I’d like to have my own server at home sorta like a home AWS.

How to set up one and make it available to anyone over the Internet? What tech specs should I buy (RAM, CPU, # of cores, operating system, etc.)?

How much does it cost to keep one running all the time?

  • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s a REALLY broad definition.

    A web app that does what?

    Are you running your own Netflix-ish server? Transaction processing? Cloud storage? Ai chatbot?

    Each one has very different requirements, and this is just the first four that came to mind .

    AWS has hundreds of buildings filled with millions of servers, so you aren’t going to compete with that, even on a small scale.

    But could you run your own little Facebook type thing? For a handful of users, sure. Could you handle the number of users that Facebook actually has in a day? You are looking at buildings filled with Computers, not a single machine’s spec