#project_teapot — Public Fediverse posts

budget goal for teapot is $200 and unfortunately that means i'm gonna be using pre-owned hdds. any tips on how to get the most life out of these? i probably need at least two so i can do a full redundant copy of the first one, right?

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doing some research for Project Teapot. in the replies:

do you self-host a chat server (IRC, Matrix, etc)? if so:
- which one?
- how many active users?
- how much memory does it consume?

my "ideal scenario" is 200 MB or less for 8 registered users, and I just want to know how realistic that is. boosts welcome!

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useful info for project teapot. i think someone else was asking for this earlier but I forget who, so I'm just gonna link it and hope it finds its target. this is a tutorial on how to "Reverse Tunnel" from a private network into a public one.

https://gist.github.com/scottrfrancis/9e68a113318fc0abfb028e06605a176e

why would you do this? suppose you have a computer at your house with a good amount of ram or storage, and you want to use it as a file server, but your home network doesn't have a static IP address. with a Reverse Tunnel, you can establish a connection to a public server somewhere else and ask it to relay specific ports through to the private server. so in my case I have a raspberry pi at home and a VPS with digitalocean, and I could run a web server on the pi and have it accessible via the VPS without ever having to meddle with my home network's router.

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