With all this migration i’ve been inspired to start self hosting some services.

I am looking for a mini pc to ideally run linux and host a media server with radarr and sonarr, pihole and some other stuff as i start getting more into self hosting.

Any recommendations / experiences that you can give? Or some general guidelines on what i should look for or things to avoid.

Thank you!!

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Maybe stating the obvious, but don’t skip over older laptops if you can get your hands on them. Especially because the CPUs are already optimised to be power efficient. They also come with a built in UPS that even in bad cases will still be good enough for 15 minutes or so, which is good enough for 99% of the power cuts. Only down-side: lack of SATA ports, but that is more or less the same with mini-PCs.

  • Getting6409@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve had mostly good luck with lower end NUCs. I say mostly because of 3, one died a hard and abrupt death after 2 years; but the other 2 have been fine going on 2 years now. The only problem with NUCs in general is they tend to be over priced. If you can find them on sale they are totally worth it. As others have pointed out, you should have a plan for more storage. Personally I’ve found a good usb hub and some external disks work great for what I do. As to why I like them: 1) form factor, low profile cube, 2) they happily run headless, 3) hardware seems to be of decent quality (ignoring my i3 box that never turned back on after a reboot), 4) most models have enough I/O to fit your needs.

  • Wiox@compuverse.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Intel NUC is probably the best choice - silent, possible to have two SSDs, pretty low powered.

    Personally, I did settle with 13 Dell optiplexes 9020 SFF

    • please_lemmy_out@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I replaced my aging NUC with a Minisforum SFF box and am also very happy with it. Footprint is slightly larger, but actually find it much quieter. The NUC was basically silent 90% of the time too, but it had an annoying high pitched whine if you were doing something very CPU-intensive.

      Depending on model they can support up to 2 m.2s and a 2.5" drive.

  • animist@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use a headless Raspberry Pi 4 connected via USB to an external 2TB SSD and host

    • Nextcloud
    • Pihole w/Unbound
    • Transmission
    • Jellyfin
    • Webmin
    • Apache webserver with a personal static webpage
    • Soon to host my own Lemmy instance

    If you go this route I would recommend using pimylifeup.com for guides.