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Interested in setting up an instance with a spare laptop (self.selfhosted)
submitted 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing this!

[–] mattchu_c 2 points 1 year 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.