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Worth trying using a 15 years old notebook for self hosting? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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I found an old notebook PC lying around and I'm wondering if it could be enough to run a few services like the arr suite, qbittorrent and pi-hole.

Here's a few specs: Cpu : Intel Celeron 1011 1.6ghz Ram : 1Gig Ethernet port

If you think it's not a total waste of time, what distro would you install?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I tried with a Celeron 1 GHz. It was slower than a rpi and it sucked 65 watts at idle 🙈

But at least can give some experience, I prefer playing the sysadmin with real hardware than a VM

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's good to know ha ha! At least I can have some fun before investing further...

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

It is 100% a great idea to see how you feel about the concept of self-hosting with an old machine. If it’s really old (and I’m talking like anything from before about 2008-2010), perhaps consider snagging an old “tiny”/1L-class box from eBay for cheap. Dell, HP, and Lenovo units can be found for WAY under $100 all the time, and slightly more modern units can still be had at a reasonable price, depending on the model. They’re great platforms to play around with. Just shove a cheap SSD in there and play with it.

Source: an old m920q with an i5-8500T is running pfSense for my home network

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

Thanks. I might simply go for the raspberry pi solution as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

65 w at idle? Hahahah, holy smokes!

I have a PII laptop from 1998 sitting around, still runs, don't have the heart to pitch it. But now you've got me thinking... That's a lot of juice.

Maybe it would be a neat experiment in using it via Wake-on-LAN from something else. But if it can wake from something else, that something else likely has more oomph anyway!