Comment by 👤 travisshears
Re: "Self-hosting with an old laptop"
Since you already have a VPS, probably with static IP, I would route all public traffic though it. Then connect both it and the old laptop to a VPN like Tailscale. Host the apps on the laptop say with docker. That’s my setup.
2025-12-25 · 4 months ago
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Self-hosting with an old laptop — I have a piece of hardware which I do not intend to use as a desktop machine ever again. It's a cheap and shitty HP laptop from 2019. AMD A6 processor, 8GB of RAM, 1TB spinning hard disk, and a DVD drive that hasn't worked in over a year. Since I have hardware from 2007 that is nicer to use than this machine, I was thinking of turning it into a server. I'd probably either install Proxmox, Alpine, HardenedBSD, or OpenBSD, and spin up a couple of lightweight...