Comment by drnick1
21 hours ago
That's not the point. The point is that a "home" setup can basically replicate or exceed a "professional" setup when done right.
21 hours ago
That's not the point. The point is that a "home" setup can basically replicate or exceed a "professional" setup when done right.
A home setup might be able to rival or beat an “edge” enterprise network closet.
It’s not going to even remotely rival a tier 3/4 data center in any way.
The physical security, infrastructure, and connectivity will never come close. E.g. nobody is doing full 2N electrical and environmental in their homelab. And they certainly aren’t building attack resistant perimeter fences and gates around their homes, unless they’re home labbing on a compound in a war torn country.
> The physical security, infrastructure, and connectivity will never come close. E.g. nobody is doing full 2N electrical and environmental in their homelab. And they certainly aren’t building attack resistant perimeter fences and gates around their homes, unless they’re home labbing on a compound in a war torn country.
Why would you need all of that if what they have works? Nobody is going to raid a repo of open source software, you can just download everything for free.
I'd bet F-Droid probably is colocated. Nothing in their statement precludes this.
But the assertion by commenters above that home-hosting is a viable or even a better option for a project like this is silly. Colocating a single server is cheaper than a single a Comcast Business internet connection. Air conditioners fail. Electrical failures happen. These things might not be a problem for a personal project, but they're easily and cheaply mitigable risks at commercial scale.