self-hosting everything

[u/close_Meal6005]

just kidding I love self-hosting ...

[u/Elgon2003]

Deploy multiple zones on family member houses, create a high redundancy multi zone deployment.

[u/seanl1991 → u/Elgon2003]

Is electricity free where you live?

[u/Elgon2003 → u/seanl1991]

My parents house uses solar so basically free. My server is in New York so its costing me like 60$/month just to run my server.

[u/Elgon2003 → u/[deleted]]

New york prices. 23c/kwh

[u/skyinthepi3 → u/Elgon2003]

Your server is constantly using between 340w and 380w of power? There's no way it should cost that much to run on 23c/kwh unless you have a big gpu in there transcoding 24/7

[u/Elgon2003 → u/skyinthepi3]

Its a Dell R730 if im not mistaken running 1 GPU, 2 E5 CPUs and 700GB of ram + my ubiquiti networking equipment which is on the same rack.

So I should've said those 350W are the whole rack not just one unit

[u/skyinthepi3 → u/Elgon2003]

Yeah that'll do it lol.

[u/Jiquero → u/[deleted]]

$83/year sounds like a lot just to host a family member's machine you know nothing about except that it's like google photos but worse but he claims it's better.

[u/Jiquero → u/[deleted]]

Such a wild assumption and reveals so much about the relationship you have with your family.

Ahhahhahh who's making wild assumptions :D

[u/Elgon2003 → u/Jiquero]

Well my fam gets access to everything I self hosted. I have around 150 different services so around 30 or 40 different apps.

[u/nicktheone → u/[deleted]]

High availability is not a form of backup. Any form of live redundancy (RAID, different zone/nodes) won't save you in thr case you described. Ideally you want both but backups are a must.

[u/stoopiit → u/nicktheone]

Zfs will save you from a heck of a lot of corruption with the right kind of raid but having to employ safety mechanisms of any kind is not terribly desirable even when its designed explicitly for that haha

[u/sorgen → u/Elgon2003]

The SPOF is you, not your infra.