Home Server Setup - Turn your old PC into a useful home server
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Many people have older machines laying around that they'd like to repurpose into a home server, but just don't know how. Hopefully this video makes the process a bit less intimidating.
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0:00 Intro
1:02 Prerequisites/Hardware
7:35 Windows 10 Home Server
14:21 Proxmox Home Server
22:56 Conclusion - Věda a technologie
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What can I do with a computer with a q6600 in it? Still runs like a champ.
My parents have my dusty old PC, that doesn't work anymore. The specs are 30 years out of date. Struggling to find a realistic updated replacement online. They're price gouging everywhere. I really do want to do this though. What's the best way to go about finding a new-to-me "dusty old PC"? (Other than eBay, whose customer service is so horrid, when the seller doesn't send all the parts they were "selling", that I won't buy on eBay anymore.)
Update to this at my WordPress blog, under the name "JustRosy's Blog."
Been doing research on making a home server/test DayZ server for months and your prerequisite section is the most easily understandable explanation of picking an appropriate OS. thank you!
What did you go with?
Bro, thank you so mcuh for making creating a server and hosting a website so simple and easy. I do not think i have ever followed any tutorial that so simple to follow!! Keep up the great work!!!
I am a Newbie and thought this was easy to follow. I do appreciate people who can teach in a simple manner---->means the guy knows what his talking about.
can you as well host a database and access it online ?
A kidney ain't enough for a top of the line GPU anymore... We need to raise the price of kidneys, too many people selling them for a GPU theses days
*Googles which organs a human can survive without*
Pump and dump baby
1 Kidney and 10 bags of blood maybe
Sell your balls 😂
This video is great. I've watched a bunch of videos about setting up my own server, but this is the only one that guided me through the process step-by-step. Thank you!
I'm not going to cater to Linux nerds... ...You're first step on Windows 10 is to make sure that Windows has Linux because that's what Docker runs on.
Love it.
😜😜😜
This is hands down the best "beginner server building" video I've ever seen so far
get to the point, show you the first steps you need to start and doesn't bother you with unnecessary overwhelming details that make you feel lost
this video is shit, im an actual beginner, and he just straight up leaves out information, redirects you to other videos which leave out information you cant find after youve paid money for software/website urls.
Great video! I love old PC servers, and new, and well, all servers!
Thanks, Tim! I've yet to meet a server that I wouldn't bring home to meet the parents lol
Ru mad😓
Deserves more likes 👍👍 Explanation and walkthrough succeds in being useful, clear and simple while avoiding being boring and monotone
Wow how insightful, I actually wanted to learn docker in a more practical sense and I must say this walkthrough is clear and concise. Thank you for your time and wisdom!
Your videos are getting better and better! Greetings from Argentina!
Thanks so much for this video. I've been trying to understand Docker, even on a basic level, and every other video I've watched has been too advanced for me with Linux only command prompts and not a concise explanation of what is actually going on.
This was super helpful in terms of understanding the differences in why you might want to consider hosting a server outside of Windows for Virtual Machines, allocating resources to specific containers for specific functions/services, etc. I'm not a coder, but I'm interested in tinkering with some home server possibilities and this was both the clarity and step-by-step guide I needed to learn how to get started in Windows with a familiar interface. Thank you!
another excellent guide, this channel never disappoints
Kick Rocks! Great intro, really enjoyed the vid.
Man I saw the best video out there ... Thank you so much my friend ❤
This is sick! Way more what I was looking for! Thanks!
Already an IT pro (or so I think) that works with esxi and docker daily, but this gave some great inspiration for my old PC. Thanks
what a hidden gem, this guys jokes and honesty is amazing
We keep it real over here 💪🏼
Great presentation and instructions, thankyou so much. I am going to build a server from one of my old PC, based on your instructions, for all my devices to use for media and data sharing across all my devices and remote storage..
Excellent tutorial. Thank you. Saved me hours of research.
Wow. LOVED this video. Thanks so much. I’m getting ready to turn my mini-pc into a Plex server. I’m a beginner to all of this. Thanks!!!
Great video man and digging the bayside tee!
Best band ever
You’re hilarious, content is great. Love it. Subscribed!
