Is it a bad idea to use my desktop to self host?

What are the disadvantages?? Can they be overcome?

I use it primarily for programming, sometimes gaming and browsing.

  • SGGEnglish
    19•1 year ago

    If you are going to use your desktop, I would suggest putting all of the self-hosted services into a VM.

    This means if you decide you do want to move it over to dedicated hardware later on, you just migrate the VM to the new host.

    This is how I started out before I had a dedicated server box (refurb office PC repurposed to a hypervisor).

    Then host whatever/however you want to on the VM.