Hello,
as you may can guess i am here because i need some help because i want to self host some stuff and i am pretty new to this stuff. I did a loto f research and i came up with a lot of stuff. I will present you my thoughts and maybe some people here can tell me if i am good or not.
First the Hardware.
I did a lot of research and came up with a HP Elitedesk 800 G5 Mini as my home server.
It can hold 2x NVME SSD and 1xSata SSD. It has an Intel 5 9500T and is upgradeable to 64gb of Ram.
I can get one from ebay used for maybe 150-170€. Then i need to upgrade the ram because it comes with 8gb only. I thought maybee upgrade it to 32gb for now. And buy 2 nvme ssds both 2tb dont know which brand is cheap and good there. The sata ssd could be my operating system i have 1 with 120 gb at home hope this is enough.
The NVME SSDs are 1 for storage of mainly photos videos and maybe a small audio collection. The other is to make a backup of all this. (Mirrored)
Second Operating System
I know there area lot of things out there and i know people can recommend a lot of stuff but …. I wanna keep it as simple as possible for my first homeserver … also i dont ´have too Much time with an 2 year old child. So my thoughts were using Ubuntu server with docker and portainer. Just that.
Third My apps and Stuff.
So mainly i wanted to run the following Applications on that.
- Immich
- Homeassisstant
- Joplin
- Audiobookshelf
- Calibre Ereader
- CalDav App for a Calender Sync with MY Phone and MY wife
- Pi hole
- Vaultwarden
- And Homarr as a Dashboard for all of this.
Fourth Using all this from my phone
Thats the only part where i didnt have time to do some research how i use all off that safly from my phone.
I guess i need some kind of VPN for a secure use?
I hope that part is easy.
Son ow i shared all off my initial researches and thoughts. I hope i wrote not to much mistakes.
And i hope you guys can help me out a little.
Greetings
A lot of that stack looks similar to mine, though I’m running bigger hardware for various reasons. You might want to go with something with more cores than an i5 depending on how much you find yourself utilizing.
Have you considered Nextcloud for documents and syncing functionality? I went through a few ways of running it before ended up with the Snap package which has been fairly solid for over a year now (Docker was good for setup, but upgrading was problematic if not kept up with religiously)
Vaultwarden is Excellent.
Calibre-Web is good, especially if paired with the application to “extract” books, and an app like Moon+ on mobiles
Audiobookshelf is pretty solid. Pairs well with Libation.
HASS I initially ran on my server in a container but moved to dedicated hardware so updating and reboots didn’t break automatons. Got a HASS Yellow for the PoE and Zigbee.
If you’re looking for audio/video library management, JellyFin is pretty easy to get running and has apps for phones plus many TVs. Finamp is a good mobile app for the music part
I don’t have any document stuff on PC its just for photo video backup with immich. Audio and some homeassistant stuff.