Earlier today a comrade got a pretty good tankie instance for Mastodon on this post of theirs. So I was thinking, due such things exist for other federated platforms such as Pixelfed and Peertube? And if so, which are the best for our purposes?
Earlier today a comrade got a pretty good tankie instance for Mastodon on this post of theirs. So I was thinking, due such things exist for other federated platforms such as Pixelfed and Peertube? And if so, which are the best for our purposes?
Hosting costs depend on where you’re hosting things. I host quite a lot, and for this reason, I’ve built what is essentially a mini datacenter inside my room (it’s literally right next to me right now, I’m looking at it). It’s mostly ARM SBCs, but you’d be surprised how much they can accomplish. I have plenty of capacity for whatever I may need to host in the near future. Because they are ARM devices, they are extremely power efficient, so all of this takes no more than 40W of power.
I’ve always love DBCs for this purpose! I make use of them wherever viable for the use case.
Yes, they are very nice. I am especially liking my Rock5B, which is an RK3588 machine. That thing beats all my other SBCs by far, while being so efficient that I’ve gotten away with just having a fan next to it with no heatsink and it still gets better temps than my raspberry pis that have a heatsink and fan.
That sounds incredible, I’ll be sure to keep an eye out for it when I’m next shopping for SBCs.