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First Real Self Host Setup question (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

10g is of course only useful when all your devices have 10g ports. I have 2x 10g NICs in my server and a TP-Link switch that has 8x 1g ports and 2x 10g ports, the only time I would use 10g is between my server and my desktop, and that of course cost me like $100 just for the 10g NIC for my desktop. 10g isn't really that useful in a home network since most things are limited to 1g. I still can't believe that my $2700 flat screen from 2017 only has a 10/100 port on it....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahhh well then I should be good on 1g. Thanks for saving me some bucks though :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No problem! 10g sounds great in theory and then you realize that 99% of your connected devices are limited to 1g and there's nothing you can do about it.