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

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Post by CommieBobDole » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:03 PM UTC

Lots of stuff; my 'home server' is probably a little more elaborate than a lot of people would want to deal with. I bought a 42u rack years ago and stuck it in my basement, and it's got a bunch of old enterprise-type hardware in it. It contains:

Hardware:

- ESXi vSphere server

- Old ESXi vSphere server (being decommissioned) - pfSense firewall

- Big NFS/CIFS storage server (60TB)

- Windows workstation/gaming desktop (lives in a rack-mount case connected to a KVM; cables run upstairs to my 'office')

- Linux workstation (also on KVM)

VMs include:

- Linux dev server for miscellaneous projects

- Pi-hole DNS

- Personal Gitlab

- Personal wiki

- Plex

- k8s dev environment for a defunct project that I haven't deleted in case it becomes un-defunct for some reason.

- Suricata/Zeek IDS

- Windows domain controller, for reasons

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

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Post by rr888 » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:05 PM UTC

I used to love having a server at home but started running less and less, now I'm just worried about potential security holes and will probably stop it.

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

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Post by 4ggr0 » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:07 PM UTC

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #214

4ggr0 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Been using Jellyfin almost since it forked from Emby. Was a bit rough early on, but works a treat for me these days - I think there's a balance point where I've adapted myself to its idiosyncrasies as much as it has improved stability and compatibility throughout version upgrades. I primarily use it via the Android TV app, and it's been a pretty smooth experience for at least the last couple of years.

I had to use my TVs internal (amazingly slow) web browser to access Jellyfin. Until a couple of months ago, when I was surprised with them announcing that they will release a Jellyfin app for LG WebOS. Works great, the only slightly annoying thing is that they don't seem to cache the posters. Every time I scroll through my library, all the posters load again.

Other than that, the things which don't quite work for me:

- Jellyfin is useless on my Android phone. Media with 5.1 sound is severely broken, I can only hear the background noise, the actual dialog is just barely hearable. Could be a config issue on my end, but I haven't found out what the issue is. Now I just download stuff and watch it in VLC. Works, but it's not the best UX.

- Sometimes when I add a lot of content, the metadata gathering seems to be stuck. I can refresh the libraries, refresh a single item, but nothing seems to work. Then, after a couple of hours, it magically starts to pull all the metadata and is done in a couple of minutes.

Else - I enjoy it very much. Even donated some money, which I do (too) rarely for OSS.

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

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Post by holsta » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:08 PM UTC

CommieBobDole wrote: post #261

Lots of stuff; my 'home server' is probably a little more elaborate than a lot of people would want to deal with. I bought a 42u rack years ago and stuck it in my basement, and it's got a bunch of old enterprise-type hardware in it. It contains: Hardware: - ESXi vSphere server - Old ESXi vSphere server (being decommissioned) - pfSense firewall - Big NFS/CIFS storage server (60TB) - Windows workstation/gaming desktop…

> - Windows workstation/gaming desktop (lives in a rack-mount case connected to a KVM; cables run upstairs to my 'office')

I am thinking about doing this. What cables are you running and what display resolution is the system running? I am thinking I could get away with a single DP cable for 4K display and a powered USB cable going to a USB hub.

Do you have a KVM you would recommend?

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

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Post by codazoda » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:08 PM UTC

I run Nolific on my Raspberry Pi, giving me a place to store all my random writing. It’s my super simple second brain tool that runs in a browser tab.

https://www.nolific.com

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

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Post by javajosh » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:09 PM UTC

Great question, as I've started running a home server (and gaming computer) recently. A corollary: what anti-malware software do peeps use now on Windows? I'm interested in both prevention and cleanup.

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

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Post by wildekek » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:10 PM UTC

HP Elitedesk 800 g6 mini running Proxmox (compute and SSD storage)

  - Home Assistant
  - Docker
    - cloudflared
    - traefik
    - authelia
    - unifi controller
    - jellyfin
    - arr stack
    - influx
    - grafana
  - OSX (runs only when needed)
  - Win11 (runs only when needed)

QNAP TS251+ (RAID1 storage)

RaspBerry Pi (print server)

  printers:
    - HP Laserjet
    - Dymo Labelprinter
    - 3D Printer
  software:
    - Cupsd
    - Klipper
    - klipperscreen
    - Moonraker
    - Mainsail

I really like my setup, although in the future I would like to investigate some form of redundancy, since my home starts to rely more and more on Home Assistant.

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

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Post by rookderby » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:12 PM UTC

In my home I use a Synology NAS for local home files, organizing pdf libraries, backing up GOG and steam games, mirroring google drive. I also backup my home folders with Vorta and Borg. I used to backup Fedora RPMs based on what I had installed, but since switching to openSUSE I haven't mirrored any of their repos. Thanks to capableweb's comment I'm going to go do that now!

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

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Post by caseysoftware » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:13 PM UTC

I'm mostly finished rebuilding mine and very happy with it.

Right now, it's just Plex & Next Cloud available within my network but Home Assistant is next on the agenda to tie into my devices. I also have Dropbox to keep a couple of the folders in sync so I can drop files on any computer and it will come back to there. I'm looking into some Ubiquity cameras & security too.

All of it is fronted by ngrok - with Google OAuth for auth - to make it available to the select people in the outside world.

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

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Post by mbreese » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:13 PM UTC

public_defender wrote: post #185

cantagi wrote: post #137

I have 3 rpi4s running my entire home network. One is a vpn router and a wifi AP, it also has Uptime Kuma. I need this to be reliable and rarely touch it except to improve its reliability. - Openvpn - HostAPD - Uptime Kuma (in docker) - A microservice invoked from Uptime Kuma that monitors connectivity to my ISPs router (in docker) - nginx, not in docker, reverse proxies to Uptime Kuma The second acts as a NAS and ha…

I have been thinking of setting up a pi4 as a wifi AP. Can you comment on the hardware performance? I am worried that the range or throughput might be poor, and thinking I might need to use an Intel ax200 or similar.

I've done this before and it works in a pinch, but I didn't think it was reliable enough to use on a permanent basis. I added a USB WiFi interface, and that helped with the signal quite a bit. Setting up the AP and networking isn't trivial (but is certainly do-able if you're familiar with linux networking).

My use case was using it to connect my family's devices to an AirBNB network. I used the Rpi as a bridge to the host WiFi. This way I could keep a common SSID/password and didn't have to reconfigure all of my kid's devices. It kinda worked.

However, it wasn't very reliable and had poor range and performance. The Rpi was meh with one client attached, but it was bleh with more than one. I ended up replacing it quickly with a cheap dedicated AP that I flashed with openwrt. Much easier, and device-wise was cheaper too.