My homelab consists of 4 machines currently. When choosing them I tried to be energy conscious - using hardware which would not consume too much electrical power, while still trying to maintain the up-front cost low. These are mostly older systems and I was unable to find decent power consumption numbers for them. The specs 1x MSI Cubi 3 Silent NUC CPU Dual-core i5-7200U RAM 2×16GB 2x Lenovo ThinkCentre M910 Tiny ...
I’ve been using Umami analytics on this blog for quite some time now. I self host an instance on my homelab. I spent a bit of time researching self-hosted analytics and generally they had a few issues. First, I’d like the analytics platform to be privacy focused. No cookies, GDPR compliant, no PII. Umami checks this mark. Second, many of the alternatives had quite a bit of hardware resource overhead once hosted. They would either consume a ton of memory, the cpu usage would be high or require me to host something like ClickHouse to run them. Since this blog is not the new york times I feel like hosting a specific database for it would be overkill. My homelab is rather small, so keeping things minimal is how I manage to stretch it. Umami consumes around 1% of a CPU core and ~240MiB of RAM on my homelab. ...