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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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[–] qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

Is power consumption a consideration? I want my self hosted server on 24/7, so a low-power single board is much more economical for me.

Also, are resources a problem? If your game is maxing out your rig and some batch job on a self hosted service starts, that could be annoying


or it could be a non-issue, just depends on your usage both as a desktop and a server.