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Interested in setting up an instance with a spare laptop (self.selfhosted)

submitted 2 years ago by BackOnMyBS to c/selfhosted

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I have a spare laptop running Linux Mint. I would like to try running my own instance and sharing it with a few users to help out and for the experience. Below are the specs. Do you think it will be powerful enough, and if so, how many users would it be able to handle? I could restrict uploading of media if that would make a considerable impact.

Dell Inspiron 15-5000 CPU: Intel Core i5-5200U, 2 cores, 4 threads RAM: 8GB Storage: SanDisk SSD Plus 1TB

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[–] bitrate 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Any concerns you that you may attract attention to your network? I'm interested in doing the same thing you are.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've got all my home services routed through ZeroTier to Nginx Proxy Manager on a cloud VM, so my home IP is pretty well hidden. As long as nobody is uploading illegal content to your instance you should be fine though.

[–] bitrate 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Dope, I'll look into that as well. I think im going to start with cloudflare tunnels. I've heard of it, but never used it. I think this may be my first appropriate use case.

[–] mattchu_c 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You could also get a second static IP address from your ISP to keep it separate from your home network.

[–] foxtrot 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is it possible to run an instance without a static IP address?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, you can use the Cloudflare proxy and update your dynamic IP with ddclient: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/manage-dns-records/how-to/managing-dynamic-ip-addresses

[–] mattchu_c 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing this!

[–] mattchu_c 2 points 2 years ago

From a local device in your home, no, not that I know of. It might be possible with some wild proxy and port forward setup, but that's a little above my head tbh.