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• (Quote) To me size of the machine doesn't really matter when I decide if I want to use infrastructure as code. It's more a decision between "this is an experimental box I am not going to care to reproduce" vs "I want to be a…

  in Low-end infrastructure as code Comment by marios November 4
• That's a nice idea. If I really wanted NixOS on a very low-end machine I would also consider treating it more like an appliance, either by doing a standard install with rebuilds done on a more beefy machine (with nixos-rebuild switch --target-…

  in Low-end infrastructure as code Comment by marios October 30
• I'm curious to see how low you can push NixOS resource usage

  in TierHive - Update post - 24th October 2026 - Now supporting NixOS (super tuned) Comment by marios October 27
• I haven't spent much time giving it a try yet but I'm inclined to write a simple provisioning script and leave it at that. My reasoning is that with 128MB RAM/1GB disk the VPS isn't going to do a lot anyway. The amount of resources l…

  in Low-end infrastructure as code Comment by marios October 24
• Interesting. I've used terraform to provision cloud resources but not to do things like installing packages or updating configuration. Now I'm curious to know that what you're doing

  in Low-end infrastructure as code Comment by marios October 23
• New member: marios Please introduce yourself and tell us why you want to join this forum? I like computers, especially servers and ones with few resources. I like the challenge and I like when things run efficiently. I also think that forums are …

  in Welcome new Members - Mega Thread Comment by marios October 16