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Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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I always CTLR + F these threads for Jellyfin, because most people I know use Plex and don't even know Jellyfin. Are you happy with it? I've been using it for like half a year now and am pretty satisfied.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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On my Synology NAS, I run the following using Docker: - Jellyfin: Streams my movies and shows - Paperless-NG: Where I keep OCR'd scans of my paper docs - Airsonic: So I can stream my music using the Subsonic protocol - Photoprism: Where I store my photos, auto-labelled with AI and geotagged - The Synology Surveillance Suite: NVR for my home security cameras. - Wireguard: So I can access all this on the go It feels pr…

yup I have a DS920+ running docker instances of :

Plex

Tiddlywikki

trilium (x2 instances)

taiga

Homepage

Pingvin

freshRSS

pihole

minecraft server

valheim server

My ftitzbox router handles wireguard for me

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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I have a RaspberryPi Model 3 B+ with 2x 2TB HDDs running in RAID1.

It currently runs PiHole and Jellyfin (a media server).

Next on the list is to get a docker container to run qbittorrent + vpn, so I don't have to transfer the files across to my server from my main PC.

I'd also like to open up my file server with friends and family but not sure on the approach just yet...

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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A fairly compared to some of the others. I used to run more but have reduced it a little.

  Hardware
    An HP Miniserver Gen7 with just 4GB of RAM
    120GB SSD for OS
    4 Disks (3,4,4 and 6 TB) No RAID
    4 External Disks to match the above for backup

  Software
    NFS for File Sharing
    sftp server for restic backups (also backing up to B2)
    KVM with 1 VM with prometheus and Grafana

  VM In Cloud
    postfix, rspamd, dovecot, mailman for email
    apache/mysql with various website
Planning to add a recycled desktop as an extra server soon

    Wireguard
    Some more VMs for developing a website project
    Moved Prometheus, grafana

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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- Bind for internal DNS zone - Pi-hole on 2 Raspberry Pi 4s - Chrony stratum 1 NTP from GPS on a Pi, my OPNsense router redirects all NTP traffic to it. - Emby (like Plex) - Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr/Transmission with VPN/SABnbzd for collecting lots of little boxes that fall off trucks. - Calibre-web - LibreNMS - Omada/UniFi controllers - Home Assistant - Tailscale Almost all Dockerized now but it didn’t used to be. One…

> Pi-hole on 2 Raspberry Pi 4s Is this for redundancy? How does this work?

pi-hole is at it's heart a recursive dns server, so you run two of them and advertise both in your dhcp(or put them in manually if you roll staticly)

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Navidrome is my favorite, by far. It's like a personal Spotify. It also has built-in subsonic support. Syncthing is another I could not live without. All devices upload to my server and my server gets backed up to S3/backblaze type service. Plex for movies. But I may look at Jellyfin soon. I use Calibre-web, but it's really not my favorite. Okular is so much better. And Calibre is a chore to use and overkill for my n…

I do use Plex for music as well, and I am quite happy with it. I don't know Navidrome, but I was wondering what made you choose it over Plex for music?

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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post #86

Reading this thread, someone needs to put the home server in a tiny box, preinstalled with all the apps and put a slick user interface on it. I think https://umbrel.com is a thing but it's not packaged with hardware. Something that packages the hardware and software together would be pretty killer. Plug and play. Instant email. All the apps. Easy migration from existing services.

Part of the fun for me is the tinkering, and I'm not sure if non-techies "get" the benefit of running a home server. Maybe the tide is turning for the younger generation? I can only speak for most people my age (30-40), they are capable of interacting with technology but they have absolutely 0 understanding of how anything actually works.

"Why when I can just use Spotify/Netflix/iCloud/etc"? Is the answer I got when telling them about my own home server shiz

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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post #86

Reading this thread, someone needs to put the home server in a tiny box, preinstalled with all the apps and put a slick user interface on it. I think https://umbrel.com is a thing but it's not packaged with hardware. Something that packages the hardware and software together would be pretty killer. Plug and play. Instant email. All the apps. Easy migration from existing services.

Yunohost ? Then put a sticker on a random box and your done.

Seriously, it does most of what you describe : good UI. Excellent user management between apps. Great catalogue ( 500+ all tested with different level of integration)

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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- Router in VM - Main workstation in VM with GPU passthrough (saves power by not having an additional machine running) - Nextcloud for files, calendar, contact sync - Joplin server for notes sync - Samba NAS for me and everyone else who lives in the house - Occasionally one or more Minecraft servers for friends - Jenkins CI for my open source projects - Mail server (using the ISP's mail proxy for outgoing) - qbittorr…

How is storj going ?

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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post #86

Reading this thread, someone needs to put the home server in a tiny box, preinstalled with all the apps and put a slick user interface on it. I think https://umbrel.com is a thing but it's not packaged with hardware. Something that packages the hardware and software together would be pretty killer. Plug and play. Instant email. All the apps. Easy migration from existing services.

Synology NAS products (using their quickconnect service) get pretty close to this. You have to install their apps from an App Store but that feels reasonable for even the average consumer.
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