HACKER Q&A
📣 jconley

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


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?


  👤 zoezoezoezoe Accepted Answer ✓
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.

👤 monomial
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.


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