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First steps to self hosting (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by tuff_wizard@aussie.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hey all

Been playing around with plex and the *arr's for a while on my main desktop.

Now looking to set up a server to run plex, downloads, pi hole and eventually some other backup's.

Unfortunately the PC I had laying around is 32bit and it seems like most things are removing support for that architecture if they haven't already. Now I'm faced with the problem/opportunity of getting something new (to me).

But I'm struggling with the absolute sea of options out there and also don't want to spend on brand new gear.

There's quite a bit of server grade hardware floating around (like a Dell Poweredge server T410, 32GB ram, Intel Xeon E5645 2.13GHz Quad-core for $100AUD) or even rackmount gear (probably overkill but a boy can dream).

Or should I just get a consumer case with the most drive bays I can find and build from there?

Lowish power consumption is a priority, planning on running ubuntu or similar.

Any and all tips welcome! Thanks.

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[-] canitendtherabbits@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the information. Being completely honest, I had to look up what transcoding even was. But hey, that's the point of this current project I'm working. To learn all this stuff! I have a pi4 and really only plan to use that to run the server. Then i was going to use my PC (Linux) and macbook for coding project, etc. and building the front end(s). Does any of that make sense?

[-] thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, most of this is about learning :) You could also put Docker on the Linux, install Jellyfin as a Docker container, and only fore it up when you are using Jellyfin. It's a little less convenient, than having it available all the time, but storing all media in H264 AC3 (most common video and audio codecs) costs a lot of storage (H265 and AV1 are far more efficient). Another pro of Docker is, when you decide to move your server, you just shut down the container, copy it's data and start the container on the new device

[-] canitendtherabbits@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

thanks for the info. Sounds like i need to find some tutorials on containers, Docker, Jellyfin....

[-] thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'd recommend finding a tutorial for Docker+Portainer - Portainer is a container as well, which provides a web-gui to conveniently manage all your other containers (without having to touch the CLI ever again)

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