this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
10 points (81.2% liked)

Selfhosted

40379 readers
543 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Not something that would have to be on all the time, but more something that can be off overnight. This question feels like it has an obvious yes/no answer that I'm missing.

Edit: pihole was a bad example

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@backhdlp @selfhosted What is going to depend on the thing you're hosting? If you are browsing the web on your main computer, through an ad-blocking proxy on your main computer, obviously it is fine for the proxy to go away when your main computer is off. But if you want to browse the web on your phone through that proxy when your computer is off, it won't work. If you want your phone to stop using the proxy when your computer is off, that's going to end up being a pile of duct tape.

as the name implies pihole is often installed on a Raspberry Pi which is left runnign 24/7. You may consider getting one, even an older model. It's a perfectly cromulent computer. Note: There are also non-Raspberry Pi's which might be cheaper - the generic term is "single-board computer" or SBC.