Home servers

[Shawn Gossman]

Besides @AWS have any of you ever used a home server to host your forum?

Tell us about it!

AWS - you can tell us about yours as well

 

[AWS]

When I built my house in Illinois I had the architect add a climate controlled server room off the garage.

In it I had 4 servers. 1 for static pages and 3 for mysql and replication.

The servers were all dual Xeons with 256G ram.

Today I have 1 server that runs 3 Windows 2022 VM's and 1 Windows 2025 VM. The server is a mini ITX with 36G ram and a Ryzen 16 core processor. It outperforms my old rigs by far.

 

[Tracy]

Nope, considering the ISP's that we have here locally prohibit that and will kill your account. And I'm not paying $1200 a month to pull in a dedicated fiber connection when I really don't need it and can get quality hardware from a vendor for less.

Now, I do host a VPN server here locally, but that is mainly for when we are out in the RV so we can still see our local channels on Roku.