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Hello folks,

I have a mini PC which I use to host my website and some lightweight services. The mini PC idles at ~10% cpu usage. I was wondering if I can contribute 90% of CPU to the community. Thinking that maybe I can host other people's websites for free.

How can I do that? Should I host some fediverse software? What do I do with this much processing power?

Thanks in advance!

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 58 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Good intentions, but I would be wary of anything not official like foldingathome or boinc (both great projects I recommend)

The reason is other people are horrible, and while your intentions are good, it's significant risk. Lemmy had a csam attack a while ago and I immediately moved my instance to the cloud because I learned that if I even accidentally hosted anything it means immediate seizure, self hosting it means they plow through my door and yank the servers.

Tor nodes, peertube, you open yourself up to that risk

[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Where are you hosting your instance now? I've been looking into a cheap VPS for the things I'd rather not host on my personal home network.

K&T Host does Lemmy and it works great. Their support is stellar.

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