7 Benefits of Having a Home Server

In this video, we'll take a look at some of the benefits you get from having your own server, and how setting one up isn't as expensive as you may think.

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Contents of this video:
0:00 - Introduction
0:25 - It provides a central location to store all of your data
1:31 - It is always powered on and available
2:06 - It takes the load off your other devices
2:38 - It provides an excellent platform for a home automation system
3:54 - It isn't as expensive as you may think
5:23 - It can make an effective backup solution
6:47 - It can be used to setup and host virtual machines
7:59 - Wrap up

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[DrKsTsHdW]

Good video. I finished watching the video and was going to look through the comments to see what other people had to say, but was surprised to see there were none. I found this video through youtube recommendation and think your videos are informative. I hope me seeing this in recommended is a sign that youtube has caught your channel in the algorithm and wish you the best of luck!

[TheWoodsie]

Really cleared up a few questions for me - thanks!

[aliservan]

For those put off by setting up or building your own server, a NAS has many of the same benefits and something like a Synology is well supported with very easy to use applications and a brain damaged chimp can set one up in about 20 minutes.

Another awesome use for a home server is emulating old game consoles and computers. You can actually play Brutal Sports Football on an Amiga emulator and stream it to a big TV. Seriously, it's some of the best fun you can have with your pants on.

[Sekib_Nave]

It's kind of funny how cheap building a home server can be, I recently built a dual CPU server for my home using older X5650 Xeons (six-core, twelve thread, turbo to 3.06GhZ), and a Quadro 4000 (not a p4000 those are far too fancy for my taste), the total cost was around $250-$300 (USD)

[beepolar]

tx! these days you hear a lot of stuff about home lab, servers etc: very few of them explain why they are useful. you convinced me to built one :)

[mcaseupton]

This is a good video. Media is streamed these days but the other points were good. I liked your channel

[tejasdhamnaskar]

Yes subscribed ... your content is actually good... this channel is on the way towards getting big

[bryonmiller]

My friend is the head of IT at his job and he just gave me on of their 2u rack servers they were replacing with new equipment. I have no rack so it just sits on a dresser but hey it works just fine. For me this is the ultimate dweeb toybox, it's like an emulator box that actually runs several emulations at one time in real speed. I thought it would be expensive to run but it's not using a lot of power since I have no extra cards or drives in it. The plex server was cool and I saved money by not having to pay my host to host my website anymore.

[aimannorazman]

This is good content. You make compelling points. Keep up the good work!

[benjaminvelema]

I am 16 currently and i cant affort a server but i have some harddrive i placed stickers on them for every room off the hous and i manage it all on 1Terabite harddrives.. 😁 i manage it very good and networking

[mrfoameruk]

I bought a 32tb server unit for £200 just wanting the drives. Thought I'd boot it up and boy what a noise compared to my desktop which makes next to no noise. Been messing with it and a great toy to play with. Looking on how to stream games from it. I hope you do well on YouTube.

[dpsfitness]

Are we talking having a plex server? Proxmox with home assistant etc? Love the channel by the way.

[switbeee]

Thanks HN Geeks, I need a server but I am wondering wether sharing files over a network switch and having a server makes a difference. I have noted a couple listed below:
1. Servers make sharing easy? How? a switch does and shared folders can work on the same network exactly the same way it does on a server. Same goes with organasing files, you can organize files with or without a server
2. Servers stay on thus makes it easier to access files. Why switch off your desktop to start with if you are having problem waiting for it to boot? I mean when there Is power cut, now you will have to switch on both now.
3. Let the server process your tasks. Sounds about right
4. It provides an excellent platform for a home automation system. Sounds about right
5. It is not expensive as you think. This is not an advantage. Isnt a server expensive compared to using just a switch?
6. It can make an effective backup system. Do you need a server to have Off-site backup?
7. It can be used to install and host virtual machines. I currently have windows and Mac on different hard drives, how is a server better in this regard?

[ArizonaJewell]

I just finished transitioning my DIY home server over to Debian from Windows 10. I had an old laptop lying around, so I set it up as a quick & dirty combination Minecraft and Plex Media Server. I first set it up about a year back, and I had never used Linux before so I gave up on trying to install Linux on it and just used win10 with all graphical effects and whatnot disabled. Win10, AT IDLE, was using 2 GB of the 6 GB of RAM that the laptop has, and I’ve got Linux experience now so I wiped win10 and installed Debian with no desktop environment/GUI. Debian is using 115 MB of RAM at idle, so much better. It really isn’t much, it’s just a 2012 laptop with a 750 GB external hard drive plugged in. Only modification I did to it is I removed the old internal 750 GB hard drive it had and installed an old 256 GB SSD I had lying around. The laptop has a 2nd gen core i5 in it, but it works surprisingly well considering it’s running both plex media server and a minecraft server.

It’s been super fun to set up. Currently have it set up with SSH so I can remotely manage it, and just finished setting up ufw on it for some simple security.

[kamjohnson]

I have an old hp laptop eyeing me in the corner of my room, im bwyond tempted to turn it into a home server

[WisdomAndEase]

Hey I'm just starting off in this whole networking thing and studying for my Network+ cert. Just curious since I am new to all of this, does the home server have to be kept on the whole time?

[craigschannel]

Yeah is there a way to take a load off of my android phone using a home server?

[thetechcorner]

Just got myself a server for £150, 2 e5 2670 and 64gb of ram, also a 2u chassi along with the psu and heatsinks and fans. 120gb ssd for the minecraft servers too, awesome price/performance

[RunStunNGun]

You look like your on the verge of sneezing but can’t get it out

[cricketol]

a home server is also good if you want to play a mmo offline