Comment on "Upgrading" my Home Server setup
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 week ago
Having several older PCs running 24/7 will cost you a lot of electricity. I would probably try to consolidate all of the things which really need to run 24/7 on one machine and put then the other stuff on machines which I can do wake on LAN on them when necessary. Jellyfin for example does not need to run 27/7 you can wake it up when you or other users want to watch something. The webserver on the other hand needs to run 24/7 but is fairly lightweight. I have a NAS but I don’t really use it for much just small things like grafana and a second picture backup from the phones, because the old synology is not powerful enough for things like paperless, Immich, etc. So those things I run on my PC which I can WOL.
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 1 week ago
I am trying to decide how to balance services, but running all 3 slightly less old computers will be less costly than the 2 very old computers I am currently running, due to them being on newer processor architecture.
I was definitely planning to have at least 2 running 24/7 though, specifically for having 2 pihole instances running, as well as having headscale and my tailscale exit node on separate devices (so that devices like my phone are still covered by the pihole).
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 week ago
For things like pinhole a small device like a raspberry pi is enough
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 1 week ago
I am fully aware of that, but i have free PCs, and no money for buying brand new dedicated equipment, so its going in a VM or two.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 week ago
I’m not using it myself but Proxmox sounds like something you could get good use out of.