5 reasons EVERYONE needs a home server

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  • čas přidán 30. 05. 2024
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Komentáře • 205

  • @Rushil69420
    @Rushil69420 Před měsícem +320

    I'm in law school right now and can't pretend to know the first thing about programming or networking- I've literally just used Mac OS since like 2009 lol- but thanks to an earlier video of yours I got a Raspberry Pi and now a Mini PC to run Pihole, docker containers with -arr apps and Jellyfin, along with some network storage which I'm keeping backups on. It was a little bit of work but it's been a huge help! I *hated* being dependent on Google & Apple for everything from office applications to extra storage, and entering the world of Linux & open source has been SO refreshing

    • @xellaz
      @xellaz Před měsícem +18

      Switching to Linux from Windows or MacOS does give you that refreshing and liberating feeling~ ☺

    • @cenunix
      @cenunix Před měsícem +3

      Shedding a tear reading that, beautiful.

    • @Batwam0
      @Batwam0 Před měsícem +2

      Try Immich and Tailscale next 😊

    • @matthewbass8152
      @matthewbass8152 Před měsícem +8

      Welcome maybe you can use that law degree to fight companies abusing open source and licensees such as the GPL I promise you will become a Linux folk hero but I can’t promise much money from the ventures lol

    • @royhonders
      @royhonders Před měsícem

      Especially as a future law worker it will be nice to

  • @ivanmaglica264
    @ivanmaglica264 Před měsícem +59

    Linux enthusiasts don't ask why you need a server, linux enthusiasts search for excuse to have a server.

    • @AG-en5y
      @AG-en5y Před dnem +1

      PLS EDUCATE MEEEE :(
      Why would you want a server over a big external drive that I would allow the sharing option to be checked? I see that the NAS external case thing alone is like $300 and then you have to buy a few HDD meanwhile a western digital external drive cost like 200$ for 14TB

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      @@AG-en5y festival just having one external drive you are going to lose all data and you cannot be upset because you haven’t looked after it as you were meant to have three copies and one of site . a server can make that easier but also you can do things the server like access it from multiple devices you can install certain software so that your large collection of video files can show up like Netflix there are lots of possibilities

  • @ScentlessSun
    @ScentlessSun Před 9 dny +3

    Plex, smart home, nas storage, local backups, docker containers for example vpn, retro gaming

  • @easymoney480
    @easymoney480 Před měsícem +13

    I had no idea what I was doing but from watching your videos I got a mini pc running Ubuntu server with casa OS. Only utilizing the shared network storage features right now but I’m excited to dive into docker containers and learn more about that. Thank you for the content!

  • @hyperturbotechnomike
    @hyperturbotechnomike Před měsícem +41

    We use our family home server as NAS and [matrix] chat server. It also runs torrent for movies, series and music, because streaming services keep region locking everything and it's often more convenient and simple to just download them. Plus they don't suddently disappear. Since a few months, it has a graphics card installed for remote access gaming, when not at home.
    Everything is installed on our "HTPC" setup, which uses a hypervisor and different VM's, similar structure to our business server. It is super silent in it's Silverstone Grandia case, bq fans and an aftermarket GPU cooler.
    //Edited: forgot to mention that it also has an HDCP bypass and 4K capture for recording international TV or any other video source. Since some media players allow for real time video upscaling using the graphics card, this became very helpful when playing back recordings of SD media such as VHS or DVD.

    • @alexo5190
      @alexo5190 Před měsícem +3

      Please share with me how u learned to do this

    • @reflexbull6969
      @reflexbull6969 Před měsícem +3

      I would also know how you learned this if you are willing to share, thanks in advance!

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      @@alexo5190 it depends how much you want to learn if you want to be amazing at it and learn everything you’re gonna have to have one just for practice but if you just wanna set it up, you could follow CZcams tutorials ask ChatGPT when you get stuck and that would get you most of the way

  • @centurion8446
    @centurion8446 Před měsícem +2

    Got one up with Jellyfin and Plex up and running thanks to your vids. Great stuff
    Have to expand now 😊

  • @kaiwonwellington9762
    @kaiwonwellington9762 Před 27 dny +1

    Glad I came across your video! This is EXACTLY what I am looking to do at home! Great video!!

  • @eedoamitay3341
    @eedoamitay3341 Před měsícem +35

    the paying for itself argument is really pointless for a lot of people who are doing this for the fact that you actually own the data and no one can take it away from you in a virtual sense. That is worth a price and to me its well worth more than the costs of hard drives and the enclosure, its beyond worth it. Im not buying just storage, I'm buying my own storage.

