Ask HN: Host a website from a living room in 2022?

• awesome-selfhosted

  765 177,191 9.1 Makefile

  A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

  

• bclm

  7 1,396 5.3 Swift

  macOS command-line utility to limit max battery charge

Constantly keeping the battery at 100% can be an issue, but modern versions of macOS allow you to limit charging. There are also utilities that work on older OS versions (they just issue an SMC command to achieve the same thing), like this one: https://github.com/zackelia/bclm

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• tailscale

  1,005 16,315 9.9 Go

  The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

  

Yes, a Raspberry is a viable option. These days I do most of my computing on a Raspberry Pi 4 attached to my home router:

https://fatcity.it/

One thing you really need is an SSD, though. I use a cheap Kingston, it works great but you must pay attention to the right USB->SATA adapter, picking one that's fully compatible with UAS drivers. For booting directly from the SSD with Ubuntu there is this useful guide:

https://jamesachambers.com/raspberry-pi-4-ubuntu-20-04-usb-m...

Performance wise, this little computer runs mostly like a common VPS, I think on par with a droplet from Digital Ocean, for example. Here some benchmarks:

https://pibenchmarks.com/benchmark/62022/

If you don't want to share your IP, a Cloudflare tunnel is a great alternative:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections...

Also, another essential tool is Tailscale, with it I can access my home server from basically everywhere just like a LAN connected device: https://tailscale.com/

PS: You can also do your own tunnelling with OSS alternatives, if you have enough patience/time.

Anyway, feel free to ask anything.

• cloudflared

  100 7,844 8.8 Go

  Cloudflare Tunnel client (formerly Argo Tunnel)

  

An alternative to static IP would be to use the Cloudflared proxy/tunnel. https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared

• free-for-dev

  3 3,149 0.0

  A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev (by jixserver)

> my side project

You have a lot of options here that don't involve hosting a site from your own living room. Try looking at these lists for ideas:

https://github.com/jixserver/free-for-dev

https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev

• free-for-dev

  111 83,673 9.5 HTML

  A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

> my side project

You have a lot of options here that don't involve hosting a site from your own living room. Try looking at these lists for ideas:

https://github.com/jixserver/free-for-dev

https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev

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