Are there any technical/performance reasons why I couldn’t create an instance for myself and host a Plex server off of the same machine at home?
I’m fairly new to self-hosting in general, so any insight would be appreciated!
EDIT: I completely forgot to mention that this would be for a Mastodon instance, not for Lemmy.
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Lemmy often racks up hundreds of gigabytes in logs and other crap, chokes up the hard drive, and then force restarts the server. Not fun for something you use to stream media from. Takes quite some tuning to get it sorted.
If we are talking about two virtual machines on the same physical server with dedicated storage allocation, that shouldn’t matter.
I run Lemmy, Plex, and a bunch of other services from a desktop in my basement. It works great. The Lemmy docker setup is a little finicky but works well once you get it.
My bad, I forgot to specify that I’d like to create a Mastodon instance, not Lemmy. Though it’s good to hear that people are having success.
