Incredible Budget Home Server! (Minecraft, Plex, Home Assistant, NAS)

UPDATES/CORRECTIONS:
- I apologize if you came to this video expecting a computer that was readily available for $50. I wasn’t trying to be misleading, and I’m hoping to get better at making titles and thumbnails.
- The Minecraft server portion of this will probably not run very well on older or low end hardware. I’m currently working on a video to run a much more optimized server on old hardware.
- If you don’t know an available IP address, find the IP of your router and login. From there you can find the DHCP settings. You can probably find your server by name here. If you save or reserve that IP in your router settings, it won’t change.
- It seems like there are some changes to newer versions of Ubuntu Server, so try using the same version I used in the video. I'll try to find time to look into common issues/fixes.
In this one, we're once again taking a look at the HP Pavilion 500-a60, but now we're setting it up as a home server.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:36 The System
2:28 Installing Linux
4:10 Network Setup and Open SSH
6:18 Samba
8:17 Plex
10:58 Docker and Home Assistant
13:34 Minecraft Server
14:40 Power Consumption and Cost
15:39 Closing Thoughts
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Music (in order):
"Hardware Haven Theme" - Me
"If You Want To" - Me
"CRENSHAW VIBES" - GARRISON ( / garrison-brown )
"Town Groove" - Me
"The Butterfly Nose" - GARRISON
"VULF JAMS" - GARRISON
"Living Mice" - C418 (c418.org)
"Dog" - C418

[@Nemesis-pe7mw]

Nice, video. I do think it's important to note that this setup comes with limitations. - Things like transcoding are going to be limited to 1 client and I'm be cusrious if it can even transcode a high bitrate 4k stream. - Very limited amount of SATA ports - Power usage (a rPI4 or other low power device might be the better option) - Power limitation, adding more disks will require a power upgrade - Disk life, This case was never made to be running multiple disks at the same time. So once you start adding disks you'll run into issues with them dying quickly - Reliability, for fun it's perfect. However, do not leave any important data on it! - You say nothing of backup, which is the most important thing

[@HardwareHaven]

All really good points! (Pinned this comment so others can easily see). I think the overall idea was more to just see some of the many cool things you can do with a PC that might be lying around the house or picked up for stupid cheap. Rpis are amazing (I have 3 currently), but sometimes aren't as affordable as people make them out to be. I wish I would've mentioned something about data integrity and backups though. I will try to be better about mentioning that in future content! Thanks for commenting

[@Nemesis-pe7mw]

@@HardwareHaven Hi, mate thnx. No worries the video was fine and any tech savy person should understand this. It's the non tech savy I worry about. PS A few ideas for videos that expand on your current setup: - Kubernetes cluster with some rpis + NAS or other hardware to distribute your docker load (keep in mind that the rpi architecture isn't x86). - A sonar/radar/transmission/sabnzbd/spotweb setup, this often blows users minds. Do make sure you check the legality before doing so!

[@Nemesis-pe7mw]

@@HardwareHaven Ow PS, would you be so kind and run a high bitrat to low bitrate transcode? Since you have it setup. I'd be curious how it'll perform.

[@HardwareHaven]

Unfortunately I already tore that system down for a different video. I haven’t wiped the drive though, so I can probably put it back in and give it a shot later on though

[@Nemesis-pe7mw]

@@HardwareHaven Although I really appreciate it. You shouldn't go out of your way to humor me. It's purely out of interest since I run a dual Xeon for plex myself.

[@hungrythundr4892]

I love small tech channels. Stuff like this is practical and just great to see compared to giants like Linus and Bitwit. Great work.

[@HardwareHaven]

Thanks! I think those guys do their thing incredibly well, and overall I think it’s good to have them in the tech space. But I like to feel like I’m representing a bit more of the real world for sure haha

[@instaceptor7236]

This 100%

[@Isaac-eh6uu]

Yeah once they get big it isn't the same. The information presented isn't as useful. This is as good as it gets.

[@waylonmorristexas4851]

Lol not small anymore 🤣

[@mihaelmiles7184]

Did you know good channels like this one?

[@ryanlong6247]

Honestly I thought you were a bigger channel based off the quality of the video. I look forward to seeing your future tech adventures.

[@HardwareHaven]

Dang! Thanks, Ryan!

