cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24850430
EDIT: i had an rpi it died from esd i think
EDIT2: this is also my work machine and i sleep to the sound of the fans
the best home server is a computer you’re not using, the second best home server is a bajillion dollar server rack you looted from behind a meta LLM farm
I went overboard but only because I was having fun with it and didn’t like the octopus of hard drives plugged into my NUC
w520 goes hard. Still a very capable machine with the sheer amount of cpu horsepower it has from that era.
Not comparable to modern chips of course, but for what you can get those things for, damn it’s not bad.
How is it overkill? Those are just PCs in rack cases. For all you know, they could be $150 budget builds made of decade old hardware bought off eBay.
i’m ok with that as soon as they serve the idea of self hosting it depends on how big you want the project want to be
Check out r/homedatacenter
My only “server” is a modest DS218+ which runs more mainstream services that I see in those huge ass servers like in the pic, what am I missing? (I have 6 GBs of RAM):
- Arr stack (Bazarr, Sonarr, Radarr, Overseerr, Prowlarr)
- Plex
- Calibre and Calibre web
- DizqueTV
- Dozzle
- Flaresolverr
- Heimdall
- Iperf3 server
- JDownloader2
- Komga
- Openspeedrest
- Pi-hole
- Plex-Auto-Languages (for the Synology PMS and my Nvidia Shield TV Pro)
- PlexTraktSync
- Portainer
- Qbittorrent
- Riven/Rclone/Zurg
- Speedtest
- Tautulli (X2)
- Vaultwarden
- Zerotier
Everything is silent and running with Docker, aside from a bunch of stock Synology services (and Tailscale), I really feel like the only reason to own better hardware is for a better transcoding experience… And usually you don’t want to transcode.