    • @TGameDev
      @TGameDev Před měsícem +4

      They're not mutually exclusive, but I do 100% agree, owning is always best.

  • @dreamybull1509
    @dreamybull1509 Před měsícem +24

    for anyone on a budget, you can find old mini PC's on your local marketplace for cheap and use them as a server compared to buying a new n100 mini pc. I've found a i5-6500t + 8bg ram Lenovo thinkcentre for $20 USD. what was wrong with it? just needed to reinstall windows lol. just today i picked up 2 of those same ThinkCentre + 2 keyboards + 2 mouses + 1 monitor for $60 USD. they were just missing hard drives which is cheap

    • @darkred1686
      @darkred1686 Před měsícem +1

      I second the Thinkcentre. You can get them in a 1L form factor if you don't need drive bays and they are so cheap, I started using them for projects rather than the RPi because they were so much cheaper during the pandemic. Also, some 1L Thinkcentre's have an option for an 8x PCI-E slot that you can fit a half-height card into, but these ones are much more expensive than the regular Thinkcentres.

    • @Roger-ws8rj
      @Roger-ws8rj Před měsícem +1

      Those thinkcentres are a dime a dozen and there seems to be an endless supply of them.
      They're great for all kinds of projects.

    • @HannesMrg
      @HannesMrg Před 10 dny

      Depends on where you live I think. For me, the n100 is cheaper, because electricity is expensive here and the n100 is way more efficient.

  • @yetanother1305
    @yetanother1305 Před měsícem +43

    That "What happened to the internet" hit home lol

  • @123Daktary
    @123Daktary Před měsícem +3

    Interesting video. I like to see and understand how others use their hardware and software configs, but you made me more aware that I actually do not need any home server, or at least not for now. While I had planned to make one at one point and even have the necessary spare hardware, I still don't see any benefit for myself. I'm actually the total opposite. I don't care if the internet is down as I can bring one of my retro systems / configurations up and play in an already isolated / offline environment. I don't use cloud services, I don't watch movies, play online games, etc. My only use case would be for some programming related servers which can alredy be started on demand from a container, VM or a different bootble drive. But even for those, I find portable / enbedded versions more convenient even if they are more limited in scope.

  • @Spanishman2026
    @Spanishman2026 Před 18 dny

    Thank you for the info

  • @tomschmidt381
    @tomschmidt381 Před měsícem +9

    Agree about the value of having a home server.
    We are using a Thinkpad T420 laptop with a large drive in the DVD bay as a poor man's server. We are using it mainly as a source of automatic backups for my wife and my systems and file sharing for easy access by multiple computers. In addition it is running a NTP server to keep everything on our LAN time synchronized even if we lose internet access. Several of our DIY IoT devices default to firmware time and date so having a LAN based NTP server allows them get current time (sort of accurate) after a power fail even if the internet is down. It is also running a personal web server where we keep so common stuff.

    • @adrielamadi952
      @adrielamadi952 Před 20 dny

      Can you send me link to some home servers

    • @tomschmidt381
      @tomschmidt381 Před 20 dny

      @@adrielamadi952 If you are responding to me it is a vanilla T420 ThinkPad running Windows 10 pro. I purchased it on eBay as a refurbished off least computer.

    • @BryanBear5050
      @BryanBear5050 Před 9 dny

      @@adrielamadi952 www.google.com/search?q=home+servers&sca_esv=e29bad09a751d822&sxsrf=ADLYWIKi3L_X429mkyulDEQ0zH_I8n028A%3A1716332323322&source=hp&ei=IydNZqPhEISu5NoPz9uPgAY&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZk01M1LO_8hUPcFbCyP36QqdkrVJfDAU&ved=0ahUKEwjj_seT7J-GAxUEF1kFHc_tA2AQ4dUDCBc&uact=5&oq=home+servers&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      Make sure we’re using a laptop if there’s a bias option to disable battery or something you do because they can become dangerous

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      @@adrielamadi952 a very much depends on what format you want because he use data centre one that’s fairly quiet but you wouldn’t wanna sleep next to it isn’t very different price point and often much cheaper than home grade available on Amazon

  • @Waltkat
    @Waltkat Před měsícem +2

    I recently acquired a dead Cisco UCS C240 M4 server for free. It came with 120TB of 12GHz SAS hard drives and 240GB of SSD for the boot drive, a single Xenon CPU (motherboard can handle two), and 16 gigs of RAM (there are 24 RAM slots so plenty of room to expand). I've just about got it running again and will try installing TrueNAS or Windows. Haven't decided whether or not to keep it or sell it off. Maybe I'll set it up as a home server, if I can find somewhere to put it where the HD and fan noise doesn't drive me crazy.