[@Minisynapse]

1,7m views 200k subscribers later

[@richieboyw99]

Just a tip: you should add yourself to the docker group so you don't have to run docker commands with sudo. Not only is this easier but it is also good practice not to run stuff as root when it is not needed

[@HardwareHaven]

That’s great, thanks!

[@akatsukilevi]

@@HardwareHaven Or if you worry about Docker running as root(security concern), you could give Podman a try. Podman is a containerization system that's quite 1-by-1 with Docker(it runs Docker containers after all), but it runs as local user instead of root. It is quite nice, but a few things doesn't work straight away(For example Portainer)

[@jibrankhan499]

This question was on my exam yesterday 😩

[@TheoParis]

@@akatsukilevi pretty sure you can still use the podman socket file for some things that need docker api. not sure about portainer though

[@akatsukilevi]

@@TheoParis Most of time it works well, and portainer I tried but couldn't get it to work with Podman(probably some incompatibility?)

[@KooYu]

This tutorial is great for someone who is just starting to get what it means to repurpose your old machine. Although as some have pointed out, you WILL be limited by that hardware. Started a project like this 15 years ago with scrap parts I had lying around. Family needs have changed since then so now my NAS/TV box/jukebox is a lot beefier, with redundant storage and with lower power consumption. A mini-itx build really helps with integration into the living room (and the WAF of course) but severely limits your build/upgrade options, plus increases the cost in the majority of occasions. But hey, nothing beats having a sleek system besides your TV, right? Also, in order to further reduce power consumption you can spin down the disk(s) after some idle time (although when you have just 1 drive it's pretty pointless) and schedule a shutdown/restart during night hours. New sub :)

[@iBlond]

This video is well done! Editing, a coherent story line, love this! Been wanting to do something like this for a Minecraft server for a while

[@1Chitus]

10 months later, I know, but this video gave me some motivation to use all these stuff I have laying around at my house for good stuff like NAS or other stuff. The order you talked about each of the points, the things you did with that tiny old computer and the simple but really good editing made it look so professional. Well done (:

[@MASergeo]

It seems to be much more interesting, than tupical owerview of RTX3090 and core i9 =) As for me - i'm building home server with i5 3xxx and 8 Gb. And planning to test Proxmox ( sometime need to test diferent VMs). And even want to try synology OS ( as main home VM) - it seems rather interesting.

[@HardwareHaven]

That sounds like a sweet setup. I haven’t tried using proxmox yet, but it’s in the list. I do have a Synology NAS and I’ve been really happy with it so far.

[@alexthenr1019]

I would take a i3 as cpu because it takes less Power than the i5

[@misham6547]

@@alexthenr1019 but it's less powerful

[@aborjlmao]

Videos like these deserve more attention. Straightforward and clean editing nicely done

[@-blackcat-4749]

Thank you for mentioning power consumption. Many youtubers ignore this aspect, but it's becoming more and more important. Even now running a NAS turns out to be actually pricey, and soon our American-based utility will more than double electricity cost "due to war in Ukraine", so I am looking for a capable but power-efficient option.

[@tocram2]

French guy here, living where electricity as well as every other energy source like city gas and gasoline are going batshit insanely expensive... I can't believe that even Americans have to put up with this "war in Ukraine" bullshit... The fact that we Europeans are impacted this bad for a war between Russia and Ukraine is already surprising... But you Americans ? Damn. I hope this gets sorted out soon.

[@TonyCR1975]

Mac mini 2012, cheap and nice

[@-blackcat-4749]

@@TonyCR1975 No ECC. I want ZFS. Need ECC for ZFS.

[@TonyCR1975]

@@-blackcat-4749 the mac mini 2012 server uses ECC. Note; theres two mac minis of 2012 The client version and the server one, take a look at the datasheet

[@flipperbooch2194]

I have two Mac minis, both the i7 quad cores, but have been struggling to find the server one, they do work really well for the $115 each I paid for them

[@jeffwayne3054]

You are doing a much better job at demonstrating and explaining things than some of the largest tech channels out there. Underrated channel. Subscribed instantly. Please keep up the great work!

