Bro that’s the Reddit server.
Please use an ethernet cable, you gonna need to keep that connection spotless and WiFi are vulnerable no matter which protocols, better turn it off.
If I may also add hardened systems, a custom firmware on your router(Rec. Tomato series most updated)/hardware firewall(Rec. pfSense) with a VPS if the network is used for other means, they will help you in the long-term.
It should go without saying if you can’t secure a server, don’t host one. You’re responsible for anything that happens to it & us.
I actually ran a moderately active (like 20,000 hits a day) small business site from a laptop for a couple years. Of course one of the first thing I did was put a “SERVER DO NOT SHUT DOWN” sticker on it, and set the power settings so closing the lid did not shut down or sleep the computer. It was a Dell 7000 series with 16GB IIRC, it did great.
Not advertising here, but with this low traffic you could be in a permanent free tier with AWS with all the availability guarantees. It doesn’t work with EC2, but for serverless solutions (ApiGateway, Lambda, DynamoDB) they have something like “we start charging after 1M calls per month” (don’t quote me on this exact number). I have a couple of pet projects working this way
A temporary fix for overloaded lemmy.ml servers, via THAIO (Throw-Hardware-At-It Optimisation)…
Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
What specs do I need to run a lemmy instance for, say a small group of 1000 people? Cpu, Ram, Amount of Electricity needed, Minimum Internet Speed, Storage? Assuming that I would be federating with the top lemmy instances.
I think it would be possible to run it on that laptop. But the only way to find out is if you try for us!!
Yo, how’d you get in my home lab?
Unplug it real quick so we can find out
I have an old Raspberry Pi 1 lying around. Should I spin up my own instance?
I’m actually thinking about doing this exact thing with my own rpi b rev2 from 2012. I’m not sure it’ll even run a kbin/Lemmy instance though
How did you get into the Jagex office?
laughs in “stay awake even if lid is closed” settings in linux.
I have a minecraft server running on a laptop like this. Sadly I don’t have any friends that want to play minecraft right now ):
Come join us @ https://lemmy.world/c/oldschoolminecraft
No! Join us: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/693339
Sorry I don’t speak with communists