Thank you very much for pointing this out.
I completely forgot to mention this, since I’ve been running compute modules with nvme’s for ages.
Just to add a further alternative: The pine64 soquartz baseboards are also compatible with rpi compute modules.
Also for extra saving: by the time you buy all that, there are a lot of second hand office mini PCs that are considerably cheaper on ebay.
If it is for home use, why not go with a raspberry pi (or similar, there are lots of cheaper alternatives like it) which is only accessible from the local network and not from the internet?
If access through the internet is needed, you can use one of many free dyndns services. (e.g duckdns.org)
You could also look into existing projects and maybe contribute instead of building from scratch, but thats up to you. Through a quick search I found https://github.com/FSchiltz/Helse
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Yes I have and it’s good, but I don’t think anecdotal evidence matters. I may have been lucky or you might be unlucky.
Personally I always buy multiple refurbished drives and put them in a raid in such a way that they can fail without fucking me over. For a minimal setup, mirror and throw big fat errors with sound when one is down or has smart errors or bad blocks.
You can get 4 cores, 6gb ram, 200gb ssd for 6$ per month from contabo.
Lets normalize the price for comparison.
6/3 = 2
So for the same normalized price you get:
Thats a bit more CPU, four times the RAM and six times the storage!!!
I highly doubt that the “near bare metal” performance of that one core is better than just having 30% more virtualized cores.
And the math gets even worse if you compare the other tiers.
The only good tradeoff for this offer is the unlimited traffic IF and only if you actually would hit the comtabo limits (32TB outbound + unlimited incoming) and there is probably some math where you can calculate when it starts to be worth the money vs. getting a second contabo vps.
Thats expensive
With a very nieche benefit. I doubt that one core can chug enough to make any significant bandwith
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borgmatic is way too easy and hetzner storage box is way too cheap to have any excuses
My 8GB soquartz CM4 has a broken memory chip and I can’t return it, so I am contemplating whether I should throw it in the oven and hope for the best or whether somebody wants to buy a half broken one unbaked …
Probably should have given all of the evidence to the police instead of deleting some of it.
In most western jurisdictions platform operators are not liable for user content, (as long as they cooperate with the authorities) so nothing for you to worry about.
Next time, don’t do anything, no deleting, no blocking, contact the police and ask them what they would like you to do. Maybe they’d even would want to letting them keep posting for a while to gather more data on the offenders, but idk how they deal with selfhosted stuff tbh…
(this is not legal advice)
(Also I totally understand that you don’t want your other users seing that kind of stuff. I know nothing about the matrix moderation tools, so maybe the media is on the server db somewhere … might be relevant to figure that out)
Edit: this does not apply if you live in an authoritarian police state or third world country, like OP apparently does.