Home Server Hosting Hardware - What Should You Buy And Why?

You'd love to host a gaming server or website at your house but what hardware do you need to use? In this video, I will give you some tips you need to know to pick the right hardware to host a server at home. And then I will give you some pointers on where to find that hardware for a good deal. You may not even need a "server" at all! I used to run half a dozen websites on a single Raspberry Pi a few years ago. #homehosting #homeserver #serverhosting

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[sethg]

Finally! I have been looking for this type of video series for days! Thank you for the great content!

[gundog]

I considered getting a rack-mounted server for home use, mainly for continued learning & testing for my job. Technology's always evolving. What changed my mind was power usage (high wattage), fan noise, and cooling. Especially, if planning to run it 24x7. My home office is already 3 - 4 degrees F warmer than the rest of the house just using a desktop, