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Building a Low-Cost Home Storage Server: Part One

This article documents the process of building a backup server.

Introduction

This year, I considered building a dedicated machine for data backup. Firstly, due to increased travel demands this year, the historical devices have been used for several years, and I need a newer device to take over; secondly, I want to verify the reliability of the solution to address some production environment needs I have encountered and my friends' issues.

Since I have already purchased several Synology devices, and this year the

2025-01-13

How to Build a Home Server – Architecture Edition

With the rapid development of the internet and increasing bandwidth, people's demands for the internet are no longer limited to just browsing. The need for home servers has also become more prominent. Apart from spending a lot of money on ready-made NAS servers, building your own machine as a server offers better cost-effectiveness and expandability than buying a NAS. Today, let’s explore how to set up a home server.

First, let’s

2025-01-12

Building a Home Server: Upgrading Hardware, Port Mapping, Wake-on-LAN, Auto Startup, Bastion Host, Personal Homepage, and More

1. Upgrading Hardware

Added memory and hard drive to my home server. The current configuration is: Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q commercial mini PC I3-6100T 32G + 4G 240G SATA MLC SSD 512G NVMe PCIe 4.0 TLC SSD. ESXi base system installed ALMA 9 + 1 Panel

2025-01-11

How to Use Raspberry Pi Desktop Without a Monitor

Zhaoolee has started a long series on GitHub titled "Raspberry Pi Doesn't Gather Dust" https://github.com/zhaoolee/pi. It has currently been updated to 18 articles, mainly focused on using Raspberry Pi to install Ubuntu as a home server.

Coincidentally, I have an idle Raspberry Pi 4B on hand, and I plan to deeply explore the Raspberry Pi desktop version, which led to this guide.

First, find an SD card to flash the image

2025-01-08

How to Set Up a Raspberry Pi 4B Home Server: Installing Calibre Web for Public Access to Your E-Book Library

Recently, I have been organizing my collection of e-books to make them accessible online. Although the Calibre desktop application is powerful and can enable local HTTP services, the HTTP interface is rather simplistic.

I discovered an open-source project called Calibre Web, which has a very nice interface, supports multi-user management, and can be deployed directly on a Raspberry Pi home server without a desktop environment!

Calibre Web GitHub repository: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

This article serves as a deployment guide for Calibre Web on the

2025-01-05

Building a Raspberry Pi 4B Home Server: A Guide to Setting Up an Open Source Free Jellyfin Private Cinema Using an Idle Laptop

Jellyfin is an open-source free private cinema (media management) system that helps us manage the film and television resources on our hard drive and add beautiful posters.

Jellyfin can record our playback progress; for instance, if a movie is played to 10 minutes and 20 seconds on device A, it can continue from the same point on device B.

Jellyfin has a complete user management system, allowing family members to have independent accounts without affecting each other's playback progress.

Jellyfin supports client playback

2025-01-04

How to Access Your Home Server Remotely?

This year during the New Year, I brought back a DIY small server and set it up at home to create a resource sharing service, allowing family members to store and share some photos and videos taken with their mobile phones. However, since I'm not usually at home, if any issues or failures arise, I need to remotely log into the home server to handle them. So the question arises: how can I bypass multiple layers of networks and access

2025-01-01

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Introduction

First, find an SD card to flash the image

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