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Hello folks,

I have a mini PC which I use to host my website and some lightweight services. The mini PC idles at ~10% cpu usage. I was wondering if I can contribute 90% of CPU to the community. Thinking that maybe I can host other people's websites for free.

How can I do that? Should I host some fediverse software? What do I do with this much processing power?

Thanks in advance!

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[โ€“] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could also use it for running more services at home ๐Ÿ˜ฌ. Thinks like Wekan, nextcloud, gitlab, matrix server, mbin, mastodon, grafana, mumble..

[โ€“] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

ok but there'll still be a lot of idle capacity that can be put to good use. I relatively rarely browse I2P, but I'm happy to contribute bandwidth. It's safe too, because I only see encrypted traffic coming from one relay and going to another one, and it does not run an "exit node"