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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by Melatonic on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @05:41PM (#33169593)
Old laptop at your own place + second old laptop at a home lived in by family or friend would probably work great for this.

Hell now I want to try this with two old but decent android phones - they would sip power and have a built in UPS and would blow a RPI out of the water speed wise. Throw a USB-C to Ethernet adapter on each and setup for HA (or if you were really lazy just a simple round robin DNS setup). Put one at a friend house and have them both setup with the free Cloudflare proxy thing and you would not even need to open any ports on your firewall.

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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by benplumley on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:26AM (#33172853)
The problem with using old phones is that the battery swells up after a few months left continuously on charge. You could extend the life using Tasker and a smart plug, but you'd lose a lot of the UPS's potential.
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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by BatteryMountain on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:24AM (#33174643)
Old phones don't get security/kernel/driver updates, careful...
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