    • @whatsupbudbud
      @whatsupbudbud Před 21 dnem

      120TB? Man, that's dope. 😄 But power-wise probably a very hungry machine.

  • @MrPirreE
    @MrPirreE Před měsícem +2

    I started out with an Intel NUC I had. Installed OpenMediaVault on it, worked mostly great, just not the most stable thing to run a raid array based on USB-disks tho, so moved over to a Q-NAP NAS.

  • @ghostbaleada
    @ghostbaleada Před měsícem +4

    I am a graphic designer and aside from this uses I also have my accounting and receipt generation self hosted fkr my freelance work as well as a website for my portfolio. Home servers have use cases for everyone plus i feel like my own IT for my oersonal business

  • @YannMetalhead
    @YannMetalhead Před měsícem

    Good video!

  • @alexo5190
    @alexo5190 Před měsícem +7

    How much electricity are you using if your server is on all the time? how much does it cost in nyc electricity prices?

    • @ScentlessSun
      @ScentlessSun Před 9 dny

      A server can pull 24watts from the wall and do all kinds of stuff. It depends on what you want to do. For perspective lightbulbs used to use 60 watts.

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      Everything is dependent because there’s going to be a standby usage. It’s gonna go up if you’re doing things but generally it is way more cost-effective than paying for something like Google Drive to store your files.

  • @xellaz
    @xellaz Před měsícem +5

    I backed the 8-bay version of that UGreen NAS btw.. going to use it as my media server.. serving all types of media I enjoy! Videos, Movies, Mangas, Manwhas, EBooks, Music, Pictures, etc. Not sure yet if I'll have to install a 3rd party OS. Hopefully they improve their software. 😗

    • @Khaled1425
      @Khaled1425 Před měsícem

      How can you download movies with high quality or manhwas is there an easy way or do I need to use Turrent?

    • @xellaz
      @xellaz Před měsícem

      @@Khaled1425 Run docker and get the docker compose for Komga. I can't tell you how to get those files specifically. You need to be resourceful. Use torrent, Usenet, JDownloader, etc. Save the mangas/manwhas as .zip files and change the extension to .CBR so that Komga can pick it up. You will need to teach yourself how all of this can come together. Google will be your best friend for this. Good luck!

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      @@Khaled1425 you can torrent it There was some very easy torrent client apps you can use which will basically just allow to download it but you will likely have to use some software like handbrake to transcode it to an MP4 format if you don’t wanna have hundreds of terabytes because the MKV format is non-compressed

  • @M167A1
    @M167A1 Před měsícem +1

    Casa server best project ever!

  • @Khaled1425
    @Khaled1425 Před měsícem +1

    Please can you do a video about how to start a Minecraft server on UGREEN NAS or any NAS similar because I ordered one and when I searched I didn't know how ( please do how to start a Vannila server or forge modpack server )

  • @tadiwavincent6247
    @tadiwavincent6247 Před 25 dny

    how do you get your movies

  • @cane870
    @cane870 Před měsícem +2

    What mini pc do you recommend using as a starting home server?

    • @cell8290
      @cell8290 Před měsícem

      Also interested...

    • @nezu_cc
      @nezu_cc Před 27 dny

      check your local used marketplace and see what's available, you can find really good hardware for a fraction of the price when businesses sell their "old" (a few years LOL) stuff. Dell, Lenovo, and HP have so really nice options. Serve The Home has a great series covering these devices, It's called tiny/mini/micro if I recall correctly

    • @whatsupbudbud
      @whatsupbudbud Před 21 dnem

      I bought a used Lenovo m920q which has a ton more resources than I would need with it's i5 CPU and 16GB's of RAM.

    • @CharloBagis
      @CharloBagis Před 12 dny

      My first home server was a Raspberry Pi 3B and a 2TB USB drive connected to it, it worked very well for a couple of years but eventually I moved to a Qnap Nas with 24TB, it is overkill for my needs, will probably get a NUC once my Qnap dies

  • @jimfrelinger
    @jimfrelinger Před 22 dny

    @techhut, what’s the easiest way to get a home server up and running and connected to all my macs?

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      If you’re going to do it quick and easy, you’re going to probably introduce some security vulnerabilities. I would highly highly recommend researching.

  • @renatobassi6991
    @renatobassi6991 Před měsícem +16

    My minipc with an n100 is on its way.

    • @TechHut
      @TechHut  Před měsícem +6

      Awesome, I love the N100 chip.

