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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    11 months ago

    I did think about this, but finally abandoned the idea for 3 reasons:

    1. Not much choice of hardware
    2. Unlikely to come across old hardware of that type to repurpose
    3. Much harder to move workloads from/to the cloud if necessary.

    That being said, if I had a spare Mac mini I would probably have tried 🤓