Comment on "Upgrading" my Home Server setup
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 4 weeks ago
Having several older PCs running 24/7 will cost you a lot of electricity. I would probably try to consolidate all of the things which really need to run 24/7 on one machine and put then the other stuff on machines which I can do wake on LAN on them when necessary.
Jellyfin for example does not need to run 27/7 you can wake it up when you or other users want to watch something. The webserver on the other hand needs to run 24/7 but is fairly lightweight.
I have a NAS but I don’t really use it for much just small things like grafana and a second picture backup from the phones, because the old synology is not powerful enough for things like paperless, Immich, etc. So those things I run on my PC which I can WOL.
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 4 weeks ago
I am trying to decide how to balance services, but running all 3 slightly less old computers will be less costly than the 2 very old computers I am currently running, due to them being on newer processor architecture.
I was definitely planning to have at least 2 running 24/7 though, specifically for having 2 pihole instances running, as well as having headscale and my tailscale exit node on separate devices (so that devices like my phone are still covered by the pihole).
For things like pinhole a small device like a raspberry pi is enough
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 4 weeks ago
I am fully aware of that, but i have free PCs, and no money for buying brand new dedicated equipment, so its going in a VM or two.
I’m not using it myself but Proxmox sounds like something you could get good use out of.