What's on my Home Server? MUST HAVE Services!

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In this video we will overview the 5 services on my home lab that are a must! Running your own server can be as simple as a small Pi to a full dedicated rack mount.
Homelab: • My First HomeLab - Ser...
00:00 - What's a Homelab?
02:04 - Dashboard
02:45 - Docker GUI
04:07 - Media Streaming
06:27 - Downloading
07:41 - Monitoring
08:52 - Storage and Backup
10:54 - DNS Filter
1. Heimdall: • Meet Heimdall, Your Ho...
2. Yacht: • Docker made EASY with ...
3. Jellyfin: • ULTIMATE Jellyfin Medi...
4. Transmission-OpenVPN: • How to Install Transmi...
5. Uptime Kuma: • Uptime Kuma | Fancy Se...
6. Synology NAS (OR TrueNAS): • host your OWN data! Sy...
7. PiHole: • You're running Pi-Hole...
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[@user-re5le7ei3k]

This opens for me an entire world of configuring your own home server infrastructure! So important nowadays! Great video, thanks for sharing!

[@csolisr]

That folder name is, uh, suspicious? I know it's because you have a partition for the kids and another for the adults, but sheesh, /home/adults/movies/ sounds like the videos must be spicy

[@TechHut]

That always pops into my mind when I say it aloud lmao

[@jonathanzj620]

Who says they're not...?

[@Psyonikkk]

😂😂​@@TechHut

[@rollbacked]

as someone who uses the same transmission docker image, i highly recommend using the "Flood" theme, which can be added as an environment variable using TRANSMISSION_WEB_UI=flood-for-transmission

[@lyvendia]

You may have leaked your OPENVPN_USERNAME and OPENVPN_PASWORD at around 7:39.

[@TechHut]

Good catch thanks a ton. Changed it. Edit: This is exactly why you need a different password for everything.

[@Borsting89]

Well spotted. This is great to know for future reference if sharing that page at anytime.

[@MadOliveGaming]

the fact this guy only got 90ish likes in a year for potentially saving techHuts ads from the nasty ppl online is kinda oof. So take mine at least

[@RoryIsNotACabbage]

Bit late to the game but I highly recommend Fenrus as a Heimdal replacement. it's focused on speed while being much more customisable (Looks wise and different dashs between each user plus guest), and it has a Heimdal inspired theme that gives you similar looking links but separated by category

[@Mobin92]

What on earth will be slow in a simple HTML Website with a few links, that you need to specifically focus on speed?

[@bluesquadron593]

Those Linux isos

[@vaisakhkm783]

😆 and it was actually LINUX ISOs...

[@sexualsmile]

kzbin.infoPF77M2V0UYs?feature=share

[@TimkaSR]

Where

[@KieranMahoney]

What is the isos thing what’s the point in keeping them faster speeds lmao Genuine question

[@nffan696]

​@@KieranMahoneyr/whoosh it's usually used as a add in for pirated movies and tv shows but being indirect

[@jacquesdupontd]

I've been having the same kind of services (Plex, Transmission, Nextcloud, Adguard Home, Proxy, Shadowsocks, Vpn, Music Streaming, Remote Desktop (No Machine), Wake on lan (for other machines, Url Shortener script) etc) for years now and i couldn't live without them now. I wanted to tell you that recently i've been building the same kind of server with those services with the Oracle free tier and it works really well (max 4 ocpu and 24gb of ram)

[@rfrancoi]

GREAT video Sir. Got totally caught up watching it until I realized it was almost over.

[@wyattarich]

You just earned a new sub. Looking forward to watching you improve!

[@donaldwilliams6821]

Nice setup! Re: Mounting media. Any reason not to mount it NFS? Then use bg,soft,intr flags in fstab? So it will boot up when the NAS is down? I'm just starting to do more with docker, proxmox, LXC, etc.. It's quite interesting. Thanks for the video!

[@udittlamba]

thanks for the video, discovered so much through it today!

[@LearnEnglishWithMatta]

This was exceptionally helpful. Thanks brother 💪🏽🇺🇸

[@doords]

Do you have a way to monitor security on your server? Check to see which process is doing what to which other server and check for intrusion with good network data? I am very interested in your idea.

