CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun

Posted by websku 1 day ago

CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun(fulghum.io)

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drchaim 1 day ago|

My workflow is a bit different in the sense I open my claude session in my laptop, at the directory of my ansible homelab code, and I also give Claude access to ssh to my homelab. But at the end it's almost the same, great tool.

FatherOfCurses 1 day ago||

Telling us you did all this without sharing how is just bragging.

walterraj 1 day ago||

I have a hard time reading things like “The last one is the real unlock.” or “That alone justified the box.” without immediately thinking of an AI trying to explain something. Not to say this was written with one, but the frequency with which I see phrasing like this nowadays is skyrocketing...

bilekas 1 day ago||

I recently got a zimaboard2 and have been blown away how powerful it is, x86 and 16GB I think it was around 250$. I have it running proxmox. Dedicated GPU for transcoding, all working out of the box with the ZimaOS.. And no AI needed.

Gualdrapo 1 day ago||

One day when I have some extra bucks I'd try to get a home server running, but the idea of having something eating grid electricity 24/7 doesn't seem to play along well with this 3rd world budget. Are there some foolproof and not so costly off-grid/solar setups to look at (like a Raspberry-based thingy or similar)?

imiric 1 day ago||

Your fridge and other home appliances likely use much more power than whatever a small server would. The mini PC in the article is very power efficient. You likely won't notice it in your power bill, regardless of your budget. You could go with a solar-powered setup if you prefer, but IMO for this type of use case it would be overengineering.

noname120 1 day ago||

Mac Mini (M1 and later) under Asahi Linux just uses 5 W for a normal workload. If you push it to 100% of CPU it reaches 20 W. That’s very little.

atahanacar 1 day ago|||

I doubt anyone who is too tight on cash that they have to think about the electricity cost of a home server can afford a Mac.

SchemaLoad 1 day ago|||

Only thing is you can't run Proxmox which makes self hosting much better, and you'll be limited to ARM builds, which on server is at least a lot easier than trying to run desktop apps. Modern micro desktops are also fairly power efficient, perhaps not quite as low as the mac, but much lower than a regular gaming desktop idling.

Avoid stacking in too many hard drives since each one uses almost as much power as the desktop does at idle.

didntknowyou 1 day ago||

idk exposing your home network to the world and trusting AI will produce secure code is not a risk I want to take

austin-cheney 1 day ago||

I have found that storage is up in price more than 60% from last year.

I am writing a personal application to simplify home server administration if anybody is interested: https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio

WiSaGaN 1 day ago||

I have a similar experience when I found out that claude code can use ssh to conect to remote server and diagnose any sysadmin issue there. It just feels really empowered.

pixelbyindex 1 day ago||

I also started started experimenting with self-hosting in the last few years. Started with a simple Plex server, then gradually evolved my little setup into a handful of open-source apps that now cover most of what I use during my day to day.

There are a few important things to consider, like unstable IPs, home internet limits, and the occasional power issue. Cloud providers felt overpriced for what I needed, especially once storage was factored in.

In the end, I put together a small business where people can run their own Mac mini with a static IP: https://www.minimahost.com/

I’m continuing to work on it while keeping my regular software job. So far, the demand is not very high, or perhaps I am not great at marketing XD

windex 1 day ago|

I had problems with tailscale being flaky about a year ago and it would stop responding taking down networking with it. I've since ripped it out and went with a VPS based wireguard for all PCs and mobiles. Stable since then.

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