With all this migration i’ve been inspired to start self hosting some services.

I am looking for a mini pc to ideally run linux and host a media server with radarr and sonarr, pihole and some other stuff as i start getting more into self hosting.

Any recommendations / experiences that you can give? Or some general guidelines on what i should look for or things to avoid.

Thank you!!

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’d be a bit wary of using a laptop. I use one (Dell XPS 13 9310) for a development DB server, and despite all the Windows power saving features being turned off, it goes to sleep after a few hours unless I keep an RDP connection open. The computer is set never to sleep and the wifi adapter’s power savings are disabled. Maybe I’m missing something, but I’ve hunted all over and not found a way to keep it on.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Obviously you would install Linux on it. Absolutely no difference to a regular server then.