Discuss building, setting up your own homeserver and maintaining the services and demons on it.
[Quick Questions Quick replies] Why would I want a NAS/Homeserver? If you ask why then you don't need it.
[I want a NAS/HTPC/Plex what should I get?] RPi3, Asus Tinker or Odroid XU4/HC1.
Are you interested in learning Linux or BSD administration and configuration better? Becoming a systemd expert? Or maybe you hate that shit and want a cozy little BSD machine to run services on and interact with. Or practice more advanced and complicated networking setups.
Do any of y'all use old business desktops as servers? I have an old cheap dual core AMD ZFS box with 16 GB DDR3. The CPU isn't cutting it anymore so I'm thinking of getting a cheap (~$200) i7 Haswell office PC and buying some time until Epyc Embedded is more available.
Andrew Sanders
200$ gets you a at least dual 8core xeon system with 64gb ram. i've seen a 64core opteron system with 128gb ram for 300$
Jonathan Walker
What generation Xeon? Power savings is one concern as well.
you can't have a home server in this day and age and have it pay for itself - you will use too much bandwidth and electricity to offset any potential profits
Justin White
I want to run a small wordpress site off an RPI3 on my parents network. I know a little bit about linux now and know how to fix things if shit breaks but I have next to no idea about network security and hardening. Would it be unwise to host this on my parents fibre network?
Lucas Ramirez
>wordpress >self hosting >wise
Pick none.
Just host a jekyll site or something lightweight and similar if you are going to self host.
Jason Perry
Kys
Sebastian Nguyen
Please elaborate as to why selfhosting a wordpress blog is wrong.
Josiah Gutierrez
Because you'll be running mysql/php on a platform that is notoriously bad for security, it's not worth the hassle.
Get a lightweight blog like jekyll and be safe in the knowledge that it's just flat html with some js, much easier to keep an eye on.
Ryder Ross
What are the potential risks for running that kind of setup on home internet? I know that the device can be completely taken over but is it a risk to other devices on the lan as well?
Robert Cooper
Bad things happen user. You still have firewalls on your lan clients but at that point you are pretty much fucked, nothing will save you.
pay the $2 and host it offsite if you insist on using wordpress.
Carter Flores
Yes. You just host a little unlisted gaming server on some home computer for you and your friends and all of the sudden your router starts getting bombarded by scanner bots trying to get in, sometimes so bad that your router becomes overwhelmed.
Caleb Thompson
Once someone's on your WAN they could hit anyone on it
Adam Cooper
I was trying to do this on the cheap by not having to pay for hosting but you guys have convinced me otherwise. I was expecting meme answers but thanks for your help.
Christian Bennett
mac mini with 16gb ram, ssd, and external 8TB drives running virtualbox vm's
