Well of course I know him, he is me… I haven’t found a job yet but this post pretty much sums a lot my personal projects.

Not really easy to selfhost atm, but FOSS and we’ll get there eventually…

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Are they? I’ve never really ran one…

I have a big boi ProLiant DL380e Gen8 and it’s pretty good as long as you have a dedicated room for it as it’s really loud. If you get them for really cheap like I did (I got mine maxed out for less than 100$), then yeah it’s a good deal.

It’s not amazing on power consumption either with like 130W at idle… I’d imagine the smaller ones using use less power, but I wouldn’t count on it, as it is still old hardware. However, if the price is right, then it could absolutely be worth it… If you can withstand the noise.

And looking at the specs of the N36L, for the same price you could very easily scrounge together a custom build from 2nd hand parts, which will be quieter, faster and most likely use less power…

I feel like you have the wrong idea of what hacking acting a actually is… But yes, as long as you don’t do anything too stupid line forwarding all of your ports or going without any sort of firewall, the chances of you getting hacked are very low…

As for DDOSing, you can get DDOSed with or without self hosting all the same, but I wouldn’t worry about it.

People calling this a horrible UI have clearly never used SAP…

Doesn’t it stand for “supposed to be structured”?

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Check out this video

It goes over all of the steps of setting it up.

GPU passthrough has been pretty good for a while. The reason why Linus couldn’t get it working reliably was because iirc, he tried to do it on windows… I’ve done it before with a single gpu and have very recently set it up again, now that I have a 2nd one and gotta say, it’s pretty damn good…

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My hard drives are also 2nd hand and they’ve been reliable so far, I just generally know it’s bad practice…

My tip for saving money: buy as much as possible 2nd hand. You do not need the latest of latest gen hardware for a NAS/Homelab. This is excluding storage, and ESPECIALLY hard drives. Those you should absolutely buy new.

As for setting it up… My recommendation is to use TrueNAS scale with either RAIDz1 or RAIDz2, giving you either 1 or 2 drives of parity, in case something fails…

As for remote access, you can run a wireguard VPN server in a VM, allowing you to access it from anywhere, as long as you’re connected to said VPN.

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Idk if it has that, as I just run a SMB share to achieve the same functionality

Files-on-demand? Meaning… Sync or?

Nextcloud… It’s self hostable with a really good Mac app

Go on ebay or your local 2nd hand market and search “mini PC” or “Office computer”…

What is the point of paying for a VNC client when there are 100 other free VNC clients?

For my main server only… If HP iLO is to be believed, averaging around 130W.

Running: deluge, homarr, jellyfin, lidarr, navidrome, nextcloud, prowlarr, sonarr, whoogle and a minecraft server (VM) on TrueNAS Scale.

As for everything else (my router, switch and DNS/DHCP server, which is a separate machine, you can add another maybe 50W on top of it…