[@rowanlovesmusic]

For anyone who is following along: when setting your static IP on the server make sure it's in the same "IP family" as the other machine's ethernet port you plan on ssh'ing through. You do that by typing "ipconfig /all" on Command Prompt (should be something like 169.254.x.x). I initially set a totally random IP and couldn't get it to work, spent 2 days scavenging the web for solutions and finally got to this trick. Then I just copied 169.254 and changed the other two numbers in the static IP and it finally worked!

[@stevegleizer5489]

all i was looking for, thanks a lot

[@RhD166]

This is such a high quality video and I adore your message to less experienced users to try linux since so many are scared by others trying to intimidate them. Kudos, man!

[@rgriffin9219]

Great job on this! I've been looking for something exactly like this! The format articulates everything well and is done very professionally. Subscribed.

[@Torbikini]

Love the idea here! Just something that people looking to use this for Minecraft might want to be aware of as I have previously had a server hosted in a similar fashion: 1. Your public IP will have to be given out and requires port forwarding knowledge/capabilities. Not a huge deal for just a friends only server, but be careful especially if you run older versions of MC that were affected by the Log4J vulnerability. 2. Unless you have a stable internet connection your friends may have ping and connection issues. 3. Depending on your player count, you’ll probably need faster hardware and more RAM, especially for modded Minecraft. Keep up the great videos!

[@SqulixyCr]

can we get an updated version?

[@ThatRandomDude914]

Yeah @hardwarehaven

[@akshatjain2444]

Please updated version

[@KhronoShadow]

Yep. an updated version would be nice. I want more details on how to use it as a nas, to set up a Raid, how to reach it remotely or how to create an App server on the same server

[@Masoronii]

just use truenas scale.

[@Trokumukum]

Yeah, an updated version for Ubuntu would be nice.

[@kadaverf]

Great video, awesome explanation, perfect editing. This is very inspiring as I am setting up a plex server these last few weeks and I will probably convert it to ubuntu as well after seeing this. I will just need to check the power consumption to see if it is better to fix something else first. Thank you very much and I wish you all the best from Holland!

[@HardwareHaven]

Oh thanks! Best of luck getting it all set up!

[@Tisargian]

This is great! I am just getting started with Linux and Docker. Following along with you helped me make more progress in one day, than I have made in a entire month. Big thanks!

[@BytePix_]

This is WAY more simple than I intended. I have severely overestimated the complicity of the setup. Thanks! I will be re-watching this when I make my own server from a desktop.

[@huskywolf8140]

I like the content like this. Most especially if they are quality made. At this pace, I wouldn't be surprised if this channel reaches more than 100k subscribers in less than a few months. Keep it up, I'll be observing with interest.

[@HardwareHaven]

Thanks!

[@organizedflow2360]

I wish more videos were like this, this tutorial explains every part of the process nothings left out, Great job

[@ScienceAlliance]

such a clean feeling video and channel for topics usually quite difficult to summarize and lay out in a neat way. Surprised i didn't find your channel sooner, Homelab, second hand cheap PCs and minecraft are right up my alley. Have a good day, your newest sub

[@lolitzgoofi2201]

My guy, this is a great video. I have been looking to get into a home server as I travel with work and being able to access my home network while away is awesome. Keep up the good work!

[@KitsuneScholar]

Thank you for this. I'm getting a refurbished mini computer to use as a server at home to replace the Pi that had been going, and you've gone over the major stuff I was curious about in the first parts(before plex). Excellent and concise.

[@Bwipy]

Hey Man, honestly great video, quick and informative, definitely something that I might look to do myself sometime in the future!

[@AlterPichu]

This is a really cool video! My dad has his own server he runs at his house for running Plex and what not, and when I used to live there he even helped out with making a Minecraft server for my friends and I using Docker. I never really would of thought this would come full circle where I am now being recommended videos about how to setup my own server that is cheap and affordable! I really enjoyed this video and glad I came across it.

[@keinzoom1275]

I really love the way of you presenting the whole process, like telling me a story.

[@mitchitv]

Brilliant build. I am also planning to build one same like this. It's great you were able to get a low-powered yet powerful enough system unit to handle all those processes in one box. I'm going for a small build, and will probably get a Dell Optiplex SFF from the second-hand market.

[@HardwareHaven]

Love it!

[@G-ra-ha-m]

Another option is an older laptop with USB ports and a reasonable processor (> pentium/celeron). They also have a built-in UPS of course, although external disks may not.

[@ssb1734]

Great starter project for someone just getting into technology looking for their initial home server build.

