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If you aren’t running it yourself, you’ll always be held hostage by toxic companies!
Time and time again, from account closures to account locking… if you value anything, you should really look at self hosting it. Yes it’s a learning curve, but now is actually a good time because you have claude to help, but don’t expect that to last!
I am and will only ever use the free tier of claude but even that is actually pretty useful. Just don’t reuse the same chat, create new ones, delete ones no longer needed and you rarely hit the usage limits.
I’ve used claude to get my own AI server running on a low power beelink PC and while i’m still learning, it runs pretty well so Imcan now bounce between my own AI, to claude for the few issues I can’t solve.
I agree in general about self-hosting, but backup seems like a special case. Where do you back up your self-hosted data? An offsite copy of the backup is needed, and it should be automatic. For most people (who only have one site, their home) that's not easy to arrange except through a cloud backup service.
In my case I work with a family member in another city. We connect via VPN (tailscale works well too if you prefer that) and push the data we want to backup. Something like nextcloud could be used too, although a regular file explorer works just fine once you're connected.
Now mind you it's mostly family photos, so not petabytes of data.
I don’t really have much to backup tbh, what I do have is backed up to another drive but unfortunately hosting that offsite because I don’t have friends, lol.
Hi, what kind of beelink do you have and AI do you run there? I have a similar setup and I'm very interested, I didn't think it was possible to run it on that low end.
I bought the Beelink SER9 MAX, mainly because it’s the only one I saw with 64GB Ram.
It came with windows, but binned that for debian running Ollama and openclaw pretty well. I looked at others but according to Claude, the A1 Pro that i looked at only really supports Windows and I emailed minisforum who confirmed it so kinda went off there PC’s.
I’m not aiming for speed though, i’m aiming for learning but the only issue i’ve run into a few times is:
But running /compact seems to fix it. I’d love a few more beelink’s to run a cluster though.
Edit: Also I’m also messing with openclaw and openclaw can’t seem to spawn agents to do tasks. Not sure if thats hardware related or config issue. 🤷♂️
Not who you asked but I got the Me2 cube from Beelink. It runs Truenas and has been reliable so far. The giant downside is nvme drive cost, like 3-4x from when I bought it.
If you are just storing data, find the really old Proliant cube servers on EBay, like an N40L. There's only one fan, if it works you can get 4 hard drives for cheaper than nvme, nstall truenas or xigmanas, and you have a slow but useful and reliable file server, with ECC memory and all kinds of useful things. 60w and quiet.
I’m currently running a U59 and storage is not a problem, although I have mechanical drives. I don't know if it is the best or optimal solution, but I am using mergerfs and I have a HDD bay to split the data into different drives.