Froyn

Right, it’s just the side-bar makes the distinction between “online services” and “self-hosted” so I wasn’t sure.

A place to share alternatives to popular_ online services_ that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.

VPS is self-hosted?

I firmly believe that this information (but for porn) would increase adoption of the software being advertised.

Time to sacrifice a robot and dial-up the BBS to see what’s fresh.

Or set up a second pi-hole.

That just sounds like Amish with more tech.

My RPi3 is still kicking (Single purpose PiHole)

Must not be my neck of the woods (US). You mentioned the Pi, which is in my wheelhouse of “cheap”. Personally I’ve got a couple computers picked up from the local community college for $10 running TrueNAS and Proxmox.

My Google-Fu couldn’t find an R9 3900X for under $200, just the chip, used. I had hopes you had a better source I was missing out on.

13ft Ladder is twice as expensive as this solution.

Got a link for a cheap Ryzen 9 pc?

Tracert will give you the latency of each hop required to make it to your destination. Not sure why everyone is complicating it.

If you’re replacing, why not clone the old drive to the new and expand to fill?

Shut it off for a month and use the savings to buy a low power Pi!

Loving this sweet sweet, this is what this magazine is here for, new toy.

Wife and I are into birding locally around the house. “Babe, it can listen all day and ID what it hears” might just be the tipping point to get her onboard with a couple cameras for the house.

And a local will always respond faster than non-local, unless that local is turned off.

It would make sense if you’re using your main machine to test the waters with to see if it’s worth getting invested.
So your pihole as an example would work as follows:

1. Install Docker.
2. Follow the docs to install the container/image/etc. for pihole
3. Change your home router’s DNS entries to now START with your main machine.
   --Your main machine goes offline for the night, your home router uses the secondary as does everything else that’s now been taught by DHCP to use your main machine for primary DNS.
4. Make your call and break it all back to where it started.

With the primary DNS being a “local”, I can’t imagine it taking that long to realize it’s offline and change to the secondary DNS on most devices. Make sure you set your “main machine” to a Static/DHCP Reserved IP on the home router, as a good general practice.

Other things I self-host are media related. I like to watch media from bed instead of in front of the computer. I turn my computer off when I’m not at it.
I could see if you were like hosting a local repository maybe. Like you want that whole “self-hosted” GitHub experience. That would be a decent use case for main machine hosting. Or VMs for testing different environments.

To satisfy the WAR condition, you also may want to consider an outer shell. Like a side table or something “furniture” adjacent. Cut and drop in a couple well-placed vents (and/or silent fans) and hide it; which is what she wants.