Do you have a Home Server? You should!

[Galuade]

Well, I didn't/don't have the heart to throw out/sell my old desktop PCs. I have an even older tower that's been sitting unused. I wanted to at least use my retiring gaming PC for something useful and I thought it would be fun to learn home networking and have a NAS/backup setup

[linuxavali]

How are you running 128GB of Ram on the AM5 Platform, did MOBO manufacturers finally update their BIOSes to support 128GB of Ram or are you using custom RAM timings? It used to be ram stability was an issue when you slotted all 4 channels with 32gb for each slot unless you handicapped your clock speed down to 3200MHz.

Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot to mention i did turn down the RAM speed. Between all the things I was running, the amount of RAM was the bottleneck so I decided a RAM speed sacrifice was okay for now. This system barely hits the CPU as it is, and I have noticed no lag or slowdowns in anything. According to dmidecode the effective memory speed is currently 3600 MT/s. I'll update my post to reflect this.

[ihddn]

Having a home server is one of those things I've always thought was really cool, but the few times I've had extra hardware laying around and made one... I couldn't think of a single thing to do with it that wasn't more convenient to keep on my desktop. Do y'all have a ton of devices spread across a house or something? I'm curious if there's something I'm missing or of it's a project car for nerds type deal.

I for one specifically wanted to get things off my desktop, having the server store my media and files and send them out so I can access them easily from any device I have or even remotely is great. I also like to be able to turn off and reboot my desktop without that also cutting off my ability to access stuff through my phone or laptop.

[beeps]

Having a home server is one of those things I've always thought was really cool, but the few times I've had extra hardware laying around and made one... I couldn't think of a single thing to do with it that wasn't more convenient to keep on my desktop. Do y'all have a ton of devices spread across a house or something? I'm curious if there's something I'm missing or of it's a project car for nerds type deal.

Kinda the problem I've had before. I've had a spare MacBook and a RasPi used for home networking stuff before, but other than PiHole and some very context-specific use cases, it didn't seem worth the effort of keeping it all up and running—and when it failed it was a pain in the butt.

[Finchtale]

I have a home server!
I built it using spare parts and whatever I could find that was cheap to fill the gaps.
End result is a very overspecced NAS.

I use it for quite a lot of things
Hosting my website
File sharing with my long distance partner and between devices
Syncing files between devices (mostly for Obsidian)
Hosting game servers
And likely more to come.

I've only had it since the start of the year but I've already made a lot more use out of it than I expected I would.

[KitLotor]

I've got a few remote servers, but I've also got my home server as well. I used to run a few home servers in tandem, but a critter in the area sold me a rather nice dual CPU workstation that pretty much has more than enough resources for what I want to run on it, so I managed to consolidate them.

It's a Dell Precision 7810 with two Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3s and 128 GB of RAM. It's also got a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, which is both necessary for some form of video output and also helps a bit with video (en/de)coding at times as a little bonus. (Also, just have to say, passing through a graphics card to containers is... fun )

It's running Proxmox, and while I plan on hosting more services on it for myself (such as staging servers for projects and the like), right now it just runs three VMs/containers:
- Jellyfin (media server, mainly to watch stuff with friends)
- Neko (Basically a web browser you can share with friends, kinda like rabb(dot)it if you've ever used that)
- Windows VM (basically just used as a game server, but it might do more in the future.)

It also serves as a storage server - it has a disk shelf (a Netapp d4246) which currently has 3 12 TB drives in a RAID array, as well as a few SSDs I had lying around.

Additionally, I have a PiKVM v1 I cobbled together with a Raspberry Pi 3 and a Pico I had lying around, and I use it to restart it whenever it crashes without having to go to the basement and plug a bunch of stuff in. Recently that's been a little more common, I'm still trying to figure out the root cause of that. (Triaging that has been partially why I threw together the PiKVM in the first place ^^")