I’ve been doing this off Windows PCs for over a decade now. I personally think professional grade servers are way overkill for this and will suck up a ton of energy for little benefit compared to consumer grade hardware.

Realistically you’re going to maybe be serving between a couple and couple dozen people at most, charging little to nothing for access, and hosting data that isn’t critical for anything, so having perfect uptime and loads of redundancy isn’t necessary.

In my experience, what is critical is setting everything up on an OS designed for this kind of work (which isn’t Windows) as that’s what’s caused me grief over the years and not anything to do with the hardware itself. I’m actually planning on rebuilding everything (leaning more toward doing little more than upgrading my OS, CPU, and RAM on hardware from 2018) and just posted about this a few days ago.

Even a lightweight, micro office PC or laptop with a mobile processor would work fine for this power wise, but lacks the ports and HDD mounting space to do the job well.

I don’t think the article addressed it directly, but it seems like it’s improved due to being lighter weight with more torque and offset by not needing axles or gearing since it can be mounted in the wheel. It says they weigh 40kg, which isn’t too bad compared to axles and gearboxes in my experience with ICE vehicles.

I’m curious how this holds up to things like potholes and minor fender benders if it’s integrated in the wheel. Imagine hitting a huge pothole or a curb and not only having to replace a wheel, control arms, hub, ball joints, etc but also an entire electric motor.

I think most people like it because it’s similar to professional sports but with fewer primadonnas and marketing. I think they think it’s more “pure.”

Plus they’re easily cleaned and changed.

As opposed to random people who wrote their opinion on a webpage or something? These groups are great for crowdsourcing lots of ideas you may have never even considered, and its not as if saving for a car is some niche topic. Can you point to any comments here that seem like bad advice?

If the 2028 election was happening tomorrow I think the Democrats would lose again.

Absolutely. They’d probably try to court Mitt Romney to run under their ticket.

Democrats have shown time and time again that they don’t give a shit what voters think which is why they keep losing elections. Biden and Harris wouldn’t even turn their back on Netanyahu even when it meant Trump would get reelected as all tbe polling showed. Progressives don’t bother with it because they’ll be ignored either way and you can only be ignored so many times before giving up on them listening. Blaming the voters for the actions of the party is just giving them cover for their ineptitude. Voters don’t decide their policy.

At this point they do little else than act as controlled opposition for the Republican party, so this is just our reality for the foreseeable future. Maybe if the leadership gets ousted, we’ll have a chance but it looks more like a new party will need to be formed and the Democrats go the way of the Whigs.

“unemployedclaquer”

Their username is “unemployedclaquer”

Bud, if you got hired, you’d have to delete this account, so I think you really need to ask yourself what is most important in life.

How much are you paying for that if you don’t mind my asking? I looked into seedboxes very briefly in the past and they typically didn’t offer much storage. It was either lots of storage and little bandwidth or lots of bandwidth and little storage when looking at options to configure some sort of remote media server.