Seems like a pretty weird idea. Thoughts?
I mean you can but it’s a big waste of most of the hardware. Better to use an old desktop or laptop as a server
Are there any benefits to doing this over having a dedicated server with a vpn you can connect to for outside the network?
Because otherwise this seems like unnecessary performance overhead on a device which I’d like to squeeze as much performance out of in order to play games…
You get to make a video and get some views
It’s a bit like using a laptop for a server, which does have some benefits like lower power consumption and an automatic UPS. But it has the disadvantage of having to put most of your storage in an outside enclosure, which you’d need a UPS for anyway. If you need to run something durable with low storage requirements and high uptime requirements laptops make sense.
This, however, does not.
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Eh, looks like a (sorta) fun project. But you can turn pretty much any Linux machine into a home server, so this isn’t really that surprising - and as plenty have pointed out here, there are better hardware choices.
I have a file/dns server in my basement that is built of my desktop upgrade leftovers. Every so often I swap out the mobo/cpu and reinstall a Debian flavor of some sort. Run my setup scripts, start up my docker services and hey, presto! My server abides.
