Sarah Brown
This is my Friendica server. Left to right, the boxes are: Power over Ethernet splitter, Raspberry Pi 4b (2 gig) in official case, 256 gig SATA SSD in a USB3 to SATA enclosure.

That’s it. That’s what this post you’re reading federated from.
Jan 16, 2023 at 11:19pmWeb
Show threadSarah BrownJan 19, 2023
So a fun little update. The SSD in the picture was a cheap piece of junk, no faster than an SD card. It failed at about half past ten last night. @zoeimogen was able to recover the data and we’re back in business, but lesson learned: do not buy no-name Chinese SSDs.
Show threadAnne Sjoukje SchurerJan 17, 2023
@goatsarah
I wish I understood what you were saying.
Show threadSarah BrownJan 17, 2023
@annesjoukje Basically, the site my Fediverse server is running on is that stuff, in the photo. It cost about £120
Show threadAnne Sjoukje SchurerJan 18, 2023
@goatsarah
I always thought servers were great big machines.
Eye opening information. So does the 'black box' send info to a satellite or something? Or connect to other servers?
No need to answer as I probably wouldn't understand anyway.
But it is fascinating to see.
Shame the cute little thing has died. Transplant required? Heart or kidney?
Show threadSarah BrownJan 18, 2023
@annesjoukje It's just plugged into my internet connection
Show threadJoshJan 17, 2023
@goatsarah Love it. This feels more like how the internet should be, lots of fun little servers everywhere. The name "cloud" is ironic really since it means a whole lot of centralisation, just with redundancy. The real cloud would be everyone having a little server next to their router at home!
Show threadSarah BrownJan 17, 2023
@krnlg Yes. Real clouds are big and spread about!