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Tips for energy efficient self-hosting
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I guess it depends on your definition of "self hosting" but I'm in the process of migrating a lot of my services to a remote vps on vultr. It doesn't make much sense to have a big, hot server running at home that needs capacity to cope with peaks but isn't used 99% of the time.
Sharing server resources with other virtual servers is the most significant least pain to benefit ratio action I can think of.
All that will really be left at home is a torrent client and gerbera (upnp) instance which can happily run on a NUC with an nvme. gerbera won't do any transcoding so the load is negligible.
Hosting your own services. Preferably at home and on low-power or shared hardware.
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