Buddhist, FOSS, Linux, selfhosting enthusiast, researcher, plantbased, anarchism and MLM interested

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  • I run three-four at home and one at work. Cost is very minimal. 20-40$ a year in electricity per device. Easiest way to start is to get an optiplex for nothing and install Linux with docker. They run very low power

    Big one for media, torrenting and streaming.

    One for security cameras.

    One for docker containers.

    One big one for backup but it isn’t always on.

    Then one offsite backup.

    I used to have the two smaller ones be on the big server but I need 24/7 reliability and found straight Linux servers better. I like having the security cameras server only running frigate and the docker ones away from the 24/7 seeding and streaming of the media one. Unraid, my big server, always has random issues for me.