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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Why not build a new PC or buy an old pc? One with ryzen 5 5600G, 8gb Ram, 250GB ssd should cost ~250USD whether you buy new/old, i recently checked the prices, cause I needed one and they were similar. This should take you a long way. As for storage just pick a case with enough ssd/harddisk slots.

    You can also go much cheaper depending on what you get.

    The advantage is you can add a GPU like the intel A380 for av1 encoding of video if you feel like you need it.

    For OS depending on what you are doing there are a few choices:

    • True nas: mid difficulty
    • debian: i just use this with docker, does the job
    • alma linux/Rocky linux
    • ubuntu
    • yunohost: if you would be interested in hosting activitypub apps, easy
    • casaos: easy


  • I had a question about email.

    I am currentl, routing(Cloudflare Email Routing) my email to a Yahoo mail account, basically all incoming email gets routed to my yahoo, and from Yahoo I can send email with my custom address as the sender address.

    As far as I am aware I have a daily limit of 200 emails and 1tb storage, all this for free.

    Would such a service not be better for your purpose too? Are there certain advantages to paying for an email provider?


  • Just go Cloudflare. The dot.win told they have is incredible value ~3$ per annum if i remember correctly.

    Other pros of using Cloudflare:

    • Cloudflare ddns
    • Cloudflare tunnels
    • Cloudflare proxy

    It does a a few cons, like not being able to use custom nameservers if you aren’t paying 200$ a month. Also the fact of Cloudflare being an internet gatekeeper may not be to your liking.