Submitted 5 months ago by bpt11@reddthat.com to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://tilvids.com/w/fPxET73wf5m5vEXg7h4vgK
Hi there! This is a video that I made that I’m hoping can act as a beginner friendly entry level point to the world of self hosting and running a homelab. Just thought I’d share in case anyone is interested, and I hope it can be a resource to share with noobies. I don’t claim to be an expert at all so I’d also love some feedback. Thanks!
Dad said we’re getting a sourcebox!
Every time I spin one up. I spend weeks setting things and playing with it. And then never use it again until I get bored and rebuild it.
I set up my home server, the. Realized my Internet is shit and my upload speeds can’t even steam 1 4k movie, let alone several at once.
I am not excited to triple my monthly Internet bill for better upload speeds, but it will have to happen soon.
Set one up as a cache of things you like. Have it fetch things with punch flat and filter out the ads. Then you can watch whatever you want even after Google takes it down for no reason.
I’m more worried about my electricity bill tbh. Low-power devices aren’t easily available and the second hand market is crap in my area.
IMO 4k resolution is overkill its way past the optimal between file storage and visual fidelity. Nobody has ever complained about the visual quality of my 720p or 1080p sourced stuff. Bhack in my day we were lucky to get 480p on a square box tv.
Just get a service that can download the movie from ur sever and then watch it offline.
I would gladly spend more for better (10mbit up atm) but all the upgrades get me to like 25 up and that’s it. I have no incentive to spend more for basically nothing. I hate it.
Everyone is a really, really big target
The first disclaimer in the video is the most relatable thing I’ve read in a while
Thanks for using peer tube
How beneficial is connecting via ethernet instead of wifi? My wifi mesh pods only have 1 ethernet out port, so I use it for my desktop. Not sure if I could split it or not, but I imagine if I did it’d slow down my desktop’s internet connection, which I’d rather not do.
A switch won’t slow anything at home.
It’s super cheap and literally plug and play.
I can’t be sure since technology has so many different factors, but splitting a single Ethernet out into multiple with a network switch won’t really affect it much if at all. Cat5e cable/jack (common for most cables) gets 1 gigabit, so unless you have a gigabit connection and maxing out the connections already, you shouldn’t notice it.
As for WiFi, even though a lot of newer technology is great, it’s not going to beat Ethernet.
Good to know, thanks! I did just upgrade to a gigabit fiber connection, but you’re right that I’m not usually maxing that out.
We should have never lost the capability to have LAN parties for all games.
You still can. By setting up a VPN.
Though it doesnt bring to couch closer.
Just yesterday I wiped the drive and installed Linux on the 3rd old PC for the LAN setup I’m putting together, literally “for the children!”
It’s an i7-920 from 2008. It has TRIPLE channel ram, baby. I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon and it was as quick and painless as usual.
I already get the warm fuzzies when I walk into the room and find my 3rd grader playing on my PC instead of their tablet or even the console. Our first LAN party is gonna be sweet.
I used to dream once that I would be able to give my future son Q4OS to grow up with and if a daughter, something like PuppyOS. Alas, I’m a single 30-something guy living in his parent’s basement with no real prospects of owning my own home or getting laid—so go figure. At least somebody out there is living the dream! 🤝
You’re spitting rn
Agreed. It’s time my occasional minecraft/PZomboid server got a nextcloud upgrade.
is tilvids overloaded right now? I can barely watch the video. also I don’t see the peer traffic indicators, has p2p distribution been turned off?
Hosting email just saved the day! My ex got locked out of her email account and password resets were blocked. However she still had one “home” email configured as a recovery address, so we were able to redirect it somewhere accessible and unlock her email account!
I just have my old PC’s running Linux connected directly to the tv or projector.
I use a super basic webdav server or free^arr matey^ streaming sites.
I sometimes sftp into devices.
That’s my setup.
I pay for netflix… dumped prime a couple of years ago and got given disney+ for free for 12 months. I have my own server and am on version 3.2 of it after my first dedicated one I built in 2009. I’ve kinda had others before then, but it was an old PC I hooked up to my old CRT tv in about 2002 which struggled to play some mpeg2 content due to the weak single core CPU it had in it.
Now it’s running on an AM4 setup with a Ryzen 5 5600G, so I can use the PCIE socket that used to have a GPU in it for a SATA expansion card, so that I can triple the number of HDD’s it could hold. I’m slowly going through it once a year replacing the oldest 6TB drives (without about 80,000+hrs of uptime on them) with 14TB archive drives I rip out of seagate external drives. 4 more to go… to add to the 4 already done.