[@carl_thunder]

I used to run Pi-Hole as a container on my Unraid box but decided to move it to two dedicated Pi's that I had laying around. Now when I need to make modifications to Unraid which require restarts, it won't take down DNS for the house.

[@zly_kulak]

ITS REALLY WORKED LOL THANK YOU DUDE

[@KyleRassweiler]

A Heimdall alternative with a bit more customization is Organizr, but it's also a bit more complicated.

[@astrozsfe9672]

organizr is so awesome especially the fact that the links get opened inside the organizr page. I had less problems setting it up compared to heimdall or homer tbh

[@alecumihnea]

Dashy is good too

[@majorgear1021]

Homepage is even better!

[@NibsNiven]

@6:00 Using the *noauto* or *nofail* mount options in fstab to allow booting when a network resource is unavailable.

[@uuu12343]

Hi TechHut! Did you Port forward your servers? Or do you access it from outside your home network?

[@denalimike8159]

Do you have videos of how you installed these services? Great video by the way! Subbed!

[@therealstillie]

Have you got a video Portainer vs Jellyfin vs Rancher etc? Or whats the reason you chose Jellyfin over the rest?

[@TheWilldrick]

Hey Brandon, I'm trying to set up Lychee via Yatch but it's not running for me, any tips on how to set it up? I will only use it locally to browse the photos from phones and cameras I already have backed up on the same server.

[@PicSta]

What do you think about Nethserver? Similar approach except for the usage of docker containers.

[@jellestreefkerk9035]

Awesome! Question, how can that many movies only be on a 128gb harddrive?

[@jerzykaczmarczyk8657]

Nice video, it works!

[@jenniferw8963]

Thanks for the video. What do you think of Yacht vs Portainer?

[@shetuamin]

My heaimdall dashboard do not show any stats. Is this network issue between container? Do you have any video for heaimdall installation?

[@OneEightZero180]

If your main server outpaces the NAS, and you want to remount the shares afterwards without a reboot, run mount -a and it'll attempt a remount of the fstab remote share(s). :)

[@sarfured]

Better yet, mount the media CIFS as a volume in Docker and then pass it to Jellyfin. Then your computer can still boot if the NAS is offline.

[@Linrox]

Would have loved it if you showed how you configured nexcloud, with Synology

[@Bazsoton]

Hi What steps should I take to setup a home server with my online store website? Which editor you will recommend to create a online store website? Back in a day I was creating websites by using FrontPage but thats kind of old-school now 😉

[@AlexanderWeurding]

Nice share. Thanks!

[@jptepoztlan3994]

Please make a video about FEDORA and NVIDIA drivers, Im suffering the same expensive new laptop linux problem.

[@13thravenpurple94]

Great video Thank you

[@shrimpinpat]

I only have a pi 3 model b from years ago. I want to upgrade but as you know thats tough. Think i could run synology photos, a nas app and piehole? Or is that too much for this old boy

[@majorgear1021]

What is the cabinet you are using to store your home lab equipment in? I have a couple of servers in tower PC cases sitting on the floor that I’d love to get into a nice cabinet!

[@aslanenver]

Can you tell me how to install local vaultwarden?

[@yuvvrajkperson]

Can you elaborate on how you sort out the jumble of overlapping ports (multiple services using the same port 80), get domains pointing to each of your services (with a reverse proxy?) and get them on https? That is my only problem on my own server

[@AlbusRegis]

There are many ways to solve that problem and in the end it comes down to personal prefference. I am going to tell you how I did it so that you may draw some inspiration. I got a proxmox hypervisor running various services on LXC containers, each has its own private static ip and an entry in a local dns server so that everything can be accesed by domain names like "dns.mylab", "proxmox.mylab" or "nextcloud.mylab". Some of the services I use are used through a web interface, those containers have nginx installed on them and reverse proxy "localhost::port" to "https//service.mylab" so that there are no random ports to remember. I use one nginx per container for the following reasons: They are independent, they use standard https ports and it lessens issues with non standalone https reverse proxy situations. To manage the certificates I use XCA, I created a local CA certificate and installed that to my network devices. This allows me to use one certificate per container and domain without having to propagate the public key for all container to network device permutation. Last but not least, to use the services on the go I have a Wireguard VPN to connect from the outside, which allows me to expose only one port to the internet and bypass most cg-NAT issues as well. I hope this wall of text solves your doubts :)

[@yuvvrajkperson]

@@KejjRod i already use both of them and still things like certbot and nextcloud aio don't work

[@JohnDoe-wi7eb]

Could something like this be setup in a old netbook ?

