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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anyone else using Mac minis as VM hosts for self hosting? My Friendica server is a Linux VM on a Mac Mini in my living room. The VM is bound to a VLAN tagged network interface so it’s completely firewalled off from the rest of my network. Also got a second Linux VM on the same box for hosting local stuff on my main VLAN (HomeBridge/etc).

I feel like they’re really nice platforms for this, if not the cheapest. Cheaper than one might think though; I specced up an equivalent NUC and there wasn’t a lot of difference in price, and the M2 is really fast.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@Skunk Nice. I’m happy with the M2 running MacOS and just spinning up Linux VMs in UTM as needed. It seems to handle them without breaking a sweat and, for self hosted stuff, having the VM bridged to a VLAN tagged interface gives me that extra reassurance without having to have the whole machine on that interface.

If the baddies compromise the Friendica server, I can just Remote Desktop into the Mac and nuke the VM. Bye bye.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yup it's probably what I'll end up doing if I can't find my refurbished M1 (and I already own an M2 mostly used to fly long hauls flights on Xplane 12).

But I'll wait till they launch the mini M3 to see what becomes available on the second hand market, then simply VM until Asahi Linux is mature enough.