I’m trying to selfhost some Lemmy communities just for fun :)

Buddhist, researcher, FOSS, Linux, selfhosting enthusiast, plantbased, anarchism and MLM interested.

Trying to be nice. I really dislike the Reddit style aggressive comments. If you are rude I will block and ban you.

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Cake day: January 4th, 2025

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  • https://serverpartdeals.com/ Is frequently recommended as reliable and with a good warranty. When I first started I got my from a local electronics recycler with only a 30 day warranty. I was only caring about price. Now I’m just using bigger used ones. My only warranty is them being cheap to free and backing up data multiple places.

    I agree it’s a bigger step. I currently only have one at my office and it took me forever to get around to setting it up.

    I mean just plug them in to your computer or server then move your data. If it was me I would rsync-avz source destination the data :)

    An Optiplex only has one maybe two bays. But the low power and cost are worth it!

    I think it really doesn’t matter what hardware you have as long as it won’t randomly break.

    Maybe I’ll give my specific example. I have a QNAP 1u server that was given to me so I decided to use it as a cold backup. I turn it on once a week and then ssh into my main servers and rsync important data into their respective locations on the QNAP.

    If I was making a new system I would make a fedora server 41 usb, install that to a new system using the gui, restart it and ssh in to setup my folder structure, then rsync ally stuff there and be done :) Would probably take less than 30-60 minutes to setup