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Discussion on: Best way to turn spare laptop to server? (And turn on 24/7)

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Bobby Iliev

I use a $5 DigitalOcean Droplet and it is handling 50k hits per month smoothly.

A good server configuration is key. You could also add a 1GB swap file for some extra buffer.

At home, I have a raspberry pi 4 with 4GB RAM and I use it as a web server + VPN and I run OwnCloud on there, rather than running your laptop 24/7. I've configured port forwarding on my router and it works very well for external access as well.