I have an old laptop lying around and I have been meaning to self host some stuff on it but never got around to it.

My biggest limitation is that I only have WIFI and I do not control the network. It’s basically your default residential WIFI network.

The only thing I actually need is self-hosted cloud. What can I utilize this laptop for?

  • @hungover_pilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•6 months ago

    I have a laptop motherboard setup with proxmox running:

    • plex
    • radarr,sonarr,prowlarr
    • opnsense
    • foundry VTT
    • pi-hole
    • unifi controller
    • qbittorrent
    • kavita

    This is running on an i5-1135 with 40gigs of memory. If your frugal about how you have stuff setup you can pack alot of services into old laptops.

    • @rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•6 months ago

      If I may ask, how exactly do you use OPNsense? Is it a gateway between the WAN and LAN interfaces, or do you just use it for the LAN-facing services?

      • @hungover_pilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•6 months ago

        Yes its my main router. Everything comes into the laptop across one interface setup as a trunk that includes vlans for WAN, LAN, etc. From there proxmox has a vlan aware linux bridge setup that connects to all the VMs/containers that I run. The VM virtual interfaces get tagged with whatever network I want the host to be part of.