I self-host mine using Mailcow, but I use an outbound SMTP relay for sending email so I don’t have to deal with IP reputation. L

I solved this by installing solar panels. They produce more electricity than I need (enough to cover charging an EV in when I get one in the future), and I should break even (in terms of cost) within 5-6 years of installation. Had them installed last year under NEM 2.0.

I know PG&E want to introduce a fixed monthly fee at some point, which throws off my break-even calculations a bit.

Some VPS providers have good deals and you can often find systems with 16GB RAM and NVMe drives for around $70-100/year during LowEndTalk Black Friday sales, so it’s definitely worth considering if your use cases can be better handled by a VPS. I have both - a home server for things like photos, music, and security camera footage, and VPSes for things that need to be reliable and up 100% of the time (websites, email, etc)

I think it’s so people here can give themselves a pat on the pack for self hosting lol.

Like how the Linux Lemmy community has so many “Windows is bad, Linux is good” posts. Practically everyone in there already knows that Linux is good.

Did you try the first app I linked to? I can’t try it since I’m away from my computer for a few days.

My screenshot is from the “Boost” mobile app on Android :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy

What type of data are you looking for? Does http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/network_usage_view.html suit your use case? There’s similar data somewhere in the modern settings app too.

There’s also performance counters for real time data (bytes sent and received): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/technologies/network-subsystem/net-sub-performance-counters. You can use these in any tool that supports performance counters. There’s an app that comes with Windows called Performance Monitor that can read these counters.

I see them!

Here’s a screenshot:

Up to you… $20 isn’t much and StarTech is a trusted brand, so it was worth it for me. I don’t trust the cheap generic brands on Amazon as much.

You likely won’t notice much of a difference between SATA and NVMe when using the drive via USB, and many people have spare SATA SSDs, so I’d just grab a USB to 2.5" SATA cable: https://a.co/d/dQ5QXR1. You don’t need an enclosure because the drive itself is already an enclosure.

Do you have a spare SATA SSD? This is my go-to USB cable for connecting SATA SSDs via USB: https://a.co/d/dQ5QXR1. Works well on Raspberry Pi and it’d work well on a thin client too.

Note that the Wyse systems don’t have much CPU power as they’re designed to be used as thin clients (where nothing runs on the system other than remote desktop connecting to a server somewhere). That’s why they have so little space - they were never designed to run a full OS.

You won’t see much of a difference between SATA and NVMe (if at all) as the maximum speed for SATA (6Gbps) is higher than the maximum speed for USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 Gen1 (5Gbps).

Nah you just need to use a provider that has an SMS API like Vonage, Telnyx, Twilio, etc. Many of them support replies too, so you can have something like “Reply with Y to RSVP”

SMS isn’t too popular any more but it seems like a decent fit for a use case like this, as it effectively gives you nearly real-time push notifications without requiring everyone to install an app.

you can help other users by adding the missing albums to MusicBrainz.

There’s also userscripts to automate a lot of the process of importing data from Discogs into Musicbrainz. There’s lots of niche/rare albums that are on Discogs but not on Musicbrainz.

This is a good point. I know the WSL team were doing some optimizations to improve the performance of iperf3 in WSL, but I haven’t tested it.

I was just joking :)

30 minutes can vary a lot depending on traffic. If there’s traffic, it can take me 30-40 minutes to get home from work even though it’s only 11 miles away and ~15 mins with no traffic.

How much does Glacier cost you? Last time I checked, some hosts had warm storage for around the same price, at least during Black Friday or New Year sales.

I have a storage VPS with HostHatch - 10TB for $10/month. That pricing was from a Black Friday sale a few years ago. They may not offer it that cheap again, but it’s worth keeping an eye out for their sales. They had something similar last year but double the price, which is still a good deal.

I use Borgbackup to back up the data to the HostHatch VPS. The most important data has a second copy stored with pcloud - I’ve got a lifetime 2TB storage plan with them. I know lifetime accounts are kinda sketchy which is why it’s just a secondary backup and not the primary one.

I don’t have any “disposable” files like torrents though. All the stuff I back up are things like servers that run my websites and email, family photos, CDs I’ve ripped myself, etc. I’ve only got a few TB total.

is it like a small company that might go out of business in a few years?

Hetzner is one of the largest hosting companies in the world.

for 81 euro/month.

You can probably find something cheaper from their auction servers.

I’ve got a storage VPS with HostHatch for my backups. It’s one of their Black Friday deals from a few years ago - 10TB storage for $10/month. Not sure they’ll offer that pricing again, but they did have something similar for around double the price during sales last year (still a good deal!)

Tape drives are too expensive unless you have 100s of TB of data, I think

The drives are expensive, and some manufacturers have expensive proprietary software, but the tapes themselves are cheaper per TB than hard drives, and they usually have a 20 or 30 year life guarantee. People seem to think tapes is old technology but modern tapes can fit 18TB uncompressed (they say 45 TB compressed but idk).

The default tier of AWS glacier uses tape, which is why data retrieval takes a few hours from when you submit the request to when you can actually download the data, and costs a lot.

30m away

30 minutes, 30 miles, or 30 metres?