I came upon this idea recently as I've been doing the job hunt looking for a more challenging/better one and I've noticed a gap in my knowledge of various things. While I am confident in developing with technology I've used in the past few years, my work is mostly within a Windows environment. Occasionally I use a little Linux here and there. I'm very much a hands on learner and while reading and studying stuff is certainly helpful it's not enough to get me really confident with it.
To resolve this I've gone deep down the rabbit hole of the private home server hobby in the last couple weeks. This subreddit made me especially interested.
Anyway, I've purchased an old small business server off of Ebay for like $120. It has four hd bays and 2x 1TB drives already in it. I also have a raspberry pi I am going to be putting to some use. So I figured I'd start this thread about it.
This is my current plan. I'll be setting this up the weekend after this one when the server arrives.
Anyway, should be fun! I have the raspberry Pi in my nightstand because that is also where my router is. The server will need to go next to it for now as it needs a hard connection until I figure out a better place for it.
To resolve this I've gone deep down the rabbit hole of the private home server hobby in the last couple weeks. This subreddit made me especially interested.
Anyway, I've purchased an old small business server off of Ebay for like $120. It has four hd bays and 2x 1TB drives already in it. I also have a raspberry pi I am going to be putting to some use. So I figured I'd start this thread about it.
This is my current plan. I'll be setting this up the weekend after this one when the server arrives.
- Rasperry Pi
- 32GB SD card and I attached my old 120GB USB passport drive to it just for space.
- Arch Linux OS - I chose this because it is the most lightweight version of Linux I've read about so far.
- Nagios - Practice using Nagios, it will just be monitoring that other server I bought for now but good practice all around.
- Other services
- Dell PowerEdge T110
- Container Linux OS - I chose this just so I can practice using containers only for shit I install on it as this distro does not have a package manager at all.
- State stalked by Nagios on my Raspberry Pi, will see if I can direct this feed to my phone.
- Containerized MongoDB
- Containerized PostGres
- Containerized Plex
- Some IRC opensource thing
- Whatever apps I develop that need hosting.
Anyway, should be fun! I have the raspberry Pi in my nightstand because that is also where my router is. The server will need to go next to it for now as it needs a hard connection until I figure out a better place for it.