Hello,
as you may can guess i am here because i need some help because i want to self host some stuff and i am pretty new to this stuff. I did a loto f research and i came up with a lot of stuff. I will present you my thoughts and maybe some people here can tell me if i am good or not.
First the Hardware.
I did a lot of research and came up with a HP Elitedesk 800 G5 Mini as my home server.
It can hold 2x NVME SSD and 1xSata SSD. It has an Intel 5 9500T and is upgradeable to 64gb of Ram.
I can get one from ebay used for maybe 150-170€. Then i need to upgrade the ram because it comes with 8gb only. I thought maybee upgrade it to 32gb for now. And buy 2 nvme ssds both 2tb dont know which brand is cheap and good there. The sata ssd could be my operating system i have 1 with 120 gb at home hope this is enough.
The NVME SSDs are 1 for storage of mainly photos videos and maybe a small audio collection. The other is to make a backup of all this. (Mirrored)
Second Operating System
I know there area lot of things out there and i know people can recommend a lot of stuff but …. I wanna keep it as simple as possible for my first homeserver … also i dont ´have too Much time with an 2 year old child. So my thoughts were using Ubuntu server with docker and portainer. Just that.
Third My apps and Stuff.
So mainly i wanted to run the following Applications on that.
- Immich
- Homeassisstant
- Joplin
- Audiobookshelf
- Calibre Ereader
- CalDav App for a Calender Sync with MY Phone and MY wife
- Pi hole
- Vaultwarden
- And Homarr as a Dashboard for all of this.
Fourth Using all this from my phone
Thats the only part where i didnt have time to do some research how i use all off that safly from my phone.
I guess i need some kind of VPN for a secure use?
I hope that part is easy.
Son ow i shared all off my initial researches and thoughts. I hope i wrote not to much mistakes.
And i hope you guys can help me out a little.
Greetings
The only thing missing is a good backup.
If you are storing anything important – especially Immich and Vaultwarden data – you should have a good offsite protection strategy. And even the HASS config should be backed up with versioning because rebuilding from scratch could be painful once you get deep into it.
I’ll let others chime in on possible good backup options because I use Veeam and Azure, which really isn’t in the spirit of this community, and I’d be interested in good open source options myself.
Also, RAID (mirroring) is NOT a backup.
Not wrong, just saying that every Vaultwarden client is a backup basically since they cache everything and it doesn’t expire.
Could I go with an external hard drive and make a backup there? I don’t think an offside backup is possible for now only a cloud service would be an option.
Yep, that would work fine for the first line of defense. Eventually, you can expand it to copy, replicate, or drive swap the onprem backups offsite somewhere (e.g., cloud, office, or family member) if you want to protect your data from site loss (e.g., house fire).
OK I think family is not an option so maybe I will take something like koofr into account
I run backups to a USB drive which is way to grab in the event of an emergency. Just make sure you test them every more and again, and possibly only connect it when needed if you’re at all worried about malware (a cryptolocker will happily take out any attached storage if your machine is infected).
Yes!
Someone in this community once said that if you’re not ready with a backup plan, then you’re not ready for self-hosting.