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

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Post by ohthehugemanate »

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…

Your hypothetical new plex box does not need a discrete GPU. Plex makes really good use of Intel Quick Sync, and transcode quality has been indistinguishable or better than NVIDIA since about 5th gen. A Celeron G4900 (8th-gen dual core, 3300 passmark) has been benched as capable of 21 simultaneous 1080p transcodes.[0]

TL;DR: pick up a NUC knockoff with an >8th gen celeron or i3; it'll handle anything a casual household can throw at it.

[0] https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/guide-hardware-transcoding... this is far and away the most comprehensive hardware guide for plex servers.

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

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Post by nixgeek »

keraf wrote: post #148
jstummbillig wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who gets caught in the occasional "could you just fix x – what do you mean y is not working? It always worked before you got here"-trap, essentially signing up to run your parents entire smart home setup, indefinitely, feels like some special kind of hell.

My choice with their new house was pretty simple. They wanted a smart home, and being the tech son I would inevitably have to help them at some point. So either I debug a system that is open and familiar, with remote access and reliable software/hardware. Or I deal with some closed proprietary trash which will end-up with me on the phone with some incompetent cash grab company. As mentioned in my post, the latter wou…

There’s another aspect though - when you come to sell the home it’s easy to market Crestron, Control4 and others specifically because they are standard (albeit expensive) solutions and have a whole ecosystem of consultants who can be brought in to diagnose and fix issues, upgrade stuff.

With DIY you are usually left with at best ripping it all out and selling it without any “Smart Home” promises, you can I guess still market that it has structured cabling to enable smarts though?

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

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Post by AndroidKitKat »

c0wb0yc0d3r wrote: post #249
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.

I pretty much update things manually when I think of it (usually every ~2 months or so) or when I am downloading a new version for whatever reason (like to flash yet another computer I picked up). I've been looking for something to do in my downtime , so I might see if I can whip something up to automate updates, could be a fun project.

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

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Post by lxgr »

I've been using a Raspberry Pi as a home server, and it's been holding up amazingly well, given everything I've thrown at it:

- The excellent Home Assistant, for unifying across Homekit and Google Home and tracking historical temperatures and a couple of automations. The RPi has Bluetooth built in, so I can capture the data from a few Bluetooth thermometer/hygrometers running custom firmware (https://github.com/pvvx/ATC_MiThermometer) without a 802.15.4 bridge or similar.

- An AirPlay to Google Cast bridge, mainly for listening to Overcast or the occasional YouTube video on Google speakers (without subscribing to Youtube Premium/Music)

- A SMB server, for file storage and potential Time Machine backups (but I don't currently have enough storage, and locally attached SSDs are just hard to beat in terms of performance)

- A DLNA server, for watching photos and videos on my TV

- Tailscale, for the occasional use of my home connection as a VPN when traveling (really glad to be having symmetric fiber for this!)

- Caddy, as a frontend for everything web facing, to benefit from its excellent Let's Encrypt integration for automatic certificate requests and renewals

Most of this is running in Docker containers and configured via Ansible, so that if the microSD card burns out (or I botch an OS update), I can just flash a new one with an empty image and recover from there.

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

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Post by armoredkitten »

I've got a bunch of stuff, all running in Docker:

- Nextcloud for file syncing and sharing, syncing photos/contacts/calendar from my phone, and Joplin notes

- Pi-hole for ad-blocking

- Jellyfin for media

- Miniflux for RSS reader

- Tandoor Recipes for recipes and grocery list

- Archivebox for saving local copies of sites I want to keep in case they disappear someday

- Navidrome for music (this is still something I'm testing)

- Send (fork of the deceased Firefox Send)

- Grafana/InfluxDB plus some custom scripts for monitoring

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

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Post by jstrong »

I have a server rack in my basement, with a few different machines. One is a storage server with a zfs array. Another is a 1u with lots of cores.

> What are you doing with your home server?

So much stuff. But the reason I have a servers at home is not because it's practical, it's because I love computers and making them go fast. The one's in my basement are often used for performance experiments.

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

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Post by Nursie »

Intel i3-8100 with a 6-disk ZRAID2 SSD array, running …

A git repo which acts as a document backup/upstream for my company records and allows me to keep history/records across multiple other devices.

Git repos for various personal projects like my e-ink/rp2040 thing.

Time Machine backup from my MacBook (samba + some config).

DLNA media server

VPN server (strongswan) and associated certificate authority.

Errrr… that’s about it for now. Pretty boring!

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

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Post by cableshaft »

capableweb wrote: post #230

Rather than listing everything I'm hosting at my home server, I'll just share what saved me the most time, repeatedly: Mirrors of various package repositories I use. I'm currently mirroring npm, crates, Arch packages, clojars, maven and some other things, then all my machines (desktop, servers and laptops) point to the mirror rather than directly to upstream. Some of them are mirroring dynamically (basically a cache…

How much space does it take to mirror npm currently? Tried finding that online but not sure where to look.

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

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Post by rolisz »

cranium wrote: post #172

I have a small K3S cluster of RPIs and a Synology NAS. I don't trust the RPIs to store any meaningful data so I use the NAS to store and backup everything. The cluster can request persistent volumes and they are automatically created and exposed via NFS by the NAS. On the NAS, it's mostly storage services: - MinIO (S3 compatible) - Postgres - InfluxDB - Syncthing - Plex (NAS has hardware encoding) - Print/scan server…

What accounting service do you use?
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