Hey all, been wanting to get into self hosting for a while. I won’t be doing a whole lot - probably just a Plex server and photo/video archives.

Maybe a personal assistant if I get really bored, lol.

At work, I’ve got a selected of taking either:

  • HP Prodesk 400 G4 - i5 7th Gen

OR

  • Dell Optiplex 7020
  • Dell Optiplex 3010
  • Dell Optiplex 3040 All Intel i5

Let me know if they’re all shit too, lol.

Many thanks

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Take all of them and build a cluster.

    Or whichever one is newest/has the best CPU, you didn’t really give the specs. And then take the drives and RAM from the others and max it out.

    • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Thanks. Yeah, didn’t give the full specs - my bad. I’m gonna take the 7020 and maybe the G4. Another question though -

      Am I right in thinking if I self host, storing a bunch of movies locally, I can then connect to my self hosted server from another location/computer and stream my personal library?

      Thanks

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 days ago

        On the same network yes. If you want to do it from elsewhere, you should use a VPN, don’t expose stuff like Jellyfin to the Internet.

        • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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          2 days ago

          How would I connect to the same network from so far away? Is that impossible?

          If I want to connect from far away, would a simple NordVPN do the trick?

          • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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            2 days ago

            Run a VPN server on your system and expose that. Then connect to it with the VPN client on the remote system.