I should have clarified I don’t mean for the day, I mean for a week plus.
- Never put network connectivity on server-class hardware. Low-power devices exist for this reason. Use them.
- If you need to access your information remotely when you’re away and it’s running on server-class hardware. Don’t. It’s a needless waste of power.
- If you’re talking about accessing your porn collection when you’re on vacation. Don’t. Enjoy your vacation.
I suppose it depends on your use case, but I would disagree with points 1 and 2. Network connectivity has an effect on your entire network and is absolutely crucial. Pfsense/OPNSense, DNS, etc should always be on server-class hardware. I run these as VM, but I would argue that best practice is to have them on their own bare-metal server-class hardware. File storage is also incredibly important, and even with backups, I don’t want my NAS going down. It also runs on server class-hardware.
The two items you mentioned are the two items I would be least comfortable running on consumer-grade hardware.
This is a confusing question since wouldn’t you want vpn access and wouldn’t one of your servers provide that?
You didn’t mention it directly, but if you want to access any of your hosted services remotely, you will almost certainly want some kind of VPN solution. I host a few things over HTTPS, but there’s no way I’m exposing anything critical directly to the internet.
Yeah I do do that as well :)
I’m just worried that something goes wrong hardware wise or bios wise and I can’t turn it off or it causes a house issue.
Why would you leave your home?
With WFH and grocery delivery I only have to leave for dates and let’s be honest here…
My proxmox is LAN only running on a decade old beat up laptop. So yes.
