Plan for my first homeserver
from Verax@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 26 Jun 18:04
https://lemmy.world/post/32058787

Hello,

as you may can guess i am here because i need some help because i want to self host some stuff and i am pretty new to this stuff. I did a loto f research and i came up with a lot of stuff. I will present you my thoughts and maybe some people here can tell me if i am good or not.

First the Hardware.

I did a lot of research and came up with a HP Elitedesk 800 G5 Mini as my home server.

It can hold 2x NVME SSD and 1xSata SSD. It has an Intel 5 9500T and is upgradeable to 64gb of Ram.

I can get one from ebay used for maybe 150-170€. Then i need to upgrade the ram because it comes with 8gb only. I thought maybee upgrade it to 32gb for now. And buy 2 nvme ssds both 2tb dont know which brand is cheap and good there. The sata ssd could be my operating system i have 1 with 120 gb at home hope this is enough.

The NVME SSDs are 1 for storage of mainly photos videos and maybe a small audio collection. The other is to make a backup of all this. (Mirrored)

 

Second Operating System

I know there area lot of things out there and i know people can recommend a lot of stuff but …. I wanna keep it as simple as possible for my first homeserver … also i dont ´have too Much time with an 2 year old child. So my thoughts were using Ubuntu server with docker and portainer. Just that.

 

Third My apps and Stuff.

So mainly i wanted to run the following Applications on that.

-            Immich

-            Homeassisstant

-            Joplin

-            Audiobookshelf

-            Calibre Ereader

-            CalDav App for a Calender Sync with MY Phone and MY wife

-            Pi hole

-            Vaultwarden

-            And Homarr as a Dashboard for all of this.

Fourth Using all this from my phone

Thats the only part where i didnt have time to do some research how i use all off that safly from my phone.

I guess i need some kind of VPN for a secure use?

I hope that part is easy.

Son ow i shared all off my initial researches and thoughts. I hope i wrote not to much mistakes.

And i hope you guys can help me out a little.

Greetings

#selfhosted

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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com on 26 Jun 18:28 next collapse

i found containers helpful... it was simple to spin up a VPN container (gluetun), and push through any services/access/other containers (like pihole) through that. i really appreciated this because if the vpn goes down i'm not suddenly leaking my ip.

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 26 Jun 18:27 next collapse

Sounds quite good, but just use regular Debian, ubuntu isn’t any better and annoying with their Snap BS.

I guess i need some kind of VPN for a secure use?

You can set up a Wireguard VPN.

not_amm@lemmy.ml on 26 Jun 18:34 next collapse

You seem to have almost everything under control and already planned. For the VPN I’d suggest Tailscale since it’s the easiest VPN to set up (if you don’t have a public IP). You can do a lot of things with it, but if you only want the basics, then there’s not much reading to do. Some people recommend ZeroTier, but I havent tried it, tbh.

BTW, I would keep in mind that Tailscale is planning to go IPO (if you care about that):

lemmy.ml/post/31421626

Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz on 26 Jun 19:43 collapse

Having something as critical as your vpn depend on a 3rd party kinda sounds like a bad idea

boydster@sh.itjust.works on 26 Jun 18:53 next collapse

I think you’ve put more thought into how to get started than many others would! You have a pretty good plan from what it seems. My thoughts from each section below.

Hardware: I’m partial to Crucial and Kingston for storage that is affordable and dependable

OS: I’d probably spin up a Debian install if I were in your shoes and run my services using docker-compose files. It’s a quick and easy to get up and running, and despite the ease, there is still the option to do a lot of customization when you want to, and that will make it easy to learn more at your own pace and leisure.

Services: For the CalDav portion, I’m really liking Radicale.

Security: PiVPN is what I’m running on my actual RPi along with PiHole, and it was a super simple setup. I connect via Wireguard from any of my other devices.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org on 26 Jun 21:15 collapse

Samsung for storage. Crucial if you can’t get Samsung.

IHawkMike@lemmy.world on 26 Jun 21:19 collapse

The only thing missing is a good backup.

If you are storing anything important – especially Immich and Vaultwarden data – you should have a good offsite protection strategy. And even the HASS config should be backed up with versioning because rebuilding from scratch could be painful once you get deep into it.

I’ll let others chime in on possible good backup options because I use Veeam and Azure, which really isn’t in the spirit of this community, and I’d be interested in good open source options myself.

Also, RAID (mirroring) is NOT a backup.