Do you have a Home Server? You should!

[linuxavali]

In this day and age of everything being rent seeking behavior and owning nothing, it's never been a better time to dust off that old laptop or desktop sitting in the corner and turn it into a home NAS, plex, or really any other applications you want to run.

There's dozens of videos on YouTube about the topic, so I won't go into how to do it myself. Instead, I want to show off some of the things I have running on mine.

I have a standard desktop as my home

• AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core Processor
• 4 x 32GB for 128GB DDR5 CL40 5600MT/s RAM
• Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB NVMe Drive
• 2 x Toshiba N300 Pro 8TB NAS 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive
• 1 x 8TB WD Red Plus Internal NAS HDD 3.5

On it, I'm running Proxmox and a few VMs (1 x ubuntu, 3 x windows). The 3 HDDs are set up in a Raid Z1 configuration. On the Ubuntu VM, I have a lot of docker containers where all my self-hosted services live.

Some of the notable self-hosted services are:

• Portainer CE - A GUI for managing docker containers
• Plex - Netfix for your own movies and tv shows. Does music too.
• Jellyfin - Same as Plex but the subtitles works better sometimes.
• Immich - Like Google Photos but better
• Synapse - A matrix chat server
• Crafty Controller - a free, easy-to-use self-hosted minecraft control panel
• Deluge - A torrent client for all my legally acquired Linux ISOs.
• Homarr - A dashboard to see all your service statuses at a glance.
• Mealie - A recipe and grocery list repository.
• Home Assistant - Home automation for smart devices.
• Several WordPress instances - None of them are personal instances, I'm hosting for a few people.

That's not a comprehensive list but most of the ones I thought should be mentioned.

How about you all? Do you have a home server? What services are you running on it?

[Galuade]

my first foray into home servers was turning my previous gaming pc into what is currently a very overspecced NAS using a normal desktop installation of linux mint (as I'm most competent with GUIs)

I also use it for torrents, sending wake on LAN signals to my desktop, and I've previously run a minecraft server on it

[NovaSquirrel]

I've got a Raspberry Pi 4 that I'm running Samba on, and before I bought a big second internal SSD, I was using it to give myself a bunch of extra storage that I could access without an external drive dangling off of my laptop. Still a good place to put backups that are physically separate from my laptop.

I'm also running a silly Discord bot on it that can do do image transformations, and at one point I was having it automatically make a Minecraft world backup every every week. I was excited to have a home server with 8 gigabytes of RAM and have that be a one-time-purchase, but in practice for the kinds of things I would want to host, you either want lots of RAM and power (games), or you don't need either (chat, simple websites, bots), and there's not a ton of use case for something weak with 8 gigabytes. Plus my VPS with 1 gigabyte of RAM has been plenty for everything so far short of hosting like, a Minecraft server or something.

I have sometimes used my Pi for a very long download that I want to have running while I'm asleep without keeping my laptop on, and I've used Deluge for that before, but often it's just wget running in a screen.

[linuxavali]

my first foray into home servers was turning my previous gaming pc into what is currently a very overspecced NAS using a normal desktop installation of linux mint (as I'm most competent with GUIs)

I also use it for torrents, sending wake on LAN signals to my desktop, and I've previously run a minecraft server on it

Heck yeah! No shame in sticking to a GUI. Glad to see you sticking your paws into the waters that is Linux.

[Galuade]

sometimes I even use SSH like a real grown up!

[linuxavali]

Haha nice! Gotta start somewhere.

[ihddn]

Yes, but today I decided I wanted to test Tmobile Home Internet again so its a bit broken, all my home network stuff is fine but all my external access software is broken, its a fun adventure I think I'll probably need to learn tailscale to fix this.

Build:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz
64 GB RAM (i don't recall the speed its not that important)
1 x RAIDZ1 | 3 wide | 3.64 TiB (for total 7.2 TB storage)
Intel Arc A380 Discrete Card
ZSUS X99-8D4 Motherboard