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Is there room for Windows selfhosters? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm a Windows guy since forever and I recently got into selfhosting. So far its a blast! Are posts about that welcome here?

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[–] 31 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Sure ! But... How !? I don't have even the first idea how you'd host... Almost anything on Windows 😅 and I would be concerned by the power consumption of any non-minimalist OS.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Hyper-v server can get pretty damn lightwieght as it ships without a GUI

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    +1 for Hyper-V, despite being glitchy and only sustaining Home Assistant for about 12 hours this and VirtualBox were my best chance at self hosting VMs on a Windows host. The problem wasn't the virtualization, but the rest of the OS and its persistent maintenance cycles. Antivirus (MsMpEng.exe) and its NTFS scanning running more and more resources until the CPU was clogged. OP has gotta start somewhere.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    My ESXi box draws 20 watts at idle with 3 Windows VMs and 3 Linux VMs.

    Guess which of those VMs draws the most power (hint: it's not Windows).

    Power draw depends on more than the base OS, what it does matters so much more. Which is why my one Linux VM draws the most power - it gets used for some intense tasks with ffmpeg.

    Interestingly, I've found little power draw difference using ffmpeg on Windows or Linux. Both will max CPU while converting and take a similar amount of time.

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