A couple of weeks ago I spat the dummy with windows and shifted to Linux. I think I am now ready to drink the coolaid.
What I have available currently is an ISP router and a decade-old gaming PC with a failing hdd that used to host games. I also have some budget to spare so that I can set things up nicely or in a way that I can add on it in the future.
Here are my goals are in order:
- Proper onsite and maybe offsite backups - my migration to Linux illustrated gaps and I expect in the future I will run VMs that should be backed up
- Home security cameras (Which I don’t own yet)
- Replacing something like onedrive. I expect this will be NextCloud
- Yarr. Sonarr/radarr/jellyfin
- Hosting game servers
- Block adverts and maintaining privacy
- Improve the latency of my steam link to my TV via chromecast
- Hosting webscraping and analysis of data off some local websites
- Maybe set up some some smart home automation things
- I’d like to get solar power and monitor how the whole setup is doing.
- Self host my bit warden
- I dunno, backup Wikipedia or something. Give me ideas
So where would you recommend I start off with hardware? Simply replace the old pc hdd or look to having a NAS? A better router to handle VLAN? Go all in with Ubiquiti products which I have heard mixed things about? About the only thing I know is that a UPS would be a waste for an aspiring enthusiast like myself.
Any advice or pointing me at wikis or other resources would be greatly appreciated.
It sounds like you’re having trouble containing yourself.