Hi, I'm looking for some recommendations, mostly looking for pointers of where to go and look at/research stuff as I have no idea what is good and what is just well advertised.
Intro: I have finally entered the world of (almost) Gigabit internet, which is opening up options with what I can host.
I currently have:
- Pi hole on an actual RP (will probably remain there because its easy)
- Inbound Wireguard VPN on my old router (will stop working when my old ISP stops service) EDIT: my new ISB gave me a router, but it doesn't have VPN functionality
- Foundry VTT that I run up on my gaming machine when needed
I will probably also be upgrading my gaming PC in the next few months, so my current rig will probably be put behind the TV to use as a server and for couch gaming.
Info/recommendations I would like:
- VPN software (I want to VPN INTO my network) My goto would be wireguard, is that still a good option? (I assume I just port forward the VPN ports to the server?)
- Private cloud/File server: I both want to be able to occasionally (but permamently) host files publicly, but still have the main store be available on the local network only. Is that going to be two pieces of software, or just one?
- Is a local video streaming app actually useful for a rare watcher of movies etc, or can they be streamed directly from the file server? its something that I see a lot of people talk about, but don't really understand why...
- Is Docker the way to go for everything? or just install on the machine directly?
- ~Piracy~ VM - Enabling the virtualisation stuff for Docker mostly breaks virtualbox (at least on windows) any recommendations for how to nicely run a VM alongside docker (if that's the recommendation)?
- Should/Could I be hosting anything else? Foundry will probably be on there. I don't feel like I have a use for smart home stuff, so home assistant wouldn't be much use etc.
Here ya go: https://selfh.st/apps/
Will cover about 90% of your bases there. You can even look up proprietary software and it will show you self-hostable alternatives.
Yes.
https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=File+Sharing
You can do it any number of ways. I have it setup a pretty cool way, I think. I leave my PC on all the time. I also have a home NAS with all my media files on it. I host Jellyfin server on my PC and in the Jellyfin settings link to the network location of the files (
\\nas\media\tv, etc). Works great, especially for transcoding because I run the server on my Windows PC, it gets access to my GPU for transcoding. Really great setup I like to think. Only drawback being you have to leave your PC on all the time, which doesn't bother me.There are alternatives to docker, like LXC but they're not as widely used as Docker. So unfortunately...
Another option for you could be Hyper-V if you don't mind using your PC to run containers. I like it better than running docker containers.
oooh, TY! Now to guess which ones will still be maintained in 5 years 😆
I guess I must as well have a play with some stuff like jellyfin to see if its useful. The 'server' in this case would have a 6 year old GPU in it, so should hopefully have enough grunt.
Thanks for the info!
If you figure it out, lemme know. lol