I think my first dedicated server had 3TB of storage (2x 1.5TB) and I still have one of those drives in an external drive that I use occasionally to fill with movies and shows when I go away and take one of my shield tv boxes with me… but mostly I take an external 500gb ssd as it doesn’t require a power supply and I rarely have enough time to watch 1TB of movies and shows whilst away.
Over the last 15yrs, it’s been rebuilt a few times and upgrade many… adding extra drives, swapping out CPU’s and so on. 3 ground up builds with the last one being built in 2020… Normally when I build a new system for myself, the mediaserver gets upgraded with my old parts… Hence the last one being on windows 7 and an AMD FX 8350 with DDR3 ram until mid 2020.
Currently about 70TB capacity.
My next one will have a dedicated raid setup with parity… it’s the one thing I’ve never been able to do with such a random collection of different size drives… hence normalizing them all to the same kind of 14TB ones.
Pffft, I don’t trust meself with me own dater. Gon’ lose it all in a jiffy, fr fr
Pretty understandable fear tbh I’m not quite sure I trust myself with mine yet
The key is to find another friend on another continent and you store a copy of their shit and they store a copy of your shit.
but why tho?
If everyone had a friend that had a server we coulddp some fun stuff with federation and decentralization. Decentralized federated social networks without spam and without much need for moderation. Backup (I’ve always wanted to offer friends a family a backup service. I’d like to have a friend with a server so that I can backup my backups on their sever and in exchange they can do the same on mine). Almost free hosting (if I have my own home server I could provide friends with the option to host their static site for free which could be acceded by any server on the federated network
that makes sense
My entire life is Linux and self hosted, aside from Email. I may get to that one day too. Love my Plex server, even with the more recent baloney the company’s apparently been up to.
I should be using Jellyfin but once I get home from work I don’t want to tinker any more, I just wanna play a game or dick around.
Agree with the message in the video, these companies should be told to pound sand the minute they do a single anti-consumer thing.
Is there a way around the problem that plex only feeds from ex fat/nt drives but Linux has permission issues networking such a drive? I wanted to have one computer where I’m doing all the formatting and the other being the standalone plex server with them both connected. Samba is being a pain.
Curious about your problem. I’m using NFS instead of samba now, but legitimately never faced any problems doing what you’re describing previously.
I set up jellyfin recently. Haven’t tinkered with it any more than plex to be fair
I have my own server and it’s great, but the real product these streaming services sell isn’t access to content—it’s discoverability and recommendations. We need a better solution for that!
Tbh, I pretty much never use site recommendations. I almost always learn of shows and movies via social media and memes
Yeah I use jellyseerr with jellyfin and they work great together
I need to learn more about the *arr stack.
I want a future where communities self host their media and circumvent media companies like Netflix and Disney. Local film clubs, TV clubs, hobbyists, etc. can come together and host as a collective bringing down costs and making this more accessible.
We can do this, once we transition to socialism, and cut out the corporations. Run nodes on the community-owned fiber for free access to the citizens.
What media do you think you’ll be getting under socialism with no corporations? Lol
Who’s making the media?
Okay, so you don’t even need a socialist system for this, just a moderately sane government. Even here in Estonia, the government hands out funding for cultural projects. Now this is still a capitalist society, so you likely can’t get full funding for a big project.
In an actual socialist economy, the government will give you full funding for projects. The actors and everyone else working on a movie or TV show have guaranteed income that’s enough to live their lives, guaranteed living accommodations, etc, so they’re more likely to do it as a passion project, but they could still be paid as extra motivation. Funding is still required for equipment, etc. Unless you go fully money free as a society, in which case you ask the government to assign equipment to you.
The same people who already make the media. Just cut out the corporate middle-men, who soak up all the profit and contribute nothing to the content.
I just imagine a federated, YouTube-like platform. Except better in literally every single way. You are a member of your local community instance, and thereby connected with every other federated instance throughout the world.
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine a reality outside our own.
There are a lot of independent creators out there too.
Like ham radio ppl
A home server with digital services (from mail to cloud) as we got wired phones back in our timeline, most of the time up, possible terminal of our own and able to unplug at will
That’s a pretty vague title. What kind of server? I run emby. I also run a ton of other servers.
did you try clicking the link?
A 30 minute be video is a big ask when I don’t know what it’s going to be about
This is a 32 minute video that starts with a text card and robo voice. Is there any kind of summary? I don’t have a home server and don’t know what I’d do with one if I had it tbf. I have several vps and other hosted servers and find them much less hassle than a home server. But, maybe I’m missing out on something.
