So I got into self-hosting…

I like configuring things, and hate subscriptions, so I’d been thinking about it for a while.

Hating subscriptions, to start I only had two to rid myself of: Google One Basic, and Spotify Premium (which got a bump in October).

The Hardware

Looking for a small, quiet, power efficient box with easy storage expansion, I landed on the Bee-link Me Mini. It has an Intel N150 processor, a pretty common (and powerful for its size and efficiency) little chip for mini-PCs with a base power usage of 6W, six M.2 slots for NVMe SSDs, two 2.5Gig ethernet ports, and barely makes a sound with its single fan.