[@JayTavarez]

i have had a homelab for nearly a year and thanks to your video, i finally configured and learned how to use containers properly, THANK YOU!

[@tizioacaso3933]

This channel seems like a true gem, in these days i'm trying to learn more about networking etc... bc i've never learnt how to connect something to a server or connect two computers over the network, for now what i've learnt is about port forwarding (i've made a simple rust application which accepts messages from a client and with port forwarding it works over the network). Now that i've seen your channel and this video especially i'm gonna try to use stuff like ssh (maybe trying it over a different network with pf, it could be fun) and samba on a 2008 computer. Thank you

[@haydenc2742]

Highly recommend installing portainer, gui interface to docker containers Loving the video's! Keep em coming!!!!

[@HardwareHaven]

Definitely on my radar! Thanks!

[@Danni-8890]

I was floored when I saw this is a smaller channel! Keep this up you have some great content. I would love to see how I can access my server outside the house. Also allowing friends and family to use plex...but maybe that's one in the same. Either way thanks for this

[@HardwareHaven]

Oh wow thanks! I plan to do some more hosting/home server stuff where I’ll get into that, but if it’s something you’re looking for now, just search KZbin for port forwarding.

[@Danni-8890]

@@HardwareHaven will do thanks!

[@repairman2be250]

You know what? That is an excellent video, easy to follow and learn from. Not that I have a need for such a server myself, other might have. Hopefully they find your video and can enjoy a superb presentation. Well done.

[@raduavram]

old hardware recycling is very important to keep e-waste out of landfills. This video is very helpful and resourceful for people with such old computers that aren't good for gaming or work, but still functional enough for home server use and such! Good work!

[@gibbiemonster]

Underrated channel. Take my subscription.

[@HardwareHaven]

Will do haha! Thanks

[@michelemassa3029]

this was such a cool vid, I planned on giving it the typical treatment of "yeah thats cool I'll add it to the watch later that I never end up watching later..." but I got hooked from the beginning and watched the whole thing as it was so cool. Im now hoping to set my own up, thanks for the great vid!

damn, high quality video, it's hard to find a video like this and to pass on full knowledge like this, here in Brazil, it's even more difficult, I wanted to thank you for the beautiful video

[@MrNegius]

hey man, thanks for giving me the confident to start a home server!!!

[@HardwareHaven]

It’s a fun journey!

[@arkplays7310]

exactly what i was looking for my friend hosts a minecraft sever for our group of friends and we all pay him 1$ a month to host it due to needing to pay a provider so this helped us a lot we got together and made a server

[@Zoey-TV]

Definetly saving this video for later when I find time to try and set it up, sounds very promising and not too complicated thanks for the instructions 😊

[@diagon1321]

This is amazing! Really cool and creative idea. The video is really well put together too, top notch quality channel! Subscribed.

[@lucianoaguero6795]

Great tutorial, I think that was the best samba tutorial online, hope you add more drives to the server, that would be a good next video

[@zhihaowu208]

Awesome video! Super newbie friendly. Totally agreed to skip ubuntu server edition now, because no freshman wants to panic over the terminal.

[@Jornaotario]

just bumped into this video and already subscribed! Nice content!!!

[@maximofernandez196]

your explanation of docker actually made me understand it

[@whitebeartigtig]

I've been hosting a Minecraft server on an old 2008 Core 2 Duo SFF desktop for the last two years. It's been great, but it uses quite a bit more power than I'd like it to.

[@HardwareHaven]

You might be able to find a more modern low power prebuilt to switch it over to. That’s pretty cool that you’re able to use core 2 stuff for that!

[@dusandobranic2746]

You just earned new subscriber, recommended by yt algorithm. It not that bad sometime you can come across usefull videos like i did not the videos ot mainstream channels form 9 years ago

[@emmanuelonwuka3760]

You’re the GOAT. Looking forward to checking out your home assistant videos

[@jayson3900]

I've been waiting for this moment in my life. Heck yeah! Great video. This was a good refresher for me to clear the dust off my memory banks before digging into this in the near future.

