If you’re willing to deal with ancient, low end tech, you can spend way less than $1000. I’ve been asking friends and family to give me their e-junk for over a decade, and while I do wind up taking a lot of it to an actual recycler, I have several busted up machines that together can do everything I need. Plus they give me some redundancy when I inevitably mess one of them up by accident.
It’s kinda like using docker, but way less energy efficient! The amount I would be spending on subscriptions is a lot more than the bump to my power bill, though.
Yeah, I was going to teach myself some of that self-hosting magic, but I was wandering through microcenter and saw a 16TB hdd on sale for $250. I immediately bought it, then decided “in for a penny…” and bought a two bay Synology NAS. I picked up another 16TB hdd a year later for ~$260 for backup, got em in a RAID 1 setup. I like redundancy.
Got things set up, cancelled my subscriptions, and it’s been two years of mostly good times
BTW i know next to nothing about computers beyond basic Windows use, and building PCs for friends and family. My first few times trying to get something from GitHub was… challenging. But I’ve managed in the last couple of years to put Lineage OS on an old Pixel, set up the network stuff so my family can use Jellyfin on their TVs and access my “server” remotely. My proudest moment to date was sideloading Jellyfin onto my Samsung TV. That took some work for someone of my limited ability
If you’re willing to deal with ancient, low end tech, you can spend way less than $1000. I’ve been asking friends and family to give me their e-junk for over a decade, and while I do wind up taking a lot of it to an actual recycler, I have several busted up machines that together can do everything I need. Plus they give me some redundancy when I inevitably mess one of them up by accident.
It’s kinda like using docker, but way less energy efficient! The amount I would be spending on subscriptions is a lot more than the bump to my power bill, though.
My media server is still my original xbox running xbmc. Works great.
Reminds me of the ps2 supercomputer by Saddam
Yeah, I was going to teach myself some of that self-hosting magic, but I was wandering through microcenter and saw a 16TB hdd on sale for $250. I immediately bought it, then decided “in for a penny…” and bought a two bay Synology NAS. I picked up another 16TB hdd a year later for ~$260 for backup, got em in a RAID 1 setup. I like redundancy.
Got things set up, cancelled my subscriptions, and it’s been two years of mostly good times
BTW i know next to nothing about computers beyond basic Windows use, and building PCs for friends and family. My first few times trying to get something from GitHub was… challenging. But I’ve managed in the last couple of years to put Lineage OS on an old Pixel, set up the network stuff so my family can use Jellyfin on their TVs and access my “server” remotely. My proudest moment to date was sideloading Jellyfin onto my Samsung TV. That took some work for someone of my limited ability
Anyone in this thread tried yunohost? I just installed it on an old tower this weekend.