I’ve been interested in self hosting a small variety of services yet I’m so confused on where to start. What would you guys recommend for a server machine?
My main uses (and some of the services I think are appropriate for the use case) are:
- 1tb photo, video storage, push/pull (immich)
- 512gb total shared between downloaded music storage (navidrome) and pdf/ebook storage (calibre)—all pull only
- 1tb movies/tv storage on a media server (jellyfin)
- 512gb storage for random junk or whatever, plus a file transfer push/pull (syncthing…? or nextcloud?)
- potential basic bio website hosting (near future)
- potential email hosting (distant future)
anyways with that all said i have a few questions:
- what server should i buy if i want to expand storage in the future? should i just build a pc with like 3x1tb storage, or 6x1tb storage w/ redundancy? totally confused about the concept of redundancy lol
- any thoughts on the services im suggesting? especially for file transfer
Remember that RAID and redundancy is not backup.
Try to 3-2-1, or something similar/better, if you can.
I am fairly sloppy here, and I am also very cheap. I have multiple copies in my home for important stuff (mainly Immich), the in use copy being on SSD and a few backups on spinning rust. I have a raspberry pi with an external HDD at family’s place, with a daily rsync+snapshot, for off site backups.
Of course, I’ve never had a catastrophic failure, so who knows how smooth that would be…