Louis Rossman, a strong advocate for the right to self-repair, has an extensive, bottom to top guide on self hosting your own services. It starts from introducing what a modem is and what role it plays, and it ends with an entirely self hosted cloud. It comes in article as well as 13 hour video form. I would highly recommend this to anyone looking to get started self hosting - it doesn’t just introduce software you should learn, but it also shows you how to configure it.

Yup! They even had a demo clustering 5 of them to run deep seek proper

Have you considered the framework desktop? Uses amd strix halo. The same cost for the Mac mini (2k?) gets you around 90gb vram, out of a 128gb unified ram configuration.

I finally got link warden up and running, but I’m chasing down some failures on a few websites.

Also realized that me biting the bullet for unlimited bandwidth (screw you Comcast!) means I can run archive team warrior, so that’s been going.

And equally important, how do you do your backups? What system and to where?