This is a very useful video - thanks! I have been running my own home linux servers since the early 2000s, but I feel like my server chops are stuck in 15 years ago. A video like this is really helpful to lower the activation barrier to moving to Docker for a curmudgeon like myself. Thanks!
I resemble this comment.
I recently got an old Dell T110 II server. Its the size of a PC but man what a spec !. 8 Core Xeon, 32GB RAM, And SATA ports for 8 drives. Ive put ESXi on it with the Dell customised build. 6 Drives in a RAID10 , plus a SSD as a ESX cache drive And running pfsense, pi-hole, freenas, Unifi controller, all virtualised. Absolutely brilliant, wish i had done this years ago.
Dude that’s a sick setup! I gotta try ESXI next. It’s like the only major hypervisor OS I haven’t gotten to.
Dude, I really enjoy your content....
Awesome comedic editing! Funny while informative.
I had an old quad core system with 16gb of ram, I did add four 4tb drives in raid and 500gb ssd for the OS, this is setup a simple file storage server and I use TrueNAS and it works perfect for my needs.
@Raid Owl just subscibed to your channel after watching this video. I'm in the process of doing this to my old PC and this is exactly what I was looking for! I'm going to check out your other videos about the various hypervisor OSes.
Awesome! Hope they help out
Thanks. I’m learning all this stuff for my older pc
Hey man, this is cool. Thanks for doing this. I want to learn more about linux, but this makes self hosting a lot less intimidating to me and makes linux seem more inviting now.
Great vid pleased to see ur getting subs u deserve great content thanks
Your tutorial on turning your old computer into a server was excellent. Will you do a tutorial on how to store Nest Cam video footage onto the newly created server? I was able to partition the hard drive so one of the drives could be used for video storage. However, I got stuck on how to transfer the videos onto the designated drive for video play back?
Thanks Raid Owl. This was a very useful tutorial. I am not a devops guy and setting server was not my thing. But this video helped me set the server up and running. I am using the first approach.(though I am planning later to change it to Proxmox as suggested in the second half of the video.
Though I am facing issue in accessing my mongo container. couldn't find much documents or videos on setting up of container and accessing it outside of the server itself.
I offered my kidney but they wanted my first born son as well. Thank you for this video! It was just what I was looking for!
This was a real cruch course. Thanks soo much
Saved it, gonna try this this weekend on my Ubuntu server VM :)
Been thinking of doing this for some time now. This really helps. I just want to run 3 other laptop client machines.
24 minutes _is_ brief and to the point. More longform content please, less youtube minimum length algorithm optimizations! Keep up the good work and thank you!
Thanks for this great video Brett!! Very interesting as well as your channel. I managed to get the docker thing running on my modest Asus Intel J1900I-C with 8gb of RAM. Cheers bro!
Awesome! Cheers to learning. If you need help feel free to join the Raid Owl discord!
Excellent video
Why not like Ubuntu server with the lxc/lxd containers and maybe 1 or 2 virtual machines on the host for the docker? I'm genuinely interested. Keep up the good work!👍
Thank you very much for this video, I've been holding from trying containers until now becasuse thought they needed much more power. My current jellyfin media server runs on a Core2Quad Q6600 based old pavillion with 8gb ram, 512gb system drive and 32Tb of internal storage space and 8 TB external. I'm running a bare metal windows 11 jellyfin server and feel I should try containers to run another tasks more efficiently, such as a cloud storage for example. New subscriber here!
Excelente video BRO. Thank you so much bro
I would love if you made a video explaining what security measures should we take for this home servers for both local network only and public setups
Thats one of the issues i have with making a server. do i know enough to make it secure???
Interested as well
Very direct explanation
Hilarious! Keep em coming!
Hi, very informative and witty! If I already have Plex server running on my old PC is that enough, or will I need Docker and the other programs you tell us about? I'm very new to the server thing, less than a year with Plex and liking it a lot. The old PC runs Plex server for media and I access on the TV.
Great video tutorial. Thanks
I almost turned from the video but 4:36 in and you made me a fan and i subbed hahaha
sweet, now i have somewhere to store my happy videos that i can access from my phone next time i'm alone in my hotel room in singapore.
