the homeserver talk whoami Nemo @captn3m0 @razorpay ( ) me@captnemo.in agenda What counts as a homeserver? Why you should run one? How do you get started? All the gotchas! CTA homeserver A computer which runs service(s) for personal use. motivation? owning your data motivation? owning your data de-googling motivation? owning your data de-googling backing up your data locally motivation? owning your data de-googling backing up your data locally learning/experimenting with tech motivation? owning your data de-googling backing up your data locally learning/experimenting with tech playing mario time? <5 hr a month what I run? Monitoring Prometheus Grafana speedtest-exporter ACT Exporter CAdvisor Media Airsonic () (Google Play) Jellyfin () (Netflix) Kodi () (Home Theater) Audioserve ( ) (Audible) Content Nextcloud (Drive/Calendar/Contacts/Documents) Miniflux ( RSS) (Feeds) Timemachine ( ⏮) wiki.js Radicale (Contacts/Calendar) RSS Bridge Gitea (GitHub) ZNC (IRC) hardware Specs Intel i5-7600 3.5GHz Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB 2x8GB DDR4 RAM 3x3TB Internal HDD MSI B250I Motherboard DO 1vCPU / 2GB RAM / 30GB SSD ($10/mo) (BLR1 region) + 100GB disk A VM on the Scaleway: 4ARMv8/2GB/50GB - 300 INR AWS Lightsail: 1vCPU/512MB/20GB - 250 INR Digital Ocean: 1vCPU/1GB/25GB - 350 INR Beware of Persistent Storage cost Security: Footgun Batteries included OpEx cloud storage Storage Cost/month Retail 1TB-SSD $100 $99 3TB-SSD $300 $224 1TB $25 $45 3TB $75 $84 Indicative AWS:EBS Prices Raspberry Pi 3 1GB RAM Wireless/BLE/Ethernet 4 USB ports Audio/HDMI/Composite VGA 2.5A ~3k INR , GPIO system76 Meerkat Other Alternatives Intel NUCs Hetzner Server Auctions (20-50USD/mo). NAS/Network device. Gamer? r/pcmasterrace/wiki have some old laptops? really into networking? really want a cluster? Hybrid Local Disk, Cloud Compute Cloud Pi PC* Hybrid NAS Security + ++ ++ + ++ Utility +++ - ++ - Cost +++ ++ + ++ Setup-Ease + + - -- ++ Ops-Ease ++ - + - ++ Storage -- - + ++ ++ Gaming -- - ++ ++ -- HTPC + ++ ++ + glue software docker * kubernetes ansible/puppet/chef helm? tool-of-your-choice Unraid HomelabOS pick something dumb containers? secure declarative configuration orchestration is 100x easier networking Public + Static IP Address Floating/Elastic IP VPN Wildcard DNS/TLS security security Don't expose services Expose services without auth over VPN only Don't expose management services over Internet Keep services behind Auth (even Basic Auth works) Go Hybrid buy a raspberry pi today self-hosting references kickball/awesome-selfhosted linuxserver.io r/selfhosted questions? me@captnemo.in @captn3m0 captnemo.in/archive.html