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Anyone else using Mac minis as VM hosts for self hosting? My Friendica server is a Linux VM on a Mac Mini in my living room. The VM is bound to a VLAN tagged network interface so it’s completely firewalled off from the rest of my network. Also got a second Linux VM on the same box for hosting local stuff on my main VLAN (HomeBridge/etc).

I feel like they’re really nice platforms for this, if not the cheapest. Cheaper than one might think though; I specced up an equivalent NUC and there wasn’t a lot of difference in price, and the M2 is really fast.

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[–] Skwiggs@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've been thinking more and more about getting a Mac Mini specifically for this as well. They're silent, not too power hungry and more than powerful enough, and I would just love scripting in Swift on there 😆 (but maybe that's just me).

How long have you had it setup like this? And what's your experience been so far?

[–] goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org 1 points 11 months ago

@Skwiggs Few months. I was using an old laptop with Debian before but Friendica was cooking it, literally.

The M2 Mini doesn’t break a sweat. It just takes the load and gets on with it.