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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I currently bought an old desktop from a friend that I use as my Homeserver.

  • I bought 3 HDDs for storage
  • I rent a VPS
  • I rented Proton to host mail for my domain, but switched to netcup groupware because that sucked.
  • Some domains
  • Electricity

Wow I thought it was way more.

One time costs: ~500โ‚ฌ Monthly costs: ~15โ‚ฌ Plus electricity, but I have solar. I assume it's about 150โ‚ฌ/year

But I'm a cheap selfhosted, but eventually, I will have a huge ass Enterprise Level Rack in my basement.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We need a r/homeDatacenter on lemmy!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure Iโ€™ve seen a few home lab communities already, one on lemmy.world even

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Already aware of some of those! They are really cool.
But homelab aint datacenter (yet) ;)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Would be cool if we found some kind of use for the community of people that likes to host network infrastructure. We could be a cdn or share compute, with the power of the federation!