Don't sell space in your homelab (2023)

Please Don't Sell Space In Your Homelab Hanging out in subreddits like /r/homelab, /r/servers, and /r/datahoarder, I see this question asked too many times: I have extra space in my home server, how can I sell this for other people to use? My answer (and a lot of other people’s answer): don’t. We’re Really Not Trying To Ruin Your Dreams If you come across this post, or if this was sent to you, know that we aren’t doing this for the sole purpose of ruining your day. We tell you this because playing with other people’s services and money introduces a host of potential issues, stuff that a lot of people aren’t able to solve on their own. Personally, I work for a medium sized hosting company in their support department, so I see the challenges we have to solve every day. Challenges that you have to solve for your idea to work and not open you up to a ton of legal risk. I promise I’m not trying to gatekeep, but if you have to ask for basic help in a forum, you won’t be able to solve ... Read full article.