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.
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I bought some hardware to get rid of my ML350G9 I had from work because of the huge electricity bill it is creating.

I bought for around 800€ of hardware for that and I'll be running proxmox with a few lxc containers to handle everything I have at home.
It's an aliexpress motherboard with an i7 11th gen cpu 4 cores / 8 cores ht,64g ram, 1 nvme ssd and a jonsbo nas case to stick everyone together.
I don't have the PSU yet and I'm reencoding all my library first before moving all the nas disks on it. I can't talk too much about how reliable it is because it still very fresh but I find it very unexpensive and the nas case makes it so pretty

proxmox is an hypervisor allowing you to create virtual machines or LXC containers (something between a VM and a docker container, with little ressource usage)
Jun 18, 2024 at 11:40amWeb