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

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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

    • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      I’d say not just starter… My rack is full of tiny/mini/micros. Proxmox on all, data on the three NAS boxes, easy to replace a box if needed (for example, the optiplex 7040 that the board died on).

      Way quieter than a regular rack, lower power use, etc. If all goes well following an intended move, I should be able to safely power it off solar + batt only. Grand total wattage for all these boxes is less than my desktop (when I last checked at least, I was running about 300-350W. I did swap two that have dgpu’s now, so maybe a touch higher).

  • eletes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    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

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • zod000@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 days ago

    If wanting to have cool oscilloscopes and blinkenlights is wrong then I don’t want to be right.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • Redex@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 days ago

    Here’s mine. Might need to repaste it tho, the fans are literally always running pretty noticably loudly and CPU temps are at ~49° even though it’s idiling all the time at max 1%-2% CPU usage.

    On a side note - is it normal for Redis to always be using 1-2% CPU even when there’s no traffic?

      • pezhore@infosec.pub
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        2 days ago

        I don’t know if I can completely explain the difference, but I would classify myself as a home labber not a self-hoster.

        I use Proton for email and don’t have any YouTube/Twitter/etc alt front ends. The majority of my lab (below) is storage and compute for playing around with stuff like Kubernetes and Ansible to help me with my day job skills. Very little is exposed to the Internet (mostly just a VPN endpoint for remote lab work).

        I view self-hosting as more of a, “let me put this stuff on the internet instead of of using a corporation’s gear” effort. I know folks who host their own Mastodon instance, have their own alt front ends for various social media, their own self-hoster search engines.

  • Prinz Kasper@feddit.org
    0·
    3 days ago

    I bought a cheap mini PC with an Intel N100 processor as my entry into self hosting, so far it absolutely crushes every task I’ve thrown at it

  • jroid8@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    How would you connect to your “server” when you don’t know it’s IP? With static IP or DNS or both?