👍
That intro was pretty good
I m 12 seconds into the video and had to pause........wtf is going on with this intro? Love it lol
Hey man, nice video. Just a question: what would I need for accessing the nextcloud container created on computer A, from another computer through LAN, let's say computer B. I'm kind of a beginner in the topic, so I appreciate the help
I have a spare computer with windows and a software raid of about 6gb that I want to use as storage. Would using as a server instead of just a mapped drive be significantly faster? I want to be able to use windows when necessary, I use a boot manager (Bootit) and can have two occurences of windows on the machine. Thanks
this is useful thanks for sharing this.
It will definitely be a sacrifice to the tech god
Love the shirt. Did you pick that up in Denver?
As always, love your videos! Quick question - Let's say I am building a system that I want to use as my workstation (Windows 10) while I'm working on it, and while I'm not working on it use it for NextCloud, Plex and Docker and all that. How do you suggest I can do that?🤔
I know I can create a windows container on Proxmox, but accessing windows via VNC or RDP doesn't sound that exciting compared to the native experience!
If you have a GPU in the system you could pass the GPU and your USB mouse/keyboard to a Windows 10 VM and set it start on boot. You would then be able to plug in your monitor and use your keyboard/mouse as if you were using a regular ole Windows 10 machine.
@@RaidOwl woah! Now that's what I wanted to know!
A file server only really needs 1 core. I recommend a Skylake or newer processor with 1 core enabled, since Skylake is both really cheap and still pretty power-efficient.
Thanks!
Is there an advantage to installing Docker as a container on Proxmox, versus just using the containers (CT) option in Proxmox and skipping Docker? Is it for the compatibility you mention at 22:34?
Yeah you can certainly use the Proxmox containers for your services but I just like using Docker to keep things consistent .
I was gonna say, that seemed like an unnecessary step.
Great video and very funny.
Thanks!
Thanks for the video. It worked great until it asks for me to add a trusted domain. This needs to be done in the config files but I have no idea how to do so within a container. Any suggestions?
Great Video & I really like the channel, I've been looking for something like this for a while. Tried it out last weekend on an old laptop. Docker installed fine so did Nextcloud & Portainer. Was able to access next cloud on the laptop I installed Docker on via LocalHost:8080, but not from any other machine on my LAN.
Tried via Firefox & chrome also tried using the IP assigned by my router to the server / old laptop. NOt using a VPN and have turned off the windows firewall on the server Laptop. But still I just get "Unable to connect " in my browser. I know I'm completely new at this so I'm sure it's something basic I've overlooked. Any Suggestions / Advice ? Thanks !
For me I had to open the port on the firewall. I cannot get the trusted domain added though to Nextcloud.
Hi thank you for the informative and entertaining video :D
Can I as.... The server with Docker and Nextcloud... does it/they always have to be connected to the internet to run the home network?
Thank you.
Nope, they can still provide services on your local network without an internet connection
what videos can i watch to get to the part where the setup is complete and i can access the server from my new build?
Oooh, new RaidOwl video ....... Go on then!!
great video ....I did a sacrifice to the tech gods for this video lol
Thanks for you video
Am use an older motherboard with 6 SATA plugs paired with AMD Athlon(tm) II x2 250 and 8 gigs of RAM to run openmediavault (OMV).
I used 1 of the SATA plugs for my NAS OS and remaining five for my data drives (4TB each).
Ive just done this with some spare parts. All i needed to buy was a cheap gpu and 1 ram stick, cost about £64. Using it for plex only. Is it safe to leave it running 24/7?
What has been seen cannot be unseen...
You’re welcome
The kidney shot was a hoot!
🦉🦉🦉
Have an old dell pc that I turned into a Plex server and made a Time Machine drive. Initially went with Truenas core, that was a disaster, Time Machine drive worked great but not apps would install at all, just time out during the install. After 2 weeks of fighting it I moved to truenas scale and everything worked just fine. Still don’t understand the failure with scale, wish I did for my own curiosity.
do you have a video how to run a program on a server that runs through My SQL?
Just picked up an optional from eBay, 8 threads 24gigs of RAM. I'm hoping to say least run a Minecraft server and pfsense in proxmox. Maybe pihole would be cool too.