[@RainbowSheep_was_taken]

The way he said "sudu" is killing me

[@ryjelsum]

Good pickup for the price! Very similar to the little x86 thin clients I've been screwing around with by Wyse/Dell and HP, except it actually has the space to use what little expandability it has! It'd be perfect if they threw on a PCI-E slot, either for a gigabit NIC or a card for more SATA, but oh well - machines like this and the thin clients I have are still very capable for what they are. The Wyse Zx0Q and HP T630 (and some T620 models) all have a pretty similar lineup of hardware capabilities - quad core, can take two M.2 or SATA SSDs, like this motherboard... they just don't have room to mount them, or actual power connectors to use, since the chassis is small. However! These are only 30-50 dollars on eBay, often with RAM, a power adapter, and even sometimes a small SATA/M.2 drive. The small size makes them very cheap to ship and therefore very cheap to pick up secondhand, and they're very hackable, especially the Zx0Q - there is 5V and 12V available on headers on the motherboard, and there is an even a FPC connector with a proprietary PCIE 4x mapping - you can get a riser, but the units with it are pretty expensive and much more rare. Maybe I could make a board to adapt that to a M.2 M-key slot... :)

[@HardwareHaven]

Yeah I’ve looked at a few of those and been curious! And that sounds like a pretty big project haha! I’d love to know how it works out if you get to it

[@jackjackerson]

Been looking for a few days for a decent guide on how to make a server out of my old pc that was easy enough to follow. Found this one and had it set up in minutes, lol. A+

[@mcdazz2011]

Great video. My first takeaway from this video was using SSH from Powershell (and I've been using Powershell since it first became a thing all those years ago). I've been down the Plex route already, and Minecraft doesn't intrigue me at all, but Home Assistant does. Must admit, I did come here hoping to find an el cheapo Raspberry Pi alternative, but I stayed for the content (and Subscribed).

[@luki8806]

It's a good build as a home server, I have the same things mentioned in the video in a rpi4 4 gig :) Plex, MC server, Resilio, network shares, pihole, vpn, raspotify, can be used as a BT speaker and much more and it peaks at 6 watts :) Also you can learn a lot while building it up, good stuff, highly recommend.

[@huntersipe7659]

hey i’m considering making a home media server for my family and i for Plex and to backup photos is a raspberry pi a good alternative to what he did in the video i have 9 people in my family and I’m not sure if that will be too much for a raspberry pi

[@luki8806]

@@huntersipe7659 It's fine, I have around 25 family members and it can handle the photo/video backup easily. The plex part is tricky, make sure that every movie you want to drop in plex is x264. If yes, it means that no transcode is required, your limiting factors are now the speed of the storage and the network. I have 720p movies in x264, 7-8 simultaneous streams are no problem, but I use an external USB HDD caddy to store the movies and the pi shares bandwith between the network connection and the usb. If you have a nas then you can eliminate the usb/network bottleneck and push more streams out. Just make sure that your upload speeds can handle it.

[@colbyboucher6391]

Surprised a Rasperry Pi can handle all that.

[@luki8806]

@@colbyboucher6391 It can handle even more with proper cooling. Have a look at tdarr. Just set it to convert all my videos (lot of old family videos including VHS rips), to convert it to h264. Currently it saved ~70GB, I'm really impressed with that and it's still have to process more than 1TB video in various formats. I also want to convert everything to h265, but currently it drops a conversion error, have to figure out why it's not working. Yeah, I know, converting videos with rpi feels wrong, but it runs 24/7 with good cooling, so I don't care if the conversion took months to complete. Eventually it will finish and I don't have to power on my main rig for days to achieve the same result.

[@stephenf7251]

I'd love to see something like this being done with a raspberry pi or something else that's a little bit newer and more upgradable in the future for running servers.

[@olympusaction2824]

you can just follow his guide its exactly like the pi beside useing a micro ssd instead of a usb

[@711_skiddlz]

There are a lot of videos doing that

[@subnumeric]

This is a really nice video! Short, to the point, with tight, but not rushed editing... just lovely! I also wanted to say it's refreshing to see someone not complaining about how hard installing Ubuntu, reading an article and adding 5 lines to a file is. Because that's essentially 90% of doing anything on Linux! I'm sorry, I've watched like 10 videos about how the LTT Linus couldn't figure out this and that and I'm simply happy to see someone have a good experience =) Edit: Ah yes, you're like the first person on KZbin who noticed that Windows has ssh client! To this day I find tutorials showing how to set up putty or whatever even though it's completely unnecessary. BTW if you are willing to install software on your client, try sshfs builds for windows, you gen better performance and especially security than with samba, and it has a nice GUI manager too.

