Lexi 🌸Jun 18, 2024
i now have enough money in my account for an entire home server setup, but i have no idea where to start.
i want to host things like a website backend, qbittorrent, and jellyfin, just a general use setup. (edited to remove mail server because i've learned this is a bad idea on a home server)
where should i get hardware? what hardware should i even get in the first place? anything i should know about choosing a distro to host a server on? i'm completely new to this and would appreciate advice.
please boost for visibility :3
Show threadJun 18, 2024
@lexi sorry to disappoint but you're not going to host a mailserver from your home ​​

almost no server would ever accept mails from residential IPs

there's a price comparison site i use for server hardware but it's german and wouldn't be of much use to you, and as distro you can use pretty much anything you want, i use arch just because every other distro caused me issues

hardware, no idea :3 I'd just get a good but not too expensive ryzen cpu but i have no clue what to look for when picking a power supply and motherboard
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@lea @lexi for hardware id actually suggest Intel over AMD, some older Ryzen chips have issues with power consumption and stability under Linux. i've been running a i7-6700k server and i've never seen it go above 20% cpu utilization in normal operation. (of course depends what you're running)

> almost no server would ever accept mails from residential IPs

except gmail and outlook? 

Jun 18, 2024 at 7:25amWeb