A Tour of My Homelab
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The author shares their personal homelab setup, showcasing their server management and self-hosting endeavors, sparking interest and discussion among HN users about their configurations and choices.
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c-hendricks
3 months ago
1 replyAnd here I am running more than that, plus some VMs, on a 4790K with 32gb RAM. Usage rarely goes above 50%.
picklerick12Author
3 months ago
1 replyYeah. The setup indeed is a bit overkill, but I am planning on adding a few more services, and there's also self hosted ollama, which needs some processing power on demand.
c-hendricks
3 months ago
Yeah my comment totally reads as a dig towards you but I swear I meant it as a like "hey, it's totally possible to run a lot of things without much power" to curious newcomers.
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