What's On My Home Server? Storage, OS, Media, Provisioning, Automation

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- What applications do I run on my home server? - What OS am I using? - How do I automate deploying and provisioning? …...more
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You have so much legally obtained content. You're an example to the community.
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I just want to let my FBI agent know that I am legally watching this video from my legally purchased device that is connected to a legally purchased network connection that only transmits legal things.
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DEFINITELY do a Step by Step. I'm just getting into server stuff and would love to learn from you mate.
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I am planning to set up my home server on an old laptop and it's been weeks of searching and reading through random articles, forums, yt videos etc to create a list of links for reference but when I stumbled on your video I was mindblown by how well made this was. Watched it fully in one go because of how useful it is and packed with so much usable info. From infra to services to security to deplyment to networking, just absolutely insane. Thank you so much for this.
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The amount of work put in this video and in the setup itself flies through the roof. I got really inspired to lift up my tiny Raspberry pi server to something much greater!
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I love how much information is in this video without over doing it on any one topic. Tips, why you chose it, how you use it, and clear explanation of what it does and it’s application. Definitely saving this video to refer back to. Thank you!
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Thanks for making this! I'm making a home server for my family to use for plex and a google drive alternative. Your vids are in-depth yet digestible and you know how to edit so what you're looking at is clean and interesting. Thanks for all that you do
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I've been debating learning Ansible for a while. Recently got my DCV-VCP 2021 and I kinda of want to learn Ansible + Vagrant to see what all cool stuff can be done. Your playbook is a goal, from zero config to fully functional in one playbook. Very nice.
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Never thought that IaC would be brought to this channel, and I'm all for the detailed Ansible guide. Merry Christmas to you and everyone watching.
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The video was packed full of great things. I can hardly wait for more videos, especially HomeAssistant, you bring things across in such a calm and structured way, it's fun to watch the videos.
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I’ve watched this video several times since it was uploaded, most times only getting about half way until I had to tap out from confusion. Not your fault, I just didn’t have the prerequisite knowledge before diving in. It’s been over a year since this video was uploaded, and I have finally gotten to the end. I just wanted to share this small achievement of mine, and also commend you: it takes balls to demo an ansible playbook on a production machine with all your data on it. Fair play, and great video.
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Thank you so much for this great content!! That must have been a GREAT deal of work, and we, the community, really apreciate it! Hope I can contribute as much as you guys do someday! Anyways, merry xmas and a great new year y'all!
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The amount of useful information in this video is just insane. Thank you SO much and please make more videos like this!!!
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Super long video but… Super packed with info! Bizarrely I know all the Ansible automation stuff you covered later but really want to deep dive into almost everything you covered earlier. Great video really enjoyed it
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Densely packed. Elegant. And immediately practical. Thanks! Not sure I can pull off a whole ansiblized server configuration, but now I’ll look at it carefully.
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I'm an SRE and thankful you're out here providing all of this great institutional knowledge for those who wanna get into this this stuff.
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Nice video, the IaC part was an unexpected goody. Working as a DevOps engineer I can highly recommend learning this. I even have a playbook to setup my laptop with all the config, software and tools I prefer. Might be a good start for everyone who doesn't have a home server.
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I'd love to see a deep dive into your IaC setup. I've been planning to remake my Home Assistant supervisor plugin-based server into a proper easily reconstructible setup with something like Docker Compose or NixOS, and your Ansible demonstration has blown me away! This video alone has also been incredibly inspiring. Thank you!
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As someone just starting to learn about self hosting, I think this video is packed with great tips. Thanks for taking the time to explain your setup!
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This is an incredible video. Very well done. Way beyond my capacity but great to see what can be done!
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I just found this and I want to give it 10.000 thumbs up. Especially the parts about using a Reverse Proxy for your webservices, proxying connections via Cloudflare, Authelia and reinstalling your Linux system because after a while they feel "dirty" were so good!
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Interesting to see your server running on 6100. Mine runs on 4570T, I have few of the programs like yourself, however I run emby instead of jellyfin. And instead of pihole, I have OpenWRT running on my router and I block DNS ads on there. I am always happy to see things like these :)
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lot of valuable info here, just got my own 42U Server Rack setup and there are some services you listed that I'm absolutely going to look into more, great video man!
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Thanks for making this video, this was super helpful! I was able to fork and run your playbook after some trial and error, using it as a jumping off point for a similar setup, adding things I want to host from repos like docker-selfhosted-apps. Having the setup defined with IaC makes me a lot more willing to spend some time and do it properly instead of hacking together something and having to redo/forget parts later.
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it's not a long video if the content is super interesting and conveyed in a very accessible, user friendly manner. great work as always!
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Hey mate, would love to see a video about debloating Windows 11. To everyone watching Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
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As someone that hasn't used most of this stuff, it looks like a full time job just setting it all up and maintaining it.
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I'm so happy you released this video, what a beautiful Christmas present ! I want to redo my NAS that I installed with OpenMediaVault and your first part NAS Video tempted me with the PiKVM and Homer dashboard ! I'd like to see the deep dive and step by step walkhtrough of your Ansible configuration, it looks impressive and would help me so much ! Thank you ! ️
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Been waiting for this! Thanks.
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Thanks for showing so many self hosted alternatives. This video is gold. Great job!!!
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You’re an OG. So much to learn from you. I am finishing my cs degree and took a networking course and got interested in home setup/networking/ etc and find your videos to be really cool and informative.
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Interesting. Although, the big problem is when you set something for the first time: you often don't know exactly what the right commands are, you have to experiment a bit, test stuff out etc. And with some things, setting them up is such a long and tedious process, that you have no incentive to start doing it all over again. Take for example hosting your own mail server. That takes ages to properly set it up and have it support all the scenarios. By the time you are done, you won't be wanting to do it all over again, and rather resort to patching what you have and keeping it running. Doing things right takes a whole lot of time on top of a whole lot more time for the initial setup and figuring things out.
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For new homelab builders as option consider proxmox as base system instead of ubuntu server for learning purposes also.
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Watching this video alone I learned the basics & nuts n bolts of cloud computing!!! Thank you very much!
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So much work went into this. Absolutely crazy. Great vid
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Okay, wow. That was a lot of stuff I'm certainly going to slowly chew on over the next months lol. Sadly I can't really reproduce everything because I don't even have a dedicated server or any RPis, but this is right up my alley. Viele danke for the amazing presentation! One question though, is this approach (mostly Ansible and hosting Docker conts on Linux) feasible with a desktop machine as server, especially without using tons of storage devices?
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Hey Wolfgang, nice to see your home setup! Question: what brand of smart thermostate are you using?
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After watching this I might just end up getting a Synology. I have Home Assistant and other various servers running. I don't know if I have time for another one but I'm very impressed with what you have accomplished. Very nice.
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Wow! Very impressive Wolfgang. I would love to see a step by step walk-through & deep dive video for your IaaC setup.
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