Why does everyone use services like Linode instead of building a pc? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by fart_huffer-@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I was installing Nextcloud and following a YouTube guide and the guy sets up his instance on linode. I just cannot wrap my head around this. Why would anyone pay that kind of money for such weak hardware? He’s paying $20 a month to self host his own cloud and only gets 2 CPUs, 4GB ram and 80GB storage! That’s totally bonkers to me! Does he also pay $50 for a slice of bread? And for what? To host his own cloud? iCloud 200GB is $10 a month lmao. So please, someone explain this to me Barney style why people are doing this instead of building their own. The only advantage is that is is probably far more reliable than hosting your own at home. Or maybe I am completely missing something or maybe I have a fundamental failure in my understanding

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[-] fart_huffer-@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Can you explain to me how you figure out your energy consumption?

[-] user3872465@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I monitor/log it with a smart plug, or UPS.

At my home I have a shelly plug s Which is just a wallplug insert. That monitors consumption and can give it to you via MQTT, I port it to home assistant and monitor it. Usually my small HP mini node with a couple switches and Router is about 80w.

At my parrents I have a Shelly 1PM Plus, which is integrated in the path to the UPS. It monitores everything like the PoE Switch APs, Server etc as everything is connected to it thats IT. Its about 4.5kwh/day so about 220-240W. That gets also monitored via Home Assistant and MQTT. and 4.5khw/d are bout 2.5USD/day for me. So about 920USD/Year.

So Defo more expensive than a VPS would be. But also more custom and more of an Experience to gather.

this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023

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