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First home server advice (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hey everyone, I'm planning on setting up my first home server this year. Going to use an old Dell Optiplex with a couple 4tb SSD's.

I only need two services running. Jellyfin and immich. I've tested this out in a debian netinstall VM and it works.

Just looking for helpful hints or advice etc. I'm a long time Linux and BSD user and I'm tempted to try it out using Alpine Linux or even NetBSD (my daily driver os) but I thought I'd be sensible and go with Debian for.... Stability?

Anyway, immich is run in a container whereas jellyfin has a binary install. Apparently you can run jellyfin in a container also, not sure I really need to tho?

Thank you for any hints or advice.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I really like running proxmox and then containers for my apps, proxmox being basically Debian already.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Explain proxmox to me like I'm 5. Is it a VM? I see a bunch of scripts on their website, but i'm confused...

    Nevermind, I had an LLM explain it to me. This looks like the go!

    Would you run both containers (jellyfin & immich) inside the same VM? or create a separate VM for each service?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    There is no need to have them on separate VMs, as containers are already isolated and additional VMs will add more overhead.

    It is worth exploring the LXC containers too, even though I prefer Docker with compose for its declarativeness.

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