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What can I do with no job and no VPS? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 days ago by atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So we have an old computer lying around and I wanna put it to good use. It’s an Apple laptop from like 2016. I don’t have the money for a VPS as I have no job, I’ve had trouble with cards in the past, and I only have a few dollars on my gift cards. I was thinking I could use just the computer and have it run 24/7 despite being inefficient, potentially, but what about hosting it on my own network and the CSAM/weird content issues that I have to face?

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[–] stratself 1 points 5 days ago

            
              Why do you want your own Lemmy instance? Can't you just create a community on another instance?
May not be the answer you want, consider exposing your laptop's service(s) via Cloudflare Tunnels. That's the best way if you don't have an exposable public IP.
Lemmy and other services will make outbound requests and leak your residential IP. If this is a problem for you, you should proxy outbound traffic on the machine
Have you considered Oracle but in another region? Or do they geo-restrict you?
For questionable content, look onto moderation tooling for Lemmy. Keep watch on your media folder(s) regularly and delete offensive ones