How mini PCs are enabling a quiet revolution in self-hosting, making it practical and affordable to own your digital life| TerminalBytes.com
When I saw the first reviews of the ASRock DeskMini X600 barebone, I was immediately interested in building a home-lab hypervisor (VM host) with it. Apparently, the DeskMini X600 uses less than 10W of power but supports latest-generation AMD CPUs like the Ryzen 7 8700G!| Michael Stapelberg
I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable computer. An ideal home server. Until the Pi 4, the Pi was not that capable, and only with the relatively recent Pi 5 (fall 2023) do I feel the Pi is OK performance wise, although still hampered by SD card performance1. And the Pi isn't that cheap either.| louwrentius.com
At the beginning of 2023 I started renting a dedicated server from Hetzner with the intent to self-host several services.| g7o.today
I take a severely underpowered computer and make it do something useful.| ./techtipsy
A short explanation about what drives me to experiment with new hardware setups in my self-hosting hobby.| ./techtipsy
The Intel N100 (and N200) seem to be Intel's attempt at trying to muscle into the market that high-end ARM SoCs look to have cornered. With the Rockchip| bret.dk
For over 10 years now, I run two self-built NAS (Network Storage) devices which serve media (currently via Jellyfin) and run daily backups of all my PCs and servers. In this article, I describe my goals, which hardware I picked for my new build (and why) and how I set it up.| Michael Stapelberg
I gave in to my impulses and bought myself a small single board computer to be my power-efficient home server, here's how it went.| ./techtipsy
Honey, I shrunk my desktop PC!| ./techtipsy