4:20 "get over it nerd" just gets me
What is the reason to run Docker on Proxmox, and not just in Ubuntu server, directly on the machine?
I learned something, I run proxmox on a dedicated server. I run all vm’s I never experimented with CT Templates is that like docker containers?
Very similar, yes. Much more efficient as it uses the host's kernel to run so very little overhead.
Please Help.. Did I miss something or is docker in windows just a pain? I need to access the nextcloud config file to add the LOCAL MACHINES IP as a trusted domain, and I REALLY don't want to use terminal to locate, copy, delete, and reupload the edited config file. Is there an easier way?
For the windows 10 option is it possible to run it headless? I read RDP is not safe for this purpose but don't fully understand why.
How would u create a sever to turn back on like an old gaming lobbys
I got totally confused after we installed Portainer as this wasn't setup to use Nextcloud right? Plus you mentioned Windows Docker wasn't the best, but Portainer is still running using Windows Docker is it not? I closed Windows Docker but then (as I suspected) the Nextcloud and Portainer containers weren't available. Feel like I'm missing something here. First half of video was great, second half I'm left feeling confused.
Edit: I tried running docker start container from Powershell which worked, but only if Docker Desktop was running. I am SO confused. I thought Portainer was instead of Docker desktop. (I'm in Windows 10 Pro)
good video but it is not for very beginners as you indicated in the start of the video. The pace is too fast without more detailed explanations for each step. I think true beginners would need to find something with a bit more description.
I was beginning to think I was the only one thinking this. The video starts off slower with great explanations, but he then gets on a roll that only those with experience can keep up with.
I wish content creators would stop apologizing for making longer videos when educating viewers. It's quite ridiculous because to learn as "a beginner" often requires a slow long pace of explanations. Hence, long video!
The video wasn't what I was expecting (but in a good way). But I am a little confused?
So you're using docker because all the installs will be the same no matter what OS you're running correct?
Although I suppose you could still just run any of the applications (like cloud servers etc) on any OS by just installing it without using docker?
Correct, I mentioned that most software can be installed to whichever OS you want so most of the time it just comes down to preference. I like Docker as it's a consistent experience across every platform, but others may feel differently. I'm glad you enjoyed the video, though!
@@RaidOwl Thanks for the clarification. I've only ever run a QNAP server, so I'm used to just installing an app and setting to run if I want it running on startup. Although I've switched to Linux a while back and getting comfy with that. So thought about creating my own server as the QNAP is hanging on by a thread and only a matter of time before it dies LOL.
What's the performance difference between RAID0 and RAID10? I'm currently running two 1TB SSDs RAID0, but I'm thinking about switching to RAID10 for obvious reasons. I just don't want to cut my PCs response time in half. It's an older custom build using an Intel 3770K if it matters. Thanks.
can we use it as a web hosting server for parking domains. and domain access will be globllay
In portainer I have several ct, one of them nextcloud. The problem is that I can't upload files larger than 512MB, how can I increase the size of the files?
It's actually power consumption I'm worried about. I've got an old haswell i5 strapped to a (potentially volatile) old 650 watt psu.
How useful or necessary is it to have a management port on your motherboard?
So intresting.
after you build it and set it up and need more memory, how do I add more?
Hi mate I have a very old system it's on ddr2 would this be useful for anything
What part of this video was for those who hadn't done it before?
Can I just install docker as a CT without installing an Ubuntu server? great content btw keep it up
You can use the Turnkey-Core CT which is a little more lightweight and install Docker on that, but it was acting funky for me. Docker needs some base os to run off of though.
I am using my old pc just as a file storage, but need to do some registry edits to enable remote desktop cause my old pc dues not have windows 8.1 pro, also I just use the default windows network file sharing thing as a local file storage so no installing any programs, I just need it to run without a monitor and keyboard or mouse
What?
I am learning, I think. Thank you.
I have a i7-2700k + 16gb ram + gtx 1050ti. Can I makof the same machine a machine with ubuntu running docker to access SQL DAtabases remotly and being a NAS at the same time?
Will this work with a 2011 MacBook Air or 2002 Compaq PC?