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Workplace retiring some PC's - thinking of grabbing one to do my first self hosting on - which one of these should I take? (specs inside) (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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Hey all, been wanting to get into self hosting for a while. I won't be doing a whole lot - probably just a Plex server and photo/video archives.

Maybe a personal assistant if I get really bored, lol.

At work, I've got a selected of taking either:

HP Prodesk 400 G4 - i5 7th Gen

Dell Optiplex 7020
Dell Optiplex 3010
Dell Optiplex 3040 All Intel i5

Let me know if they're all shit too, lol.

Many thanks

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Take all of them and build a cluster.

Or whichever one is newest/has the best CPU, you didn't really give the specs. And then take the drives and RAM from the others and max it out.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Thanks. Yeah, didn't give the full specs - my bad. I'm gonna take the 7020 and maybe the G4. Another question though -

Am I right in thinking if I self host, storing a bunch of movies locally, I can then connect to my self hosted server from another location/computer and stream my personal library?

Thanks

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

On the same network yes. If you want to do it from elsewhere, you should use a VPN, don't expose stuff like Jellyfin to the Internet.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

How would I connect to the same network from so far away? Is that impossible?

If I want to connect from far away, would a simple NordVPN do the trick?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Run a VPN server on your system and expose that. Then connect to it with the VPN client on the remote system.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

I see!!!! Thanks, great tip.

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