[@randomdude12370]

If your NAS goes down you can't just unmount and remount? Also pihole doesn't block KZbin ads.

[@christiancrow]

Is there heavy security like a firewall ? , I can’t get a definitive answer

[@trunkscannon]

Do you know a good solution I can run on truenas like synology photos?

[@Blazekrieg420]

can an old ebook work as a piehole ?

[@RealMTBAddict]

Question: do you really need a VPN for security? I've heard conflicting suggestions. I thought I was getting hacked in the past but I think a bad Ubuntu version just broke my nextcloud. Now I'm on dietpie.

[@homesteadishdad]

Hey, quick question - what VPN do you use on your Fedora box? I can't seem to find one that wants to work with mine.

[@joemamium]

Wireguard CLI + VPS work well for me

[@Farnhamification]

ArcGis Pro question: if you have to use it for work (from home) would you dual boot with windows or still run a virtual machine. I'd imagine that the drop in performance would grate on you after a while. Thoughts?

[@SprunkCovers]

Geographer here that had to use ArcGIS Pro recently, I resorted to dual boot, also on my work they asked me to send reports on MS Office so I did both while the rest of the day I was on Ubuntu

[@Farnhamification]

@@SprunkCovers thanks! Yeah, I figured that would be the case. I've had issues with Excel and ArcGIS on Linux and resorted to dual booting, too. I'm hoping there will be a day when viable Linux options will become available

[@Seafury2004]

As someone looking to get into a backup NAS for the first time (rather than using the cloud) how worried are you about synology's hardware? As an outside perspective it just feels like another thing to go wrong. Rather than just having to worry about the HDDs, which can be saved in RAID or parity configs, now I have to worry about the synology hardware failing. If a motherboard or something in the box fails I have to send it back to synology to be repaired is my understanding. Is that true? Is it not as simple as like TrueNAS or Unraid where I can personally replace components and then recover my HDD data?

[@walterwhite2270]

Look into building a Truenas server....way more reliable and you can use your own hardware...if the motherboard fails you can put in a new one and be back where you were without data loss or waiting for a vendor hardware that may wipe your data when it boots up with your drives....

[@Mobin92]

If you are worried about your data, you just have to consider *every* storage medium as untrustworthy. If you have a proper strategy your NAS is allowed to break. Worst case you buy a new one and resync your data from your other backups to it.

[@MohamedAli965]

how did you learn all of this?

[@MarlonSardini]

Running jellyfin myself, love it. The big downside, for me at least, is the photo library, which is pretty buggy.

[@Joshua-ej6hz]

How do you get heimdall on VM?

[@antonw.zimakos8981]

Which interfaces gui on start video 0:50

[@heresjhonny702]

So, heimdall comes with openvpn?

[@programmierung1653]

What's about unraid?

[@rauljosegarcia]

what is the deal with docker? everything is docker everywhere now

[@bbizzle6901]

What OS were you running?

[@josephc8440]

Can I test and run local and contained ai on a home server?

[@desertshadow72]

No photoprism? You can read only mount to it from Synology photos

[@xsheeshx1313]

What OS are you running Docker on?

[@DjLundbladh]

What OS are u running on the server?

[@rahilarious]

One suggestion, sir. Reduce the size of webcam and increase of the actual content. It's hard to see even on TV forget about phone

[@realcartoongirl]

why you have servers but use raspberry pi just spin up a vm in the server??

[@marcello4258]

Router maybe but it does. it look like it could modulate and demodulate

[@cbaservs]

keep in mind when you use a zimaboard my internet speed was very much reduced. in other words the 1gb connection is not fully used. tried it, but dropped the project on my zimaboard

[@tim2120]

Does pi-hole block ads on Hulu

[@randominternetguy7426]

Hey a fellow centurylink user. Glad I’m not the only one who thinks it sucks

[@prombeats]

why not portainer?

