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

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Post by loudmax »

lucb1e wrote: post #218

Hardware: old laptop from ~2012 and some external hard drives (~25W total). Occasionally used for things like yahoo answers archiving, fishnet (distributed lichess game analysis), random big computations or downloads, and other things I want to run overnight but don't need a big desktop PC for. Services it more permanently hosts: - email for me and friends - websites of friends - game server (Factorio, OpenArena, cus…

I also recommend using an old laptop as a server. Benefits include the built-in battery backup, built-in KVM, and relatively low power consumption.

The other major benefit is that if you're the kind of person who's apt to set up a home server, you probably already have at least one these lying around.

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

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Post by cm2187 »

guntherhermann wrote: post #207
cm2187 wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love tinkering but not with my data. For my data storage I want a stable and tested solution. I have done enough "shit I destroyed my RAID array" for my taste.

For important documents (insurance docs, mortgage, etc) I use SyncThing, for media I use my RAID1 array. I'd certainly hope that RAID1 works as I expect it to if one of my HDDs shit the bed! It's a good point though, backups aren't really backups unless they're tested... brb...

And RAID1 isn't a backup. If you delete a file accidently, it doesn't help you.

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

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Post by mdip »

nkcmr wrote: post #229

Love this thread, here is mine: Hardware: Synology NAS (DS420+) Software: - Synology DSM – Was actually quite impressed by Synology's software. It is a tad quirky but can usually be worked around but all in all pretty good. (https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm) - Plex: not in love, but it gets the job done, definitely gonna use this thread to look in to replacements (https://www.plex.tv/) - Syncthing: i love my magic…

   > cloudflared: effortless external access for all my stuff + all other Cloudflare goodies (WAF/Zero-Trust). Good piece of mind to not have to ever open ports on my local network and let CF just take the brunt of the Internet. Also used as a local PlaintextDNS=>DoH proxy that is hooked up to NextDNS (https://www.cloudflare.com/products/tunnel/).
I was a beta tester for Warp pre-launch and set my home server up to use it. I'll agree with you -- it was awesome. I stopped using it after the beta since it became metered (which was expected and I'm not sore about[0])

   > [disclaimer: I work for the big orange cloud company, so sorry if the previous sounds like an ad, I do really like the software we make]
I don't work for the big orange cloud company and I really like the software you make, I really enjoy reading your technical blogs and have routinely shared them with co-workers at past jobs[1]. I had a coworker solve a long-running issue on a pool of Linux front-end hosts by tweaking some kernel/network configuration settings -- he mentioned he got the idea from a blog post from the big orange cloud company that "he read over the weekend". I use your services for my home server and end up recommending (and ultimately using) it with every one of my customers. I'm sure you guys have pissed someone off by now, but everyone I encounter heaps praise on your products and company.

[0] Okay, maybe a little. It was a really neat service that I got to use for free for almost a year. A gentleman from Cloudflare (I think he said he worked in Romania) even sent me a gray T-Shirt with the big orange cloud company's logo on it in "Apple-style" minimalism.

[1] Programmers have gaps -- I'm surprised how many web developers' gaps are "everything between the various hosted files and The Browser".

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

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Post by bluGill »

asim wrote: 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.

That is the easy part. What I really want is someone to administer the upgrades for me. Make sure everything just works, and all security holes are closed. Too often I get things almost working perfect just as some software goes out of support, and next thing I know everything is broke again after I make one upgrade.

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

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Post by bluGill »

cm2187 wrote: post #242
guntherhermann wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For important documents (insurance docs, mortgage, etc) I use SyncThing, for media I use my RAID1 array. I'd certainly hope that RAID1 works as I expect it to if one of my HDDs shit the bed! It's a good point though, backups aren't really backups unless they're tested... brb...

And RAID1 isn't a backup. If you delete a file accidently, it doesn't help you.

I have snapshots on my NAS, so nothing is really deleted. I supposed in another 10 years I'll have to start pruning old files, but disks are cheap and I don't really have that much data.

For that matter I generally don't delete anything. If I save it to my computer odds are it is something I want to keep for the rest of my life (that is family pictures). There are a few distro images that I download once in a while and then delete, but for the most part disk is cheap, and I don't have time to delete old stuff.

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

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Post by jaredhallen »

I just upgraded my desktop computer for the first time since about 2010. I've been working on repurposing the old i5-750 based system as a home server. I picked up an old LSI raid card off eBay, and half a dozen budget 1TB SSD's which are setup in a RAID 6. So far, I have nginx with nextcloud, postfix for mail, and Jellyfin. And of course Samba for local file sharing. I also still have a pi 3b with a 1TB SSD running 64 bit ARM Ubuntu, which was my previous home server. It's still running DNS, which is actually setup split zone, so it serves not only my home network, but also public DNS for my domain. Nothing super fancy, but it works for me and has been fun to tinker with. I was able to recover a whole bunch of old media from a pile of drives in a storage tote that had been a RAID in a previous home server about ten years ago.

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

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Post by c0wb0yc0d3r »

AndroidKitKat wrote: post #224

I've got a slew of different computers doing different things. All of them are networked together via Tailscale. Ubuntu 22.04 Server for the host, everything else runs in LXC containers. This is all setup on ZFS. - https://znc.in/ IRC bouncer - https://caddyserver.com/ Caddy Webserver for a few personal websites - https://github.com/AndroidKitKat/waifupaste.moe/ My personal pastebin - https://transmissionbt.com/ Torr…

Do you automate your Linux ISO seeding? Like getting updated torrents when a new version is released. I have been thinking about this from time to time, and haven't come up with a solution other than scraping.
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