Hello folks,
I have a mini PC which I use to host my website and some lightweight services. The mini PC idles at ~10% cpu usage. I was wondering if I can contribute 90% of CPU to the community. Thinking that maybe I can host other people’s websites for free.
How can I do that? Should I host some fediverse software? What do I do with this much processing power?
Thanks in advance!
You may install BOINC and contribute to scientific computations.
Is there any way to exclude US projects, or only pick projects that are non-profit or open-source?
I wouldn’t want to waste energy on something that the Christian Taliban will likely destroy, or benefit from; or go to patented corporate research.
Yes, you select projects that you participate in by yourself.
Noice
The Tor network relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth. The more people who run relays, the better the Tor network will be. The current Tor network is quite small compared to the number of people who need to use Tor, which means we need more dedicated volunteers like you to run relays.
Pretty sure tor is a honeypot… Not sure the alternatives though
I think lower CPU usage is good. CPUs tend to be the most efficient this way and it allows for sudden usage spikes without lag.
You can check out https://foldingathome.org/ (Folding@Home) projects, where you contribute your spare CPU or GPU power for various science research.
You could mine crypto on my behalf (I’ll keep the profits)
You probably don’t want your server maxing out all day, your electricity bill will thank you
don’t want your server maxing out all day
But don’t you think about that poor server?
It is feeling so bored out and it’s whole life worthless…
- install gitlab-runner on your VM
- hook to a few projects as available runners
- do that again
No, you cant just „share processing power“
Also you could host something like a Lemmy instance, but then you had to get it federated, and mod it, and what not
If you want to do something good, host a snowflake proxy or something