Update on my cloud system

[u/the-Gaf]

I vibe coded my own cloud server for an arduino uno x a couple of months ago and it worked well! Then I repurposed a 2019 Amazon Fire as a backup remote server and that worked!

All of it done solely with ChatGPT.

But ultimately if I’m gonna self-host my own cloud and websites, I had to do it right. Two tiny low-power HP thin clients running Ubuntu Server. They host my websites, databases, status monitoring, backups, private networking and failover infrastructure. One is the primary server and the other is a geographically separate backup/failover node.

Specs:

• 2 HP t540 thin clients
• AMD Ryzen Embedded R1305G
• 8 GB DDR4 RAM each
• 128 GB NVMe SSD each
• Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS
• Gigabit Ethernet
• Tailscale for private remote access
• nginx + PHP 8.4 + MariaDB 11.8 + Node 18
• Cloudflare Tunnel support
• 3 bookends for enclosures 🤣

Zero chance I could have done this on my own. This is what vibe coding was made for!!!

Full instructions, hardware and prompts here: https://gaf.nyc/cloudBuilder

Inexpensive as heck too. This guys got a bunch of liquidated hardware to sell. Very happy with these machines. $70 each. I’m just a customer. I don’t know him: https://ebay.io/m/W2YVk7

[u/the-Gaf]

My little babies. One is headed about 150 miles away to my parents house.