Home Servers & Homelabs

Could something like this work for a home server?

I'm a 16 year old with a small homelab too :)I used to have all of my services on cloud but since I got a 1G/1G home network and I found businesses decommissioning hardware and deals on local charity shops which source hardware from the landfill and give profits to charity missions, I decided to give it a go and try administering my own phisical servers. Currently running proxmox on 2 machines with one NAS and 14 spinning disks, with some Minecraft servers, personal programming proj

I think he's talking about running a server from home.

Sounds like a great plan for home servers.

That's exactly the right excuse to buy yourself a second hand mini PC and install proxmox / tailscale on it ; )

Is there any necessary reason to run a home server in 2022?

Have you looked at /r/homelab?

My "homelab" is only used for things that actually provide value to me. I host a Matrix server for chat, Home Assistant, a Minecraft server, plus a few hundred gigs of backups and photos/videos.I don't really know if I qualify though. All that's on a 2011 Dell, a 2-bay Synology nas, and a UPS I found on Amazon. I have zero urge to go out and buy a rack; it works great as is.

Looks like I found that "home server" to replace my over-use of cloud resources that I've been looking for!

If you have a reasonable internet connection at home this might be the moment to get your own server. Next to online storage (Nextcloud/Owncloud, Seafile) it can host your mail (postfix/exim w/dovecot + spamassassin + sieve), source repo (gogs/gitea), miscellaneous web things you might want to host, media streaming server (airsonic, ampache, etc), personal VPN (openVPN) and more. This gives you far more flexibility (and storage) than commercial online storage/sync soluti