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.

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    1 year ago

    Pihole is easy and light enough. I used to host Transmission (transmission-daemon) on a 3B+ and it worked alright for seeding around 300-500 torrents. FreshRSS also worked alongside.

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      Pihole my is choice too. It’s pretty good, but for some reason video ads still get through even off YouTube? Is it possible to block them?

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          You are not wrong, but uBlock needs to be installed on each device and only works on the browser, while pihole blocks adds across the whole network for all devices.

          I have pihole but still use ublock on my personal computer

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        You can’t do that with Pihole as the ads come from the same domains, and basically need a browser extension or an app with a built in equivalent.

        If you’re in the UK though, it does block the ads on All4 which was a nice surprise. It even works for the TV app.

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        YouTube ads don’t come from a separate server. They come in the same way as the video. They pretty much need to be filtered out at the player end (e.g. browser plugins).

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      I just started with HA as well and it’s a massive rabbit hole haha. So far set up thermostats for rooms, motion sensors with smart lights and integration with Frigate for my security cams. Also set up a tablet with HA which displays all our photos from the NAS as screensaver.

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    Pihole is the best starting point in my opinion, helped a lot of my friend to get started !

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      Goes against the spirit of self-hosting but for some stuff(Email, DNS, Passwords), I just SaaS it out. As much as I love my lab, nothing self-hosted in my prod environment is critical.

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        Exactly, I can barely maintain a media server I really don’t want to be responsible for my passwords and photos. There are secure alternatives that are private and open enough for my needs…

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      as tempting as pihole is. The last time I tried to do that. the pi went offline causing no internet when i was asleep (i’m a night owl) so my dad got mad at me for changing the dns settings on the router. So now I just have the router set to quad9 (used to have it set to cloudflare’s 1.1.1.2, but recently changed it)

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        You can make an HA cluster from 2 or 3 pies. One node goes down, the other takes over. Or go the docker swarm road.

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        You can change the DNS on your personal devices instead of changing it on the router.

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    If you have a 3d printer also check out Klipper, Octopi etc. I run mine off a pi zero 2 and it is a leap in performance over the stock board on the Ender 5.

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    honestly it is good to start with and for controlling machines like an array of 3d printers but a dumpster dive laptop will be faster. RPI4 is quite old now.

    with that done:

    • jellyfin
    • smb server
    • syncthing
    • tftp with wake on lan / clonezilla to backup your other machines
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        It doesn’t. Not well. And for larger files, even on cable connection without transcoding performance is god awful, sometimes it doesn’t play, or stutters or you get awful audio desyncs. Don’t do jellyfin on rpi

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          Are you talking about 4k files? Because I have been running Jellyfin on my pi400 for the past two years and I’ve not had those issues at all. My content is 1080p max though.

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            Yep, 4k, sometimes with HDR. It was happening mostly on those. But 1080p files were also sometimes affected

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              I ran JF for about a year on a Pi 2B. Transcoding off at the server. No issues at all playing any file using Direct Play - including large 4K rips. I moved to an Odroid C2, again, absolutely no issues with playback.

              If you’re seeing trouble with Direct Play I’d bank on it being network or storage related rather than the power of the Pi. E.g. the network hasn’t got enough throughput to serve the files. In Direct Play you need very little in terms of server resources as it’s handed off to the client.

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                Dunno, maybe it was storage. I had a SATA to USB3 drive hooked up to it. Couldn’t have been network. I got some old office PC with i3-6100 for free, hooked it up to the same cable, same router port and everything is working mostly smooth now, on similar drive but connected directly to SATA

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    Pihole is a good start, though I personally use my Pi 3B+ for printer server over WiFi since I have a dumb Epson printer.

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    For the cost of a rpi, just get actually capable hardware. Once you actually get anything running you’ll wish you had real hardware.

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      I’ve been leaning this way lately. From a cost/capability standpoint, RPis were easy to justify when they were ~$30, but not as much at their current inflated prices unless you have specific power consumption and form factor requirements. Used/refurbished Dell thin clients and MFF PCs can be had for $40-100, ranging from fanless systems with low-power Atoms and Celerons to full-fledged desktops with Core i-series CPUs, all with memory and storage included more often than not. I personally just picked up a Dell OptiPlex MFF with an i5-9500T, 8GB RAM, and 256GB SSD for $100.

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    PiVPN is a simple home VPN solution that’s worth exploring.

    Is you are interested in smart home/home automation Home Assistant is an open source home automation platform and makes a great Pi project.

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      I’ve recently set up pivpn with duckdns. Are there any security related steps I should take or is the out of the box config good enough?

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    I have two Raspberry Pi (4 / 2) and I use them to selfhost:

    • AdguardHome (two instances)
    • HomeAssistant
    • NextCloud
    • Forgejo
    • VaultWarden
    • NTP server

    Those are all as Docker services so I can easily switch to new devices in case I need to. All of them work like a charm.

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    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

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    One suggestion might be to load a Debian build on it and use it for docker containers. With docker containers you can do so many different things. I have a PI 4 and it does all of the following:
    PiHole - For blocking ads. (Everyone should have one of these)
    OpenMediaVault - For NAS
    Portainers - For loading docker containers
    Radarr - Downloading Movies
    Sonarr - Downloading TV Shows
    Tautulli - Monitors my plex server
    Overseer - Allows members of my plex share to request content.
    NZBGET and Real-Debrid Torrent Downloader Clients - For downloading content from usenet or real-debrid.

    I have one Pi4 running all of these as docker containers. Have fun!

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      Any chance you can point to a good tutorial for setting up these apps on the RPi?

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    You could install docker and pihole + 2 dns resolvers – which saves you money considering you can’t do that via “standard” installation methods.