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Finally got a 24/7 server up (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Landless2029@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So I've been playing Icarus with the wife and the optimization is hot garbage. Wife is hosting and pulling 10 fps with a Nvidia 3070TI

We enjoy the game so I start doing research. Turns out once you've played enough the database on the host just gets too big and chokes out the CPU threads since it can't use more than 2 cores.

Answer is to migrate your world to a sepf hosted dedicated server. Say no more.

So now I got an excuse (wife approved) to setup a computer as a server and keep it running. I have an old HP SFF i5 16GB RAM with an SSD I've reimagined a few times for a home server.

Flashed it with Debian and setup the Icarus server in docker. Runs like a champ.

~~Bonus points. I hooked up a wattage meter and it idles at 1~2 watts!
I used to run an old gaming computer as a home server and it felt like $30 a month in electricity.~~

Edit: System idles at 19 watts. I had the meter plugged into the wrong device...

Now I can start throwing more stuff on there once I figure out backup for the game world incase I bork it.

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[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I tried Proxmox but found it way overkill for home use. I run ~50 Docker containers and I love Docker for its ease of use. Proxmox is an order of magnitude more complicated.

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How do you manage backups? One big benefit of Proxmox is running containers in vms and easily snapshot/backup/restore whole vms.

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

"Backups?"

[–] zingo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Yes. It's just a higher level of efficiency, portability, snapshots and backups.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

50 containers...

I hope I don't go that crazy.

I'd need a WebUI at that point I can monitor from a Workstation.

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was probably exaggerating when I said 50.

I just counted the icons on my dash. 42.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That's still pretty accurate!!

[–] adeoxymus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Hehe tbh I only run 5 😅 I found it useful when I had to diagnose some cpu hogging off one of the containers and the ease of backups. Even though have not needed it yet.