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

  • not_amm@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    20 hours ago

    You seem to have almost everything under control and already planned. For the VPN I’d suggest Tailscale since it’s the easiest VPN to set up (if you don’t have a public IP). You can do a lot of things with it, but if you only want the basics, then there’s not much reading to do. Some people recommend ZeroTier, but I havent tried it, tbh.

    BTW, I would keep in mind that Tailscale is planning to go IPO (if you care about that):

    https://lemmy.ml/post/31421626

    • Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyzEnglish
      2·
      18 hours ago

      Having something as critical as your vpn depend on a 3rd party kinda sounds like a bad idea

      • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        13 hours ago

        So long as Tailscale maintains their free tier, they would fit OPs needs just fine. If they move to get rid of, or otherwise enshitify the free tier, there would likely be time to move to wireguard or something similar.

        • Nyanix@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          9 hours ago

          I’d be interested in the viability of Headscale as a replacement, been meaning to try that…

      • not_amm@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        Well, OP didn’t say what was their situation. I’m behind a CG-NAT so I’d need a VPS or something similar for which I’d have to pay, and I don’t have the budget right now. I understand the concern, but OP is looking to reduce the time needed to setup things.