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0 pointstornato73y ago0 comments

I have recently ventured into home-hosting some non-critical services and it's awesome. I can get 5Gbps residential internet and a dedicated IP through AT&T fiber, I have Solar+PowerWall for uninterrupted power... Once I got through the first few weeks of Network manager and router problems, I've had zero downtime the past 6 months. Since our workloads are very SSD and bandwidth-heavy, both of which are absurdly expensive on public clouds, we hit breakeven to our cloud services in less than two months.

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justinclift3y ago· 2 in thread

Yeah, it's good when your internet connection is really reliable.

As a counterpoint to this, at my last house in Melbourne (Australia) I was thinking of doing the same. We have a "National Broadband Network" (NBN) deployed that most residential customers in the country are hooked into.

Shortly after moving into the house, the NBN needed to upgrade the network in the area. So, multi-hour outage. Then the same thing happened about 2 months later.

Thus, any idea of self hosting from my house was dropped and we've kept on using Hetzner. ;)

croutonwagon3y ago

I use a vps for some things (my blog thst no one reads, or my teamspeak server for me a couple buds to use) but I still self host my plex, miniflux etc from home.

It works well enough.

justinclift3y ago

Yeah, for those purposes it'd be fine. I was more looking to run stuff which is fairly actively used (~1/2 million inbound connections per month) though doesn't need high bandwidth. For that, multi-hour outages isn't going to work. :/

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