering getting a mini PC to do this so it wouldn't be too much of an issue with it being always on.

Or should I take a different approach and set up both separately on two different machines like a raspberry pi or something?

As I'm sure you can tell I don't have a lot of experience with self hosting anything but want to get into it to help strengthen the networks of these communities I care about.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would recommend buying an ugly corporate desktop PC on EBay or similar. When companies do mass layoffs, or move offices, they often deem it cheaper to just sell off everyone's workstation wiped on EBay or whatever. You can get a SOLID Intel workhorse of some sort for probably literally less than a Pi. Yes, it will use more power, but like, you're planning to run multiple services on this and a desktop PC is often surprisingly upgradeable, even with shitty office towers, because the high end and low end model use the same motherboard, so you have plenty of room to upgrade non-processor components. You can probably find a great no OS included box for like $200 tops shipping included, if not half that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is how I got started. I found a decent refurbed Optiplex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yep, I've got a stack of 5-10 year old optiplexes (optiplexi?) running proxmox.