I have an Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop that is currently not being used. Would that be good? Overkill? Under powered?

I use Debian for my main distro for my personal laptop. Would that be good? Should I have stable or a rolling release?

Is there anything special that I need to do on my home network setup? Create a DMZ perhaps?

This is my first self hosted project, so any information or advice is appreciated.

  • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    1. The laptop is super overkill for just misskey.

    2. Debian is good.

    3. Do you want it to be accessible through a public domain? If so, how - there are many options, like cloudflare tunnels or dyndns.

    • Geodad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      I have a lighter laptop that I could repurpose. It’s an ASUS with a celeron processor and 8GB of RAM.

      I would like it to be accessible. I don’t like Cloudflare. I need to check dyndns and learn more about it.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        8 hours ago

        First you need to check if your ISP gives you a public IP (can be temporary, if you are fine with using dyndns). Otherwise you will need some tunneling service or run such yourself from a VPS.

        • Geodad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          I’ll have to look into that. I’m lucky to live in an area with a municipal utility co-op.