Granted, and all the answers I got in this post have been very valuable to me and I have learned a few things... whether you are hosting for personal or for business. Selfhosting is when you host it yourself rather than get SaaS or paying a sysadmin to do it for you. Either which or, you still learn a lot along the way.
thisiszeev
joined 1 year ago
This move is not about "self hosting". They are two services that my clients connect to. Where I am now, with the dodgy power, my clients are complaining that they cannot access the servers. I can not afford to store this much data in a datacenter, so this is the next best way.
Started as a hobby with an old i5 laptop (sans keyboard and screen), running Jellyfin. I wanted to learn more than just using Debian as a desktop.
Now my home lab consists of...
- 2x PiHoles (synced using unison and entr)
- 2x Jellyfin (1 for my use as a media server and 1 on a Unifi Cloudkey, which I am using for another little pet project).
- 2x Nextcloud (1 for my business and colloborating with clients on the various projects I get from them, and 1 I am modifying to build myself an online school)
- Gitea
- My own software to do round the clock transcoding of videos using a GPU including videos I create myself in Kdenlive or Shotcut.
- My own software to do managed downloading of content from a well known website
- Transmission
- Unifi (not on Unifi Hardware, the hardware was more useful for my other project mentioned above)
- Calibre-Web
- My own software to do daily incremental archives of my various production servers in the cloud.
I love selfhosting at home, and I recommended it for anyone who wants to learn.
Yes, I have fudged up a few times and had to nuke and start again, but with each time I get better and better at what I am doing.
I am now planning on moving my Gitea and the main Nextcloud instance into the cloud, as my poor little fibre line is not coping with the traffic.
VPS is not an option at the moment, as the amount of storage I need makes it prohibitively expensive. I have a 2TB WD Black drive with all the user files. My clients share very large files with me. Some of the art files alone can go into the 10s of GB for a set.
My mate has 1000mbps business fibre to his house. He is happy to do a RP for me, as this is the only way I can make this work.
We doing the server move this weekend. Holding thumbs it all goes well.