With all this migration i’ve been inspired to start self hosting some services.
I am looking for a mini pc to ideally run linux and host a media server with radarr and sonarr, pihole and some other stuff as i start getting more into self hosting.
Any recommendations / experiences that you can give? Or some general guidelines on what i should look for or things to avoid.
Thank you!!
Maybe stating the obvious, but don’t skip over older laptops if you can get your hands on them. Especially because the CPUs are already optimised to be power efficient. They also come with a built in UPS that even in bad cases will still be good enough for 15 minutes or so, which is good enough for 99% of the power cuts. Only down-side: lack of SATA ports, but that is more or less the same with mini-PCs.
I am running openmediavault on a HP workstation I bought off ebay. I paid less than $100 dollars for it I think 10 years ago. I have jellyfin set up for media. I should probably upgrade as it is an old Core 2 Quad.
I use a headless Raspberry Pi 4 connected via USB to an external 2TB SSD and host
- Nextcloud
- Pihole w/Unbound
- Transmission
- Jellyfin
- Webmin
- Apache webserver with a personal static webpage
- Soon to host my own Lemmy instance
If you go this route I would recommend using pimylifeup.com for guides.
