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

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Post by blodkorv »

gh02t wrote: post #329
blodkorv wrote: post #273

The 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…

Do you really use all of that computing power for the stuff that is running on the server. All of the home lab setups i have seen have been way over powered and under used. Lots of "wasted" computing power to just be powered on and never really utilized.

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

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Post by venatiodecorus »

privacywiki wrote: post #260

I have two raspberry pi's 8gb, with SSDs. Running Portainer for Docker management. I have everything containerized with docker-compose. - Most importantly, Cloudflare tunnel for exposing my services without opening ports on my router. - Tor relay (non-exit) - Pi-hole for DNS and ad blocking - Homepage dashboard - Audibookshelf - Jackett - Sonarr - Radarr - Jellyfin - qBittrorrent - Backup Pi-hole - Uptime Kuma Monito…

you use portainer but "have everything containerized with docker-compose". am i missing something regarding portainer that supports compose files, or do you run containers via compose files and use portainer for monitoring/logging and such?

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

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Post by lucb1e »

icybox wrote: post #353
loudmax wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There's just one slightly opaque pitfall, not all laptops have a BIOS setting where you can specify what to do on power-loss and power-resume. So the laptop "server" stays off and you need to intervene manually. I've had better luck with thin clients ...

Never had power out for long enough that the laptop didn't survive. Automatic shutdown of optional services at 80% battery level might also mean that it survives 2-3x as long, if this sort of thing is likely to hit where you live. Or buy a tiny UPS.

(One of the major advantages of laptops not manufactured in the last 3 years: replacing the battery to make it good as new takes 15 seconds. Click out, click in. They don't make 'em like that anymore :( )

If the battery were to run out: on 355 of the 365 days per year, there will be someone home who can push the button within a few hours.

And if it's one of the 10 other days: email will retry for 24 hours and everything else is somewhat optional for me. I can call someone to get there within a day, or change the DNS records and turn on a VPS to temporarily buffer the incoming SMTP. I considered my contingency options but never got close to needing it.

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

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Post by trympet »

- Sonarqube

- Github Actions agent for Linux

- Tons of Elasticsearch (6x)

- NVR software

- Haproxy (2x)

- Scvmm

- Unifi controller

- Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett, Transmission, Ombi

- Nextcloud

- Nginx for work stuff (2x)

- Plex

- Various Windows dev boxes

- Mikrotik CHR

- Github Actions agent for Windows

- Librenms

- Docker registry

- Openhab

- Zeek and Suricata

- Syslog-ng

- Windows domain controller (2x)

I'm about to run out of RAM :(

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

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Post by ohthehugemanate »

karlshea wrote: post #427
ohthehugemanate wrote: post #419

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As I mentioned elsewhere, check the details of that transcode you tried. Are you doing tone mapping? That happens on the CPU (even with many discrete GPUs). Is it in a supported container format? Did you validate that the GPU was being used for the transcode? Other 10th gen I5 users get multiple simultaneous 4k streams going at > 1x speed. Even with tone mapping it should only use like 45% CPU for a single stream. Un…

Or I could just solve the problem by putting an old 1070 in the box and not have to babysit something I have literally zero interest in.

Sure, it's always cheaper to use the hardware you've got than to buy something new! And you don't lose much: AV1 and VP9 compatibility the same, and probably your home doesn't use more than NVIDIA's maximum of 3 simultaneous transcodes anyway. And IIRC that's about the maximum 4k transcode throughput of a 1070 regardless.

Personally I moved from NVIDIA to quicksync exactly because I felt NVIDIA required too much babysitting. Driver compatibility, interactive mode updates, patches and patch compatibility... In comparison the intel driver felt like a cake walk. But you should definitely go with your own comfort level, especially for the price point!

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

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Post by mastax »

TrueNAS.

Has a jail running InfluxDB, Grafana, and Mosquito to monitor the TrueNAS metrics and my IoT sensors.

Has a Ubuntu VM for the TP-Link Omada management software. (It's not terrible but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it)

I used to have more ambitions but installing and maintaining software has become a chore.

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

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Post by karlshea »

ohthehugemanate wrote: post #435
karlshea wrote: post #427

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or I could just solve the problem by putting an old 1070 in the box and not have to babysit something I have literally zero interest in.

Sure, it's always cheaper to use the hardware you've got than to buy something new! And you don't lose much: AV1 and VP9 compatibility the same, and probably your home doesn't use more than NVIDIA's maximum of 3 simultaneous transcodes anyway. And IIRC that's about the maximum 4k transcode throughput of a 1070 regardless. Personally I moved from NVIDIA to quicksync exactly because I felt NVIDIA required too much baby…

> NVIDIA required too much babysitting

This is on a headless box so thankfully I've never run into any of those issues, I just install their driver and pass the GPU through to my Docker container.

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

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Post by LeoPanthera »

sorenjan wrote: post #407
LeoPanthera wrote: post #341

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All of my Raspberry Pis netboot, which means I never have to worry about a card burning out, and I can change what they boot into by just renaming a symlink on the server.

Can you netboot from a desktop computer that's not always on? If the desktop is running when the pi is booting, does the pi then need the "server" (desktop pc) again until it needs to reboot?

No, because the root filesystem is mounted by NFS.

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

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Post by gwbas1c »

juniperplant wrote: post #288
gwbas1c wrote: post #233

Define "home server." Consumer-grade NASes are so powerful they can pretty much do anything you'd do with a "home server." On my smart TVs, I installed Kodi. I have an off-the-shelf NAS that serves the files via NFS. It can do Plex, if that's your cup of tea. (But I prefer Kodi, because most of things I do are audiophile grade and I don't want the kind of transcoding that Plex does.) The NAS is basically a super-powe…

What NAS do you have?

Synology
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