Hey yall, I want to get into self-hosting. I want to start from hosting on a raspberry pi, and I am just wondering if yall have any recommendations (I’ve never hosted anything before, but have experience in linux and programming). Sorry if it’s bit of a stupid question.

  • Martinligabue
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    42 years ago

    Some things that haven’t been proposed here might be to use it as a nas. If you want to access your films and shows from outside it’s easier to set up Plex instead of jellyfin for now. You can use it also as a steam machine streaming from the pc to the tv, or as Kodi/Libreelec mediacenter to make your tv smart

    • Zagorath
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      02 years ago

      use it as a nas

      If you do this, whatever you do make sure at the very least you get NAS-grade hard drives. But preferably, use some sort of RAID system as well.

      I just lost years worth of data because I used a consumer external HDD as my NAS drive connected to my RPi, and I’m not sure yet if I’ll be able to get it back.

      • @betoissues
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        12 years ago

        Even with enterprise grade and RAID set up, some sort of backup would help.

        Restic with backblaze is easy enough to set. I personally use this and an encrypted external HDD.

      • @ChubbyHot
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        12 years ago

        for starting out any existing hard drive is enough though