[@rexsceleratorum1632]

Working the command line is nothing to complain about when you are building a server, but not so when reviewing a desktop PC.

[@markjohnson4572]

Landed here via a KZbin recommendation (It works well sometimes !). Very informative for a newbie like myself and nicely put together. You've got a another new sub. Looking forward to watching some more of your content.

[@HardwareHaven]

Sometimes the algorithm ain’t too shabby. Glad to have you here!

[@w116tjb]

Make sure to check the production dates on those used drives. That one you showed is around 7 years old, which is getting close to when it will typically fail for a platter drive.

[@PotatoPCGamerz]

it also is an SSHD, which is a HYBRID drive (SSD and HDD in one drive)

[@infiniteblaz3416]

HDDs can live way longer than that buddy unless they’re cheap. I use two WD drives that are almost 14 years old and they still work just fine.

[@txma.]

I would personally add a second 2tb hard drive and run it in Raid so that if you have any failure in a hard drive you have a backup. You won’t have 4tb of storage, just 2tb of secured back up storage and it would only add $15-20 to the overall price

[@ImDippinIn]

As a windows only gamer guy that’s always fascinated with budget stuff and interested in good yet budget friendly servers, thank you for the entertainment :)

[@Simulacra001]

Fantastic video. You’ve earned my sub and I look forward to seeing how to make the Minecraft server accessible from outside of the network. I’ll be moving my Jellyfin server over from my main PC too.

[@JungleMotorSports]

FYI the Seagate hard drive you used, is a hybrid drive, it has 8gb of SSD that it does sort of a caching thing with. General computer usage yeilds a better expirence over normal tradiitional spinning hard drives. Considering the size of the case, I'd prolly velco/ziptie the power brick inside to save desktop/floor space. Also even though they cost more an SSD uses like 1/3 as much electricity as a spinning hard drive. Thanks for th video, coudl you do us a favor and list all of your commands in the video description?

[@broodjenoodles]

Also, i dont recommend installing the desktop version but only the server cli ubuntu. Is more optimized for this stuff

[@somerandomchannel_]

thank you very much for showing me this (specifically the minecraft and NAS) i did this on my raspberry pi and now host my own little fabric minecraft server in the NAS directory so i can edit the configs on my main computer and text editor and restart it easily

[@draggero]

Great video! Well made, easy to watch and listen to. It definitely gave me some ideas and is going to send me down a rabbit hole!

[@John_Kap]

One note: If you dislike Ubuntu or don't trust it cause it is a company and not an organisation you can chose ANY other distribution of Linux you like that is based on Debian. Then the tutorial/informative video here will work.

[@Dhalucario]

I recommend RockyLinux/CentOS for something stable and well documented. Or Fedora if you don't mind the maintance. Fedora basicly does what Ubuntu promises in a way more free and open way.

[@gamer_rares5512]

the minecraft server didn'nt work

[@LeeAnnC]

Funny enough, i did something almost exactly like this 6 months ago. I had a spare laptop laying around that had windows 7 still on it. So i looked into converting it to an ubuntu-server instead. I remember the process being a bit rocky, mostly due to running the mc server. The conversion went beautifully. i got it all setup headless (despite being a laptop the keyboard is completely broken so i opted out of the DE). And it's worked like a charm since. I'm really happy to see you encouraging people to try out Linux even if it seems scary at first. I dipped my toes in for my server and later ended up converting my main laptop into Manjaro.

[@HardwareHaven]

That’s awesome! And yeah I was similar with Linux. Having a system similar to this was how I got more comfortable and confident in Linux. I don’t use it for desktop use, but a lot for server and development stuff

[@DavidRajM]

This is awesome...My long time dream is to setup a home server and I didnt know how to do so. This video has given me the hope. Thanks Haven!

[@auknix]

Great video. Narrated well and to the point without all the filler of the bigger channels. If youtube stopped paying out money for videos, I think all the remaining content creators would produce useful videos like this.

[@russoft]

fantastic! This covers everything I want out of a server. I was thinking of throwing Blue Iris on as well, but I think it's better for that to be a dedicated system.

