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Ask HN: Who else is self-hosting AI and apps at home/office?

by jconley on 2/7/25, 5:01 PM with 5 comments

I've been playing around with this the last couple years, slowly adding to my pile of hardware in the cabinet. Who else? I currently have a Synology NAS, a couple mini-pcs, a gaming rig with GPU.

- Running an ETH node

- Running my own DropBox

- Archiving emails

- Backing up photos

- Dual honed internet w/Starlink

- My own local AI assistant with access to all of it

Who's with me?

  • by zoezoezoezoe on 2/7/25, 5:37 PM

    100% I love self-hosting all my services, self-hosting means freedom. I'm using old parts from my PC, email, nextcloud, tor node, game servers, and, yes, even AI stuff with the gpu I threw in there.

  • by monomial on 2/7/25, 6:42 PM

    I self-host everything I can. Unfortunately email is a bit tough these days but I should start archiving it locally. What tools are you using for that?

    I haven't done much experimenting with local AI models yet - probably need some newer hardware for that to be worthwhile.

  • by mettamage on 2/9/25, 12:04 AM

    How have you done the last one? I have stuff running on ollama but not with "access to all of it"