[SolarNet]

I have a k8s cluster running on "bare metal" of 3 old consumer desktops and 6 old laptops, mostly heterogeneous hardware. It's as easy as setting each of them up as a webserver or database server, but I only have to set up the software once per machine and forget about it.

Much better than trying to host 12 websites on three machines and dealing with each machine by hand. And also load balance by hand, network by hand, configure the database servers by hand, different logging locations, etc. And that's all assuming I'm using docker. Let alone if I don't and then also have to deal with multiple versions of software between sites, differing technology stacks at the webserver, etc.

It's the superior solution for personal clouds and hobbyist server management too.