[@CYBTHOR]

Excellent video! FYI, your PIA VPN credentials are visible @ 7:22

[@LonesomeSoliloquy]

128gb? are those compressed??

[@lettrsandnumbersss]

Hello, Love the vid! Have you made a video about hosting pihole and nextcloud at the same time on the same ip? Currently just getting started with this and having trouble hosting nextcloud and pihole at the same time, would love if you could make a video about how to set it all up like pihole, nextcloud and valutwarden.

[@Qzbub]

Never mount with fstab, cuz the whole server can stay errored out. Mount with crontab @reboot

[@coos3543]

I like the look of Synology Photos - if you ever stumble across a good open-source alternative that works well on a Linux server then I'd be keen to hear about it. Looking forward to the upcoming videos!

[@TechHut]

I'll keep a lookout for sure!

[@truthmatters7573]

Photoprism may be what you are looking for

[@coos3543]

@@truthmatters7573 Thanks, will check it out

[@pylotlight]

@@coos3543 or photoview, theres actually a ton of self hosted photo solutions, been looking for a good one myself recently.

[@droidchevere]

Get a sophos xg firewall and install pf sense on it .

[@UnsettlingSun]

6:45 *nods* I understand 😏

[@TheBlueAstro]

sales call?

[@dougtilaran3496]

My home server has a leopard halter top.

[@jabolko1k]

zima board have 2x relaltek network ports... disappointed because actually was thinking it would be nice pfsense router

[@CognitiveMeanderings]

lol "Kal-i-ber" just like .50 calibre. Great video though mate!

[@supahfly_uk]

I see Tux sticker, I press like.

[@jonathanrhodes3135]

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but you remind me of Glenn Fleshler in Season 1 of True Detective, and I don't know why.

[@postnick]

Pihole also doesn't block ads on KZbin.

[@AlbusRegis]

You have to make it so pihole is the only accesible DNS in your network, this is specially true for android devices since android 11 as they will ignore DHCP or manual configuration if they can reach google's DNS servers in any way. To achieve this the fastest way is to block outbound port 53 in your firewall for all devices but the one running pihole.

[@Didier-cu6cb]

No problem because we do not like software like KZbin and Spotify to be effective. He is a bit immoral and he is a KZbinr himself

[@kinto92]

Install proxmox + pfsense on that board!

[@Anonymous4045]

That's a lot of "linux isos" you got there in jellyfin

[@TwinTailTerror]

@TechHut thanks for the promote of yacht =3 stop by the self hosted discord sometime

[@Le.Chiffre]

I like this video

[@filipkamban]

OnlyOffice is incomplete. It doesn't have OneNote ....

[@nathanruben3372]

I will respect you, when you build your own nas.

[@The_Mup]

yo yo fellow chenbro rackmount case owner bro

[@june5646]

When did Destiny get into IT

[@HentaiNat]

Transmission is great, I use an android app to connect to it, filled up my 1tb server with a lot of linux ISOs for testing in VMs and 4K hd Japanese porn

[@YouTubeGlobalAdminstrator]

Linux ISOs are the best to download. :D

[@Raztax]

What is the advantage of running something like Jellyfin in a Docker container rather than just running it natively?

[@thejeewee1910]

would like to know also

[@ChrisDeger]

Are you Canadian?

[@TechHut]

No, I’m from Washington state. I have my VPN set there because that’s the nearest non-American server.

[@ChrisDeger]

@@TechHut ahh, i was like hey a felow canadian haha. Great video im trying to setup docker as we speak

[@EclipseMints08]

Damn, how were you able to afford all those movies?

[@DenzilFerreira]

Careful with showing shows/movies you may have… would blur those out.

[@Strez96]

I prefer Portainer over Yacht

when he ls ed on adult movies that's not what I expected to be printed ngl

[@redtrillix2]

I like Portainer as a docker container manager

[@tomashais9123]

I was looking for a normal crack for a long time and stumbled upon yoWay...

[@ccarofino14]

FYI you exposed your pia credentials at one point.. i suggest changing them

[@fernandomarvullecel]

I wish its get work

[@VeNinjaK]

Jellyfin over Plex?

[@youtube.user.1234]

:)

[@Signal_Lost.]

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