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Looking for advice on getting started with Self Hosting (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by wil_yam_sai@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24823173

Hi folks, looking for a bit of steer to get off the ground with self hosting. My goals to start with are pretty straight forward:

I want to set up Home Assistant to move my smart devices off the cloud and fully contained within the walls of my home.

I want to set up my own little Pixelfed server for my family's use, along with some other federated socials.

From what I was looking at, I think my easiest route to doing both of these things is with a Home Assistant Yellow (built-in Zigbee and Thread system) with a Raspberry Pi 4.

I've never done anything like this before but I'm interested in learning. If anyone more experienced has any insight or direction, I'd really appreciate it! Cheers!

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[–] wil_yam_sai@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you both, got similar advice on the original post on going more mini pc route! Can't say I've done much research on them, but will certainly take a look using the Lenovo Tiny as a bench!

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use optiplexes because you can change out internals. Also cheap’

[–] wil_yam_sai@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, will give it a look!

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 days ago

I think mine run 20-40 dollars in electricity a year. I run maybe 20 containers on them.