[@TheRighteousDawn]

This is perfect timing from the algorithm, I was just thinking about setting up a home media server. Awesome vid!

[@HardwareHaven]

Glad it was helpful! I have a few other videos on the channel that I honestly think might be more helpful if you're interested. This is just the one that took off for some reason haha

[@JisMortal]

Bro your shorts are good. Glad I ran into it

[@Steemy]

This video is exactly what I needed, an absolutely stunning job sir

[@krypto8067]

I like your channel, the music you use (reminds me of summoning salt), and the good bitesize information you provide. Keep it up! Liked and subscribed.

[@noelk6990]

Loved how you made this from cheap accessories that are available....you did it manh🔥🔥

[@tysontheember]

Thank you, i plan to host my own Minecraft server soon and this helped me see how much better it is to host it then rent it.

[@thatnonsensegamer3933]

This is the video i was searching for past few days! Thanks brother

[@kevinlegobrickmaster8015]

This is such a fun video to watch, I have a lot of old hardware some not even super old just laying around doing nothing would love to do something like this in the near future for fun. Dropped a sub too

[@CayoBuay]

Great content, thanks for keeping it simple for everyone to follow and good for starters. Good budget friendly build.

[@matinvatankhah5224]

hello, after tryin out windows server and openmedia vault and truenas for my old pc which i wanted to use to store video files to edit from, and coming to many failures on all of them, this helped me through all of the process of getting my fileshare working, thank you so so so so so so much, you're my goddamn hero.

[@edlippjr]

great vid man! crazy what can be done with an old desktop from the closet!

[@utkarshdharmadhikari6816]

Bro, keep up the good work! This is the only tech channel that does some real 'techy' stuff.

[@stevenm7933]

Forever calling it SewDew (sudo) from now on! instead of Sue Dough (sudo)! Perfect Video! Easy to understand, straight to the point and works perfectly! Keep up the good work!

[@robinn7183]

Nice video, nice background music. Setting up my own Minecraft server is so cool. looking forward to it. Want to change my single player world to change into multiplayer soon.

[@Bernoeofficial]

Awesome work and great video! I've been running Home Assistant off a Raspberry Pi for over a year now, but am looking into getting a cheap, small PC to do something like shown in this video to also run Plex, a Minecraft server and a home server.

[@freezypop3496]

Excellent video! Very thorough and informative.

[@joeyjojojr.shabadoo915]

Great Video. I have avoided Docker because I was convinced that it would be easier to just spin up a new Ubuntu Srv VM for each app that I wanted to host. You made it look easy and I am going to re-consolidate things here now. Thanks.

[@demipy]

You should take a look into portainer for docker management or LXC with Proxmox

[@brooksmortensen3231]

I’m commenting in hopes that it will get the algorithm to show me more videos like this. Love it! ❤️

[@reviewnfts4656]

Great video, even greater back ground tunes! Lol I saw the keyboard I hope you make these background tracks they are really fitting and well composed

[@HardwareHaven]

All of the music is in the description. Some of it is me and some is from other artists. Thanks!

[@diegof3854]

In case you don't know it yet, a very small tip that will save you some time: as soon as you start working with the terminal, just type "sudo su" to authenticate yourself as root, so you don't have to type sudo everytime before your commands. if you want to go back to normal user credentials, type exit or restart your terminal/ssh connection. Nice video btw. :-)

[@leightaylor8069]

What a great video. Particularly interested in Home Assistant. Thanks.

[@ItachiUchiha-nx2sw]

The video explains why you have high subs despite low video count! Keep it up!

[@aligaming7665]

This is the best video I saw this week

[@snowcoalRC]

Great video. A lot of people dont realize you can make a personal server out of basically anything. I made my own NAS recently using a basic box i got on ebay for $150, no drives included. I bought some drives, insalled unraid, and now I have a great NAS that has tons of expandability.

[@HardwareHaven]

Nice! I’m actually working on an unraid server video currently

[@mickeytheriac4132]

Stumbled across this by accident and it was exactly what I needed to know.

[@OHKNEECHAN]

I really appreciate this video as I really want to build my first home server yet nothing too crazy.

[@Wizardofozk]

This is stupid good I'm confused in some parts but I don't have plans to run my own server yet but will keep this video in mind.

[@newfolder999]

Now i know what i can do with old computers in the storage. Thank you!