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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 firew (thegoatery.dyndns.org)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted
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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] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

AM4 can do 128 GB with 4 32 GB sticks.

Other than that I agree with your post. No way you get more for your money as soon as you start going beyond the base configuration which is still 8 GB RAM /256 GB SSD in 2023/24 by the way.

Sure, it's a compact and very power efficient device and having 10 GbE built-in for a reasonable price uplift (decent PCIe 10 GbE cards aren't much cheaper) is great. But to be honest an Intel NUC or even desktop parts with low-end motherboards aren't exactly power suckers when mostly idle.

And then SSD storage and RAM pricing is like a quarter compared to what Apple charges for it, if even that. And you have the choice of going for ECC RAM on supported platforms, which is great for a file server for example.

OS compatibility is a big one as well, you can basically choose between macOS and Asahi Linux and while the latter is probably okay for self-hosting purposes, I prefer more stable and long-supported distros like Debian.

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

Sure but I meant small form factor stuff, which I haven't seen any board with more than two slots and thus 64 GB cap.

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

Fair enough!