Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months ago

Use desktop to self-host?

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Use desktop to self-host?

Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months ago

Is it a bad idea to use my desktop to self host?

What are the disadvantages?? Can they be overcome?

I use it primarily for programming, sometimes gaming and browsing.

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33•9 months ago
It’ll effect performance. It will need to be always on. It risks having interaction between your normal applications and server services. Also all your eggs in one basket if something goes wrong. That said it shoul be fine. Just take frequent snapshots and backups for important data

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