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If power usage not a concern then used x86/x64 gear is probably the way to go. Surplus gear (corporate, university…) possibly an option for you. That’s a very tight budget though, so I don’t think it really gives you the luxury of choosing specs unfortunately. That said: I might go fot the best bones/least RAM/storage if you think you might upgrade it down the road. 4GB RAM with an upgrade path to 32 is preferable to 8GB non-upgradable IMHO. Likewise, 500GB spinny disk with extra bays and an NVME slot is nicer than 500GB SSD with no upgrade path. Again… really tight budget so this may all be out of the question.
I’m a fan of low power gear, so I’d recommend something like a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB, or another SBC (I just grabbed an Orange Pi 5 Plus and I like it so far — NVME, 16GB RAM, dual NIC). However these will be out of your budget, especially once you add case, power supply, and storage.
I don’t think you’ll be able to build anything with €100, but you might be able to buy an old PC or laptop locally and use it as is. I’ve never run nextcloud myself, but from I’ve read it’ll be the most taxing service on your list. Everything seems pretty minimal, though I don’t know anything about Photoprism.
Yeah, for that price you won’t find anything new. For illustration, when I bought a new Athlon 3000G, which was the very lower CPU on their AM4 offering, it was at 55€ without anything else.
Older thinkpads in this price range will not perform well as servers. They will be pretty limited in specs. Better to go with a used SFF or other form-factor business model desktop.
My use case is similar. So i use a Pi 5 running motioneye dev 64bit. 3 cams 2 usb webcams (uvc compliant) 1 esp32 cam wifi. Another Pi a 4 this time runs pihole and wireguard vpn. Static ip so all is good. Homarr is my dashboard and i can view from that or the motioneye interface directly.
however the packages for nginx-rtmp are quite abandoned in arch linux.
Maybe you should switch to Debian? I’ve been doing it for a long time that way and playing to VLC without issues. What repositories are you using btw? Official ones at nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html or some 3rd party garbage?
I should have prefaced my situation better: I live in a country where the ISP censors certain websites and online services. The closest Linode is not on my continent (so the latency is noticeable). So my need to be connected to the Wireguard VPN really depends on what I’m doing. Having a split DNS system is seamless and I only activate the VPN manually as needed (both at home and when I’m out) Otherwise I would have just asked my ISP for a static IP, opened some ports and installed tailscale for everything else.
Upload speeds of the average person make general internet use while connected to a home VPN much worse. For example, my mobile nework is at least 10x faster than my home network upload speed if I am in a place with 5g. I’d much rather connect to my paid VPN provider where the speed difference is barely noticable.
Not to mention even if people are using a VPS, it might be very far away and severely impact speeds.
Running Jellyfin off of a VPS provider seems needlessly expensive. I guess server hardware has an upfront cost, but having real hardware to host it on at home will be far more cost effective long term, especially for storage.
Take your time and don’t hang your hat on anything until you’ve run it for a while yourself before you subject your family to it, no matter how excited you are. You’ll just get people wary of trying your projects if it’s always failing, unless you have someone that knows how these things go and that you’re learning, and is willing to help you sort out bugs.
You probably don’t need anything. Laptops using disk have been in use in bumpier environments for decades prior to SSDs.
But let’s say you do. Bolt some eye hooks to the top of your case and suspend it with paracord. It’ll turn vibration into sway and your disks will happily keep on turning.
When I install a new router I do the initial install with all network connections disconnected (physically or virtually since it’s proxmox). Once I get my IPs and ports set how I want I do the switcherydoo and disconnect the old one and connect the new one.
If you’re using the same subnet and your router has the same IP address the only down time should be the process of connecting devices, and maybe a bit for DHCP on your wan side. All internal devices should continue working fine, but expect their IPs to jump around as they get new DHCP leases.
You need to have a dedicated WAN interface, where you connect your WAN cable. The rest of the ports must be put into bridge mode.
You need to create VLANs, one for the WAN, then your home network, eventually your IoT network, guest network, etc. and expose those VLANs to the respective bridge ports.
You would also need an AP that supports VLANs, so anything that runs OpenWRT or other supported device. The routing would be done on the OPNSense’s side.
On the Proxmox you need to expose the network ports to the VM running OPNSense.
But there are more steps involved and if someone can share a step-by-step guide explaining the whole process would be better.
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