I am planning on buying some old hardware soon to play around with a home server and some VM's.
PC --> https://www8.hp.com/ca/en/campaigns/workstations/z420.html
VM management --> https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve
Operating Systems:
(1) Windows 10 LTSC
(2) Debian
(3) ClearOS --> https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=clearos
For fun:
https://wyze.com
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maybe some self-hosted cloud storage
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Curious to hear everyone's experience doing such projects at home and any advice you have!
Cheers,
Chris
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Check out reddit.com/r/homelab/ if you haven't already.
I've only gone as far as setting up a Raspberry Pi as a DNS server, running a Debian install on an old MacBook to use as a web server and setting up a Synology NAS.
So is Synology NAS just a program that you can set up on your raspberry pi? I thought It was hardware that you buy that basically sets it up for you. And what hard drives did you buy?
Also, I would like to know more about setting up the pi as a DNS server.
Overall, I've been far more satisfied building stuff like this myself than getting pre-built systems, because it lets me pick out exactly what I need, and also means that I know enough about the hardware to be able to repair or upgrade any given component without fear of things breaking.
Things to specifically look for:
Very much worth it. Before making the jump to LinkedIn I maintained a CCIE lab an F5 environment and a full on vmware vsan lab. I used old dell hardware