As the title says, Im gonna start doing this from next. I finished setting up and calibrating my SRS today so from next week, im gonna do 1 movie a keep our national old tradition of watching nepali movie every Saturday.
I take recommendations. I might even drag my wife to watch it with me.
Over few weekends, I setup a machine that will slowly starting to replace my paid subscriptions.
I did alot of math to figure out how much I was paying and how much i was going to save and this was a no brainer. Complete data sovereignty of things that matter.
This currently hosts and replaces following things:
Data drive is encrypted and has a remote backup.
The last one is a work in progress and everything is being tested right now but so far, everything has worked without any issue.
Has anyone attempted to try something like this here? I would love to hear also, let me know if anyone would like to see the whole process of how I did this. Eventual plan is to get rid of all google subscriptions, media subscriptions.
Also, all of this can be achieved using a very old laptop or PC, only thing you need is a stable connection.
Spec: Very stupid not writing here initially but here you go. these are the spec
PS: I have extensive experience working with servers and in Unix environment.
Alright folks, here is the story:
After burning my money on subscriptions and not getting anything in return, i have decided to build me a home lab and it feels like im stupid that i didnt do it sooner.
This is how my hardware looks like:
Processor: Intel Core i5-12400
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black
Motherboard: GIGABYTE B760M DS3H DDR4 (VT-x, VT-d, and iGPU enabled; AC BACK set to Always On)
Memory: 32GB Kingston FURY Renegade DDR4 @ 3600MT/s
Power Supply: ENERMAX Revolution III 650W
Chassis: Fractal Design Pop Air Black OS/Boot Drive: 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD
Mass Storage: 2x 4TB Toshiba N300 NAS HDDs
A tp-link be230 wifi7 router and lab is connected to the 2.5gbps port.
My internet bandwidth is 1gbps and i reaches 970 mbps.
Im building this home lab primarily to have these services running.
A google drive alternative: Next cloud
Google photo alternative: immich
Streaming service: Jellyfin for hosting 4k content mostly
Spotify alternative:
A smarthome that conmects to a wall mounted tablet in the kitchen for calenders and reminders and todo list and music.
We are two people in the house and this lab is for us but we do want to access it via tailscale outside of house.
What i have done so far:
Installed proxmox.
Connected to tailscale via their ssh feature.
I have installed adguard home and configured dns in router and it has not worked correctly. My go to website to check ads is speedtest and i had ads there.
Now, i need a direction on how do i approach this?
How much resource do i allocate for each of the services.
Should the services be VMs or CTs?
Im open to any recommendation as im at absolute beginning. I have decent exposure with VMs, containers and linux environment.
Also, in what order should i approach this and where do you back your files remotely?
I saw ZIMA os, is this something i should consider or should i be looking at TrueNAS os or there is something better for my use case in your opinion.
Thank you for your help in advance.