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would it make sense to host something on my main machine? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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

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

I’ve got 2 pihole instances in my home, one on my Unraid server in a Debian VM as a backup in case the main one goes down.

The main one is running from a cheap Igel M340c thin client I bought off eBay for around £20 ($25) running Ubuntu Server.

Cheaper than a Raspberry Pi at the moment and perfect for running a Pihole on.

If you want something cheap, consider a used thin client machine.