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Anyone else using Mac minis as VM hosts for self hosting? My Friendica server is a Linux VM on a Mac Mini in my living room. The VM is bound to a VLAN tagged network interface so it’s completely firew (thegoatery.dyndns.org)
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Anyone else using Mac minis as VM hosts for self hosting? My Friendica server is a Linux VM on a Mac Mini in my living room. The VM is bound to a VLAN tagged network interface so it’s completely firewalled off from the rest of my network. Also got a second Linux VM on the same box for hosting local stuff on my main VLAN (HomeBridge/etc).

I feel like they’re really nice platforms for this, if not the cheapest. Cheaper than one might think though; I specced up an equivalent NUC and there wasn’t a lot of difference in price, and the M2 is really fast.

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

I did think about this, but finally abandoned the idea for 3 reasons:

  1. Not much choice of hardware
  2. Unlikely to come across old hardware of that type to repurpose
  3. Much harder to move workloads from/to the cloud if necessary.

That being said, if I had a spare Mac mini I would probably have tried 🤓

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    @BornDeranged Honestly, moving stuff to the cloud is trivial. Everything is in containers and I can just setup the nginx reverse proxy that’s also running on the VLAN to redirect to the cloud. Job done.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sure. But if I hosted on an Apple Silicon, I would use native services where available. And Apple Silicon in the cloud is harder to find.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    @BornDeranged I’m running everything in containers. Not got anything which cares which architecture the server is. Data is data.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    @aniki because it was the cheapest machine available for the performance I wanted in a useful form factor.

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