So I finally finished gathering the hardware for my first real homelab. I currently have a pi that I run nginx, searxng, and pihole, but I’m looking to move to something more hefty. I’ll probably leave pihole and nginx on the pi. I’m wanting to set up plex to host things for home use as well as a way to store photos, Documents, etc locally. Ideally my friends and I play games like valheim and icarus and I would like to be able to use a vm or container to host game servers when needed.
My hardware currently consists of an amd 4650g pro, 16gig ddr4, amd a520 mobo and 2 1tb m2s.
My question is I’m considering setting up proxmox for this but I wanted to see advice before I go to far. Is there a more preferred option? I’m not too hung up on cost but ideally I don’t want anything to run through like a host page off my network or something. And I would like something that will allow me to expand storage since 2tb isn’t really a lot
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Unraid (you pay for how many disks you have in your array, you can get the unlimited one for like $119 - would have to double-check but it’s around 100 bucks, it’s not subscription-based, so once you buy it you have it for good). Been using it for years, it’s great and is pretty easy to set up. If you have any questions let me know. They’re constantly improving it.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters Plex Brand of media server package SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption VPN Virtual Private Network
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Proxmox is both easy and powerful so it’s a great choice for self-hosting. Your specs are fine, you’ll run out of disk space first if you want a media center and then you’ll run out of RAM way before your CPU can’t keep up with the work.
I recommend Jellyfin over Plex as well, as a small note.
How many SATA headers do you have on the mobo? If you just move that into an enclosure that can handle a couple of HDDs you’re probably golden. And I bet that Mobo can handle 32 GBs of RAM as well, if not 64? So you have a clear upgrade path before needing additional expensive hardware.
Overall I think it’ll be great! How’s your current network setup? Self-hosting stuff puts some demand on router and wiring that you don’t really have if you don’t selfhost anything.