    • @AustinsMind
      @AustinsMind Před měsícem +4

      You'll love it, I bought the cwwk n100 nas board and paired it with 16gb ram, 500gb nvme for cache and running unraid with a modest 2 x 16 wd ultrastar drives for now. Using it for plex, rr suite, time machine and windows backups and eventually some game servers like minecraft or valheim. So far not a hitch and its running solid, its a beast considering the whole system pulls less than 50 watts under full load.

    • @gautambhatnagar4765
      @gautambhatnagar4765 Před měsícem

      I got a n100 poe one to tuck away, got most of my stuff (plex, roon, homebridge etc) running on proxmox

    • @1xXNimrodXx1
      @1xXNimrodXx1 Před měsícem

      ​@@AustinsMindwill this be enough to store all your pron? 😂

    • @ninthjake
      @ninthjake Před měsícem

      I literally got my n100 mini pc yesterday.
      Hooked it up today with CasaOS, running pihole as my dns server and even a Minecraft server with surprisingly good performance.
      Super happy with it. I'm sure you will be too

  • @nineteenmov
    @nineteenmov Před měsícem +7

    6:19 domain name system !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

    • @markarca6360
      @markarca6360 Před měsícem

      I can hear Jeff Geerling blame DNS for the outage

  • @mskiptr
    @mskiptr Před měsícem +5

    As for DNS, I really like quad9

    • @PainterVierax
      @PainterVierax Před měsícem +2

      yep, I use their unfiltered DNS for quite a while, complemented with DNS from local associations.

  • @tparadox88
    @tparadox88 Před 15 dny

    You might think that "if your Internet goes out that doesn't matter for your access to local files", but you may have a nephew who wants to be helpful and knowledgeable and tries to fix the ISP outage before you get home from work by pulling the boot drive SD card out of the NAS box because he knows it has something to do with the internet.

  • @dwayneg99
    @dwayneg99 Před měsícem +3

    5:48 R suite of tools?

    • @chaasetech
      @chaasetech Před měsícem +5

      *arr suite (aka sonarr/radarr/lidarr/readarr/overseerr)

    • @dwayneg99
      @dwayneg99 Před měsícem +2

      @@chaasetech sweet thank you! ARR!

    • @M167A1
      @M167A1 Před měsícem +1

      Arrrrr

  • @TheeAbstractHero
    @TheeAbstractHero Před měsícem +1

    I had zero idea Wikipedia had readily available snapshots. I could easily get sucked into endless browsing loops if I self hosted that.

  • @KuleGuy27
    @KuleGuy27 Před měsícem +10

    I've been thinking of getting a home server all the time but I don't have the funds to buy a NAS.
    At least I have some hard drives and a laptop :)

    • @Cavi587
      @Cavi587 Před měsícem +5

      It's more than enough! You don't really need a dedicated big brand NAS. My first NAS was an old Dell Optiplex that I got for basically no cost and a bunch of second hand 500GB hard drives. Is it ideal? Of course not, these drives can die any moment. But it's still better storage than a single drive in your PC. You can probably find people selling old computers on the internet for dirt cheap just to get rid of them. You can give them a second life!

    • @ghostbaleada
      @ghostbaleada Před měsícem +1

      There are some used off the shelf NAS devices on ebay that are discontinued or are not receiving software updates and most of them you can have a different OS installed to bring them back to life

    • @PainterVierax
      @PainterVierax Před měsícem +2

      First, check if your internet box doesn't have usb ports to share hard drives or printers. It's the easier solution.
      In case of buying a NAS, well as said previously by Cavi you can start with any machine capable of handling 2 drives, even a simple Rpi clone. If your old laptop got a disk reader, with a cheap adapter you can use this sata port to add a HDD/SSD.

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      If you buy a enterprise grade server used very cheaply, you can buy special hard drives that do not work on desktops and they are very cheap

    • @mdk495
      @mdk495 Před 17 hodinami

      you don't have a hundred dollars? christs sake

  • @zil6470
    @zil6470 Před měsícem

    🌞

  • @bobafett2598
    @bobafett2598 Před měsícem +3

    Short answere: bc its fun as hell.
    Long answere: watch this video

  • @user-in5yk7fm4b
    @user-in5yk7fm4b Před měsícem +1

    I went crazy and have like 5 nucs doing different jobs lol. Google drive only holds books for me to read out and about until i find a service i like locally.

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      Have you considered virtualising it on one machine which would probably save you a lot of power

  • @jamesmichaelcabrera9613
    @jamesmichaelcabrera9613 Před měsícem +1

    Why do you need to hide your ISP when you're downloading Linux Iso?

    • @michaelharings9913
      @michaelharings9913 Před měsícem +2

      It's a joke...

