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0 pointskillingtime744y ago0 comments

Only if power is free

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and bandwidth. and physical space, and the ability to stay isolated from physical conditions like floods (natural or plumbing-related) or power outages caused by somebody trying to plug in a kettle.

running a commercial VPS in a datacenter has a ton of advantages, but i'm guessing that the guy with a footer like this doesn't really care about them. running your website off a raspi in your living room is cool, wheher it's the most practical solution or not doesn't really matter.

lvturner4y ago

I almost hate myself for writing this - but any given AWS AZ has had more outages/ performance degradations/service interuptions over the past ~5years than my home internet/electricity... and with an unmetered connection with a 200mbps+ uplink, how much more do I really need for a personal page?

Maybe a raspberry pi behind my sofa isn't so stupid?

Of course you could use multi-cloud/multi-azs, but do you really WANT to for a personal website?

notatoad4y ago

Maybe I'm just unlucky, but I live in a Canadian city with pretty stable internet and since I moved 6mo ago (we won't count moving-related downtime) I've had at least a 1hr power outage and 3hrs of internet-related downtime.

I can't remember the last time my little nano server in US-West-2 has been down.

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notatoad4y ago

and bandwidth. and physical space, and the ability to stay isolated from physical conditions like floods (natural or plumbing-related) or power outages caused by somebody trying to plug in a kettle.

lvturner4y ago

Maybe a raspberry pi behind my sofa isn't so stupid?

Of course you could use multi-cloud/multi-azs, but do you really WANT to for a personal website?

notatoad4y ago

I can't remember the last time my little nano server in US-West-2 has been down.

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