3 articles tagged "self-hosting"
The Raspberry Pi 5 is the gateway drug of self-hosting, and a used 8th or 9th gen i3 office desktop is what I moved to. Here is the honest comparison, price, power, performance, Quick Sync transcoding and the one thing the Pi does that the i3 never will.
A new RIPE Labs study shows email consolidating around two providers, and the takes write themselves. I have run my own mail server for two years, and the numbers describe a trend, while my inbox describes a choice.
I added up what my self-hosted stack replaced and what it costs to run, hardware and electricity and my time included. The number surprised me, and not only in the way you would expect.