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      Sometimes they would actually restrict your Internet speed when you keep downloading big files for some reason

  • @fp1715
    @fp1715 Před měsícem +5

    Setting up ANYTHING that is Internet facing AND access to your LAN is asking for trouble. You have to have ultra fast patches, available and installed. Imho not worth the risk in most cases.

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      Well, this video doesn’t cover it, but he has made great tutorials on how to set up vlans and firewall rules

  • @mauriciojcYT
    @mauriciojcYT Před měsícem +1

    What did you study to know how to do all this? Advice on aquiring this knowledge?

    • @mkmalikcom
      @mkmalikcom Před měsícem +2

      You just need
      1. an internet connection
      2. a lot of curiosity
      just search and get your hands dirty, this is the best way :)

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      You can watch a bunch of CZcams videos but I would recommend having one server to test stuff on. You can break it. You can then reinstall everything that you’re not actively using just to learn.

  • @untouchable360x
    @untouchable360x Před měsícem +1

    Valid points if you have a lot of free time to set things up.

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      It doesn’t take that long, but it definitely isn’t super quick. You can do it in about a day if you include all the installation time for software and operating systems.

  • @hohstapler4161
    @hohstapler4161 Před měsícem +17

    Many videos say that you should have a home server, but this is not true. I have been dealing with computers (Laptop, Desktop, Server, Programming, C, Assembler, Windows, Linux, Virtualization) for over 20 years and have never had a real need to have a home server. (I have it because I like it, but I've had no real need to have it.) I don't store music because it's on CZcams, so why would I store it on hard drives? I don't save movies because they exist on multiple services, let's say for example Netflix. Why would you keep a movie for years if you're only going to watch it once or twice? So you need Plex or something similar? You don't need it! The only really useful thing you need a home server for is to share data, nothing else. No one talks about home server maintenance, which is not cheap, no one talks about faulty power supplies which are also not cheap, no one talks about faulty hard drives or solid state drives which are very expensive. Why do you need 10 - 20 - 30 terabytes of hard drives, to store movies that you will only watch once? Why spend so much money? Electricity is quite expensive and it's not worth keeping a home server running that doesn't contribute anything. - Ok, electricity is not too expensive, but if you don't need something like that, it is. Don't waste your money! People who record for CZcams need a lot of terabytes of space because they need to save their recordings in case they get deleted for some reason, nothing more. Also they get all the devices for free, as some kind of promotion and marketing, so they don't waste their money. You can do the backup on a USB flash drive, it's cheaper. You can't have home hosting because you don't have high internet upload speed and you can't fight DDOS or some other attacks. So you have no real reason to have a home server. Everything you want to learn about servers you can through virtualization. If you really want to have a home server, use a cheap mini pc that consumes little power. Don't waste your money on something you don't need!

    • @Bob_Smith19
      @Bob_Smith19 Před měsícem +10

      So what happens when CZcams and Netflix no longer have the media you want to consume? If you don’t own physical copies, format shift, and host the media yourself you don’t own it. You are the whim of corporations w/ their ever increasing subscription costs.
      I understand if you don’t want to host media server yourself. But there are many valid reasons to do it.

    • @armirgashi4236
      @armirgashi4236 Před 12 dny

      Why whould someone DDOS your homeserver?

    • @hohstapler4161
      @hohstapler4161 Před 11 dny +2

      @@armirgashi4236 Why not? (Because he can.) I'm the IRC generation and we did all that crap, over 20 years ago. Memories, memories, memories...

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      They are definitely required for lots and lots of applications when you have 20 TB of films you definitely need a proper solution for viewing them as well as automating backups is very important for people who do not have enough time to physically drive hard drives to offsite locations and manually transfer files

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      They are definitely required for lots and lots of applications when you have 20 TB of films you definitely need a proper solution for viewing them as well as automating backups is very important for people who do not have enough time to physically drive hard drives to offsite locations and manually transfer files

  • @festro1000
    @festro1000 Před 29 dny

    My first time getting into DNS was DYNDNS to setup a private server for World of Warcraft: WotLK.

  • @bobbastian760
    @bobbastian760 Před měsícem +3

    Don't get a mac with 256gb that's a joke, get a PC with a 2Tb drive that costs 20% the price for the storage, backup to the cloud, done. You have everything with you the whole time even offline, even out of your house. Simple is better.

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      That still doesn’t account for the 3 to one back up and you can’t easily run a bunch of services off the server such as DNS and Jellyfin because we’re so jelly you can make your own private content you own at the minute you set it up on a laptop and then move it somewhere you have a problem

  • @yw1971
    @yw1971 Před 29 dny +1

    3:07 - The chances a local HD will die are 10,000 times higher than a Cloud service.

