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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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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I specced up an equivalent NUC and there wasn’t a lot of difference in price, and the M2 is really fast.

How come? Second hand HP Mini should be cheaper...

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

    @TCB13 I was surprised as well.

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

    I believe NUCs are more expensive than mini pcs and less bang for buck.

    Check out intel i5 9th gen. You can get one with hdd for ~$250. Some of them support m2.

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