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What's your experiences with Debian and Rocky as a homeserver OS? (external-content.duckduckgo.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello there lemmings! Finally I have taken up the courage to buy a low power mini PC to be my first homeserver (Ryzen 5500U, 16GB RAM, 512 SSD, already have 6TB external HDD tho). I have basically no tangible experience with Debian or Fedora-based system, since my daily drivers are Arch-based (although I'm planning to switch my laptop over to Fedora).

What's your experiences with Debian and Rocky as a homeserver OS?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What would you like to do with your home server?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ahh yeah I have forgot to mention that.

Jellyfin
Onedrive alternative (probably Nextcloud)
Personal website + it's backend, or just the backend
Pi-hole
Probably other ideas which seems fun to host

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Hi! Here’s you, like 2 yrs down the road. I have no opinion on the server OS since I started with ubuntu server but my projects went a similar direction.

One major thing I’d recommend is thinking about security: web facing servers with your private data on it are a very bad idea. So unless you mean a website for personal use, I’d split the “home” server and the “personal web server” or vps in two so you have the stuff you want others to use unsupervised and the stuff you use at home and from the road.

Another thought is bandwith, unless you have insane upload, I’d stay away from web facing stuff like websites, game servers and social media instances. This works on a cheap vps with gigabit bandwith up and down. Way less hassle and less security issues.

[–] huskypenguin 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would do Truenas scale + portainer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Honestly yeah, that's the more productive option, but I want to learn setting up things by myself.