I bought a Synology and left it at that. I used to DIY everything but at some point the time spent wasn't worth it, and Synology is just so damn good.
Ask HN: What's on your home server?
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#322Local DNS/DHCP (with a raspberry pi for failover), Zabbix for monitoring devices troubleshooting Internet outages, Zoneminder as a front-end for the security cameras. But mainly, it's about my day-to-day, real-life, human-readable data and content, which I've tried to digitize as much as possible...
Email: Most of my email going back to the mid 90's. Available locally via IMAP or remotely via webmail.
Photos: new photos I take, plus scanned versions of old photos, organized by photographer and year. Shared via HTTP and DLNA
Audio: My entire music collection, in FLAC or MP3 format. Also a bunch of free music downloaded from Internet Archive and Musopen. Shared via HTTP and DLNA.
Video: All my home videos, including digitized Super8 films from my childhood. My entire collection of DVDs and VHS tapes (including shows taped off TV). Also, public domain movies downloaded from Internet Archive. Shared via HTTP and DLNA
Text: Scans of important documents, bills, bank statements, PDFs of the instruction manuals to most appliances and gadgets in the house. Scans of letters I received in college. eBooks. Interesting articles from the web or from periodicals. Public domain texts (Project Gutenberg, government publications, sheet music, textbooks). Shared via HTTP.
Software: ISOs of various old operating systems and applications. Netboot images for whatever OS I'm using on the desktop at the moment. Archives of old software. Drivers, ROMs, firmware, fonts. Shared via HTTP or TFTP where needed for OS installation over PXE.
While I've organized things in a pretty logical file hierarchy, I also use Yacy as a private search engine. It periodically crawls and indexes the file structure and categorizing results into collections, such as 'books' 'manuals' 'music' etc. to make searching easier.
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#323Outbound bandwidth has always been limited out here in the sticks and our inbound has only been "high bandwidth" for the last few years. For a while I was employed as a contractor and had to run all my own development environments locally and still do so I have more reason to not have an office at HQ.
- 2 x Xeon X5650s running Ubuntu as hypervisors and one acting as dnat router for our Starlink connection. Hypervisors include Asterisk, Invidious, staging mysql/dreamfactory, CIFS server. One trying to run yolov7 on docker with cuda on an external GPU. [edit] Forgot the Pihole kvm instance for all local DNS.
- 1 x GPD mini pc (4 core 8G Celeron n4100) with Homeassistant supervisor mode on Debian for Temp/humidity/pressure monitoring, AC compressor control, 110V AC Aqara Switches, remote Aqara buttons (outside lights, garbage disposal)
- 1 x Raspberry PI 4 iredmail running three SMTP/IMAP domains over Wireguard DNAT forwarding from Vultr public IP
- 1 x Raspberry PI 4 with 3x7TB USB drives for DNLA & CIFS
- 1 x Raspberry PI 4 with Octoprint on 3d printer
- 200AH lead acid battery bank with 12V/100A charger and 3kW inverter
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#324Locally: Synology NAS - dockers: - monitoring: grafana, prometheus, alertmanager, bunch of exporters - consul + consul registrator (as service discovery for docker) - gitea (personal git repo, with some mirroring github repos) - media stuff (jackett, radarr, sonarr, plex) - ci (jenkins) - datastores (postgres, mongo, redis) - rutorrent - saltstack (config management for all home systems) - syncthing (currently testin…
How easy is it to create a kubernetes cluster between local and cloud? Was thinking about doing this but was puzzled by how to bridge the network.
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#325For me: Jellyfin with all my movies, shows, home videos, and a film footage archive of content ripped from YouTube. I set this server up when a movie I wanted to watch was no longer on Netflix and I realized, in a few decades there’s a decent likelihood that many of my favorites will be hard to find on streaming services or I’ll have to subscribe to several services to get the collection I want. I’ve had it running for years now and it’s one of my favorite things. I share access to it with my friends and family, so they benefit as well. Only issue I had to get around was with steaming 4k video. For some reason, the official Jellyfin apps try to transcode 4k video live rather than just streaming it directly, and my low-CPU NAS really struggles to keep up with that, so I’d resorted to paying for Infuse Pro as the front end for my server, which does stream 4k without transcoding. In all it’s just a NAS with ngrok running in a docker container running Jellyfin and a Caddy reverse proxy. Highly recommend this setup to anyone interested in building a media server! It feels good to actually own some digital content in the age of Spotify and Netflix.
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#326# Work - https://gitea.io (repos) - https://discourse.org (forums) - https://github.com/nektos/act (CI) - https://www.goatcounter.com (analytics) - https://bestpractical.com/request-tracker (support) - https://couchdb.apache.org (a slave db to backup https://rxdb.info [client db]) - deps: nginx, redis, postgres, mqtt # Life - https://matrix.org (comms) - https://www.teamspeak.com (p2p voip for gaming) - https://nextc…
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.
I'm Jellyfin-curious, and hear a lot about it, but I'm not really unhappy with Plex, and it passes the family-user test with ease. How easy it for the techno-novice to use Jellyfish? I think Plex's biggest advantage is it's already everywhere, from browser to smart TV. How does Jellyfin compare there?
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#327I have an Intel Nuc running Ubuntu, and an ASUS router that I installed the WRT Merlin firmware on. The NUC is running K3S, which I installed to learn Kubernetes, mostly. I don't really need it, tbh. NGINX + apps as systemd services would work just fine.
The most useful thing I use it for is exposing the test environment on my laptop to a local DNS so I can test on mobile and other computers. It also serves as a location to point backups to. Additionally, I point a sub domain off my website to a small service I expose for file sharing with friends. It's not accepting requests all the time though. Just when I have something to put up there.
Would like to put movies and music on it eventually to stream to the rest of my network.
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#328Dell 720R running Proxmox.
various VMs and containers:
pfSense pihole Plex Homeassistant Subsonic (music server) virtual desktops for various purposes (keeps things isolated) syncthing (to move backups offsite) guacamole ephemeral VMs for testing/learning ~25Tb of storage in various RAID configurations for media and backups
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#329The real need of any home server has really dissapeard now when there are cheap services for everything and all of them do it better than any setup am willing to dedicate my time on. If you really want something just buy a cheap NAS and it will run everything you want with minimal setup. Unless you want to learn how to setup a server ie "home lab", but then its more cheaper and more efficient to rent a cheap vm on li…
Really depends on what you're doing re: homelab. Linode's pricing is still way more than what you're gonna pay for your own hardware at just about any tier. My home server is 16 core/64 GB and I use most of that to host stuff. It cost about $1250 in parts and about $10/mo in electricity. Linode's monthly pricing for a dedicated instance 16 core/32 gig shared CPU is $160/mo, so the breakeven point is around a year for slightly worse hardware. I expect to get at least 5 years of use out of this hardware so it's not even close.
Even on the lower end a recycled mini-PC will run you like 100 bucks and get you 8 core/8 GB memory and negligible power. Versus the cheapest Linode plan at $5/mo for 1 core/1 GB. That's more competitive and might work for some people but even then self-host is still viable. Your own time is valuable of course, but most of the time in my experience is not dealing with the hardware itself, it's setting up the software and maintaining it. Which you still have to do with Linode.
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#330Jellyfin (video), Navidrome (audio), Deluge, Paperless (document management), tt-rss, Wallabag (web clipping/archiving), Huginn, Syncthing+restic+rclone for backups, and I host a static blog generated with Jekyll.
I see Navidrome mentioned a lot. Why use that instead of just Jellyfin?