    • @TechHut
      @TechHut  Před 29 dny +2

      RAID 6 >

    • @yw1971
      @yw1971 Před 29 dny

      @@TechHut Well, that's not a single disk.

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      Well, even with a cloud surface, you could still be having one back up and another offsite back up so it wouldn’t be a problem

  • @ent2220
    @ent2220 Před měsícem

    I don't like to backup my files through anything but a solid wire to an encrypted HDD. I also have a lot of files I've accumulated over the year (8.3TB total) and may often re-organize them, add a lot of new ones etc., so a server solution of any sort, even a home one is not useful to me at all
    Connecting to TV. Well I just said I have HDDs. I backup my computer's internal HDD to one external one and another internal one. I can take the external one and connect it via USB to the other computer I have dedicated for my TV (my older laptop)

    • @ent2220
      @ent2220 Před měsícem +1

      Overall, despite of being in IT and quite advanced I've always disliked servers for anything but hosting public instances of stuff or shared stuff with coworkers. I barely ever used for personal stuff, and I just use VMs in most other cases on my main PC.

    • @whatsupbudbud
      @whatsupbudbud Před 21 dnem +1

      But servers can be connected by wire, mate. :D

  • @dmitryvolkov7178
    @dmitryvolkov7178 Před měsícem

    ios video with nextcloud still transfer with downgrade resolution...

  • @geerliglecluse5297
    @geerliglecluse5297 Před měsícem +2

    Why advertising Twingate and not mentioning ZeroTier?

  • @hammerdownfpv6351
    @hammerdownfpv6351 Před měsícem +4

    Just one bit of info id like to share. Don't buy TP Link stuff. They are the worst for security updates. Do urself a favor and spend the extra money on a brand that supports there hardware

  • @peterwassmuth4014
    @peterwassmuth4014 Před měsícem

    Five reasons! I need only one reason.

  • @Beryesa.
    @Beryesa. Před měsícem +2

    I have a pi4 with 64G flash drive tunnelled to a $1 VPS for ipv4 and it's ok 😅

    • @aopen130
      @aopen130 Před měsícem +1

      Is the VPS for private dns? What is it for?

    • @Anonymous4045
      @Anonymous4045 Před měsícem

      @@aopen130Likely to safely expose services to the wider internet.

    • @Beryesa.
      @Beryesa. Před měsícem +2

      @@aopen130 Nope, getting static IP is more expensive than getting a tiny 1vcpu 1GB ram VPS I'm just tunnelling

    • @RogerioPereiradaSilva77
      @RogerioPereiradaSilva77 Před měsícem +2

      @@Beryesa.That's a great idea! I've been looking into doing that in order to set up a Wireguard VPN to my home LAN as I'd like to expose my Jellyfin server to my siblings in a safe manner but honestly I can't justify the recurring cost when a free Tailscale subscription essentially provides the same service as the sponsor in this video for up to 20 hosts and all that it costs me is the one time setting up the clients.

  • @EugeniusNaumenco
    @EugeniusNaumenco Před měsícem +2

    that's what I really want to do: ditch Google Drive

  • @adrielamadi952
    @adrielamadi952 Před 20 dny

    Give us link to some nice and affordable home servers

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      You can’t play home server cheaply because they are overpriced and sold to people who don’t know what they’re doing quite often if you want I can give you a recommendation for some fairly quiet and enterprise grade service which are like 100 max on eBay and you can use special enterprise hard drives which are very cheap secondhand if not just a desktop you can put multiple hard drives in

  • @ayyooojett2353
    @ayyooojett2353 Před 18 dny +1

    Ok this vid is beyond my comprehension smh lol I still have a thumbs up ! (Gave)*** ain’t a word lmao thanks for the like ahaha bruhhh I’m learning!

  • @DEVUNK88
    @DEVUNK88 Před měsícem

    As long as wookiepedia is downloadable im in

  • @denizkendirci
    @denizkendirci Před měsícem

    i agree but first, i need to replace my 15 year old laptop with a new model. lol.

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      I would give her a shot first of all because it might work but be very slow and then you could invest in something better if you’ve tried it half working and no you want to use it

  • @heimerblaster976
    @heimerblaster976 Před měsícem

    Apple computers :( expensive / hard to up grade /etc.. . I'm surprised a Tech person would use them.
    BUT ! the content in this video very nice good Sir.

