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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

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Kevin Karhan

Jun 18, 2024

@lexi depends on what you want and need.

I got great mileage out of #amd64-based, #fanless #ThinClients so far but I also don't run a small business off them but merely basic stuff...

What are your limitations in terms of budget, space, power, cooling, noise and what are your must haves and nice to haves...

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C.Suthorn

@kkarhan @lexi

As @kkarhan said: it depends: is the webserver only to be accessed by yourself, or by some of your friends, or do you want to address all the world and have houndreds or thousends of pageviews?
Do you want to serve static pages with nginx, or dynamic content with apache? If you want to run a mastodon instance, then you would need to run nginx+postgres+mastodon-server+mastodon-background-processing and you can add elastic search and libre translate: that would be 4 to 6 different server processes - and it would need significantly more ram than other setups.