Every video guide should be only suppliemtary to a complete text article
Ai will summarise it if you watch in edge.
Honestly I was in the same boat. I ended up just buying a raspberry pie and following the dead simple tutorials on this site and now I can stream my audiobooks or TV wherever the hell I want
Again though, why a server? I don’t understand the concept of streaming really (I mean why I would want it, not how it works). I have some music files but they are on my laptop’s internal SSD (plus a few on my phone). No need for streaming. The idea of a server is generally to run some network services 24/7, or serve multiple clients, or have more hardware resources than would normally be found on a client PC. I don’t see a raspberry pi at home helping with much of that.
I guess I could imagine wanting some kind of centralized media server at home if there were multiple people using it, but it’s just me, and I’m generally not into video so I don’t have a huge video library or anything like that.
Persist with the video! The text-to-speech is only for a couple of quick screens - the rest is very personal, and they cover a bunch of use cases.
If you really don’t want to, the server OS they recommend around two-thirds of the way through is YunoHost, a beginner-friendly way to run services as containers on any capable spare computer. The YunoHost website has a bunch of use cases that are also covered in the video.
I’m pretty comfortable running Debian on servers. I just don’t understand why I’d want the hardware at home instead of remote. I don’t have much space at ome, and my home internet is crappy.
The main difference is that having a home server means You are in complete control over Your data. You can run home server and isolate it from the internet, running only on local network. Great for privacy and You are not relying on some external provider being reliable and available.
It also has it’s downsides. You have to maintain the server, keeping it up-to-date. Checking if some components need upgrading or replacing - which is mainly about having healthy drives so You do not loose all Your data.
The main difference is that having a home server means You are in complete control over Your data. You can run home server and isolate it from the internet, running only on local network. Great for privacy and You are not relying on some external provider being reliable and available.
I my a laptop for that, no remote access, I mean what services would I want to run and what would the clients be?
“loose all your data” yeah i hate when my data gets loose and out of the specific drives i put it on
Started my own hime server about a year or so ago. Currently hosting Immich for me and my gf. Jellyfin for archiving movies shows and downloaded YT videos. Forgejo for local git where I backup my work. Homeassistant to manage lights in the appartment and some othe small stuff. Linkwarden to archive important websites and links I might need in the future (docs for work, how-tos for the server itself so I dont loose all that setup kbowledge). Syncthing to sync files between multiple devices - which is awesome, easy to setup and pair folders. Seafile to share files.
It has been great, it draws around 20-30W idle.
I am currently in search for Obsidian and Bitwarden self hosted alternative that can be run in docker container - if anyone has some ideas I am all ears.
Obsidian and Bitwarden self hosted alternative that can be run in docker container.
Well not 100% sure about Docker but Tiddlywiki is pretty easily hosted! It’s got some quirks, but in the end it’s just an HTML file (or slightly more complex if hosted as a website), so it should stay relevant for a long time. I enioy making notebooks with it for various things!
Nextcloud has a pretty decent passwords manager and I think firefox plugins for it. I personally use SyncThing to sync KeePass databases and use the nextcloud passwords app for low-risk things we share, like streaming service passwords. :)
I often see LogSeq, and to a lesser extent Silver Bullet, mentioned as self-hostable alternatives to Obsidian that people actually appreciate using.
You can selfhist bitwarden. Or use vaultwarden.
I use Bitwardens self hosted option, VaultWarden, that I run in a docker. works fine. I use it with the bitwarden CLI since I’m using QuteBrowser on all my machines. I then run a weekly backup of my vaultwarden to an external ssd.
Beauty of it is that it will also work with Bitwardens extension on chrome or firefox. So if I’m on another machine and I need access to my PW’s I can just install the extension, add my self-hosted vaultwarden, then remove it when i’m done.
I’d urge u to retitle to:
How I host my home server
I had PTSD over that phrase, and how many naïve self starters got doxed, swatted, murdered, thrashed, DoS, pwnd, bitlocked, sued, deISPd, excomm.d, raided, wormed, subpoenaed, etc., etc…
And with fascist laws being enforced, basic guides need extreme darknet praxis updates.
Having my own server is sooooo cool. There are so many services I’m running for my friends and family that are just incredible. That includes this piefed instance! Which is public if anyone wants to register here
That’s a welcomed thing, often it’s daunting to do it from scratch when all guides assume you’re a masters student in computer science lol
edgyspazkid@lemmy.wtf 5 months ago
Cool video and cool shirt! Is it sewn if it is it’s even cooler!?