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      Many people use Apple’s Final Cut Pro for video editing which relies on having an Apple computer

  • @user-zr2uc1gf8z
    @user-zr2uc1gf8z Před měsícem

    I like your comment "SELF hosting movies" that's very politicaly correct ;)

  • @chrishershey450
    @chrishershey450 Před 25 dny

    I too like to hide my IP address when downloading linux ISO's 😉

  • @ANTHONYBOOTH
    @ANTHONYBOOTH Před 6 dny

    the real point is, How to EMP HARDEN such a device, - even have it fully functional but PROTECTED and connected via laser beams (fibre).... ....perhaps to other Hardened Sites all ready for the RE-BUILD!!!
    ...I have a PHAT DVD library ...FULL of TUNES!!! = radio station....... also a 4TB NAS but Not EMP hardened....

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      The EMP grade device however if you really want back up new basic or just a wrap it in and insulating layers and soil under the same with hard drives so it would survive however the power grid lightly wouldn’t so you’re a bit screwed

  • @modembuddy
    @modembuddy Před měsícem

    You wouldn't download a Linux ISO... without a VPN, right?

  • @Mister-Wabbit
    @Mister-Wabbit Před měsícem

    run my own internet tell us more in detail how to build a network

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami +1

      The network side can be accomplished in many different ways and it’s often building dependent

  • @trillhittaproductions7872
    @trillhittaproductions7872 Před měsícem

    So overseer has to access the Internet so again why do this? 😊

  • @yw1971
    @yw1971 Před 29 dny

    NAS only, no more

  • @ayyooojett2353
    @ayyooojett2353 Před 18 dny

    Deadsec I see you Josh ! Aha jkjk

  • @bobbastian760
    @bobbastian760 Před měsícem

    Never back up things to Google Drive. They have full access to the content of all your files. You want that bro?

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      All go back up, she’ll probably be encrypted if anyone could access them you would encrypt them using a very high security method

  • @louisfifteen
    @louisfifteen Před měsícem

    One reason why I don't need or want a home server is the XZ backdoor. As an individual home pc user, who is surfing the internet, checking mail and gaming, I have absolutely no need for a server.

    • @PainterVierax
      @PainterVierax Před měsícem +1

      That xz backdoor really didn't get any negative impact for server oriented distros. RH/CentOS, Debian or UbuntuLTS were too conservative to use the compromised versions. And I'm not even talking about BSDs who don't use this library.
      In fact, this story made a reality check on how Linux distros and opensource projects should protect themselves from social engineering. As well as a reality check on how bleeding edge distros or testing versions are not suitable for production.
      That shouldn't discourage people to experiment with home servers. But like you said, I myself still can live without one, and without relying on cloud services.

  • @AG-en5y
    @AG-en5y Před dnem

    SOMEONE PLS EDUCATE MEEEE :(
    Why would you want a server over a big external drive that someone allow the sharing option to be checked???

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      First of all with the big external drive you would have to have three and one of them offsite to ensure there’s no data loss but seriously it’s way easier to access from devices you can set up automated settings. You could also set up certain things that certain content for movies you can access on Netflix like apps, and have it more like central familiar too

    • @AG-en5y
      @AG-en5y Před 16 hodinami

      @@UKsystems hello, thank you for replying, Im asking the question because a NAS would cost several times vs a western digital ext drive with 16 TB for only like $200. The NAS case alone cost approx $350+ for a 4 bay drive.
      I'm not really understanding why I would need 3 external drives and 1 off site. Your NAS server is located inside your house same as an external drive. I'm a completely noobie but from my understanding you could technically share access to your external drive with login and password such that you can stream movies off of that ext drive like a NAS.

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 13 hodinami

      @@AG-en5y you need to have three copies of your data and at least one offsite and two different forms of storage or you could very much lose all of your data that is proper data storage you could back up to a cloud service for the offsite back up but just using external hard drives means it will take weeks and weeks for the backup to happento other external hard drive. If you have a surfer, you still have to back it up however there are a few options. You could back it up to an external drive or another server

  • @harbinjar
    @harbinjar Před měsícem +1

    ya bruh, gonna anonymize those Linux iso's for sure.

  • @sativagirl1885
    @sativagirl1885 Před měsícem

    If everyone ran a TOR HomeServer to distribute kitty porn, for miners deep in the shaft, government could not tax it.

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      The government definitely has capabilities to practically encryption of tour however they have to definitely target someone and spend billions breaking it but they have done it

  • @azmo_
    @azmo_ Před 14 hodinami

    I don’t get the point why someone would use pihole. Doesn’t help with CZcams

    • @TechHut
      @TechHut  Před 14 hodinami

      All other ads on the entire network. CZcams is just one site and for that I just got Premium. It gives the creators I watch a little more revenue.

  • @luigitech3169
    @luigitech3169 Před měsícem +1

    An HOME SERVER is useful for NAS and LocalAI

  • @bobbastian760
    @bobbastian760 Před měsícem

    Life is SO much easier, simpler and cheaper if you only own 1 laptop and no other computers.

    • @GadiantonsRobber
      @GadiantonsRobber Před měsícem

      And never interact with anyone

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      Wow, that you’re gonna lose all your data because you only have one copy

  • @markarca6360
    @markarca6360 Před měsícem +3

    Everyone who wants to start their career in IT really needs to have one.

    • @professormoriarty703
      @professormoriarty703 Před měsícem +1

      😂 😂😂 since when ???

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      @@professormoriarty703 it’s actually a very good learning opportunity because you will learn how to troubleshoot issues. You will just learn basic network set up and how to SSH into something you might and stuff it is a good thing to learn

  • @jyuks
    @jyuks Před měsícem

    You’re legally protected in the use of the content. There’s no system that automates, or requires, revenue sharing for reaction content. You could proactively donate to the creators you react to - per your own calculations. 2024: Stand on Business

  • @DarthDaddy-cg6ro
    @DarthDaddy-cg6ro Před měsícem +1

    Way beyond my skill set.

  • @user-kx9rw2me2f
    @user-kx9rw2me2f Před měsícem

    First

  • @BiteSized_
    @BiteSized_ Před 29 dny +2

    Hilary Clinton swears by them.

  • @LLPOF
    @LLPOF Před měsícem +3

    Why in the hell would anyone want Wikipedia on their home server. I'd be afraid it would infect everything else on it.

    • @markarca6360
      @markarca6360 Před měsícem

      I remember The GeekPub have a mirrored copy of Wikipedia, however, you can have MediaWiki, the app that powers Wikipedia.

    • @PainterVierax
      @PainterVierax Před měsícem

      I suppose it's a joke or some sort of meme?

    • @LLPOF
      @LLPOF Před měsícem

      @@PainterVierax I don't know, he seemed pretty serious about it.

    • @PainterVierax
      @PainterVierax Před měsícem +1

      @@LLPOF I'm talking about your own comment, not the video.
      How can a website archive could infect the local host? This doesn't make any sense.

    • @LLPOF
      @LLPOF Před měsícem +1

      @@PainterVierax I ... uhh ... I'm speechless.

  • @dm55
    @dm55 Před měsícem

    EVERYONE? Can you beg harder?

  • @elalemanpaisa
    @elalemanpaisa Před měsícem

    Vpn Is important when in public WiFi.. it's always encrypted ..
    Lol
    Come on bro first of all it's not encrypted end to end secondally you heard about https and secure DNS? Which is basically standard on every android phone and every Linux box can this.. the best? For free without any bottleneck or additional latency

  • @johngalt8708
    @johngalt8708 Před měsícem +2

    I don't like this video. You're too deep into the tech stuff you don't realize how much people aren't like you.

    • @mskiptr
      @mskiptr Před měsícem +3

      Are people not using Google Drive? Or are they not watching shows and movies?

    • @TechHut
      @TechHut  Před měsícem +1

      The only category that might be too deep is the DNS and VPN stuff.

    • @Cavi587
      @Cavi587 Před měsícem +1

      I think that a video about home servers implies at least some basic knowledge needed to fully understand it. If that's too much you should probably start with videos that talk you through basic ideas like what a computer is, how networks and the internet even work, what are VMs etc... If you don't understand a term or a concept from the video, what's stopping you from pausing the video and googling it? If you're truly interested in the topic then it's surely worth it, right?

    • @timmerk7363
      @timmerk7363 Před měsícem +2

      @@TechHut The Homelab segment is not complicated per se, but it is extremely specific.
      It may be a potential benefit of a home server, but putting it in a video that is about reasons "everybody" needs a home server just doesn't make sense. It is only a benefit if you are interested in virtualization, networking and other niche stuff. The video just switches target audiences in the middle, from "everyone" to "people with very high interest in tech" Might have worked better as two different videos.

    • @PainterVierax
      @PainterVierax Před měsícem

      @@timmerk7363 even the part for everyone is kinda weak. I mean a lot of people don't use Gdrive, cloud services, VPNs, NAS or download/rip media content. It really depends on individual habits, as well as age, family situation or simply different tastes among family members.

  • @Roger-cg4po
    @Roger-cg4po Před měsícem

    hjk

  • @I_killed_that_beard_guy
    @I_killed_that_beard_guy Před měsícem

    Now give me 10 tricks how to make money

    • @UKsystems
      @UKsystems Před 19 hodinami

      I would recommend getting out of the CZcams comment section and then making some money and using another method