what would you do with it other than a seedbox? its running proxmox but I ended up spending months learning and configuring it and now afraid to give up on it. it would be great if I could monetize it and keep the server going I've grown quite fond of it.
I might build another one and colocate it
You can create users for a VPN easily with Pritunl -- I'd offer that to friends and family.
Bare in mind:
- bandwidth will be high, say 20-25 TB/mo outgoing
- ram you might be tight, if you have the chance to grow to 384-512 it'd prob be better
- you'll need at least 2 boxes, one for mainnet and one for testnet. Testnet will be "less important" so you can still run a lot of other things on that machine
If I were you, assuming you find this interesting, I'd start a testnet node on your current machine, get practice with it, as I was mentioning keep running your other services. And then if you're convinced you just rent a 2nd machine on any of existing providers/your favorite location to run mainnet.
tonetegeatinst•6mo ago
Or build your own website or service uptime detector.
Finally: mirror those openbsd and Linux distributions...and serve that up your local area.
asdffdasy•6mo ago
but always run a non exit node. even in home fiber it's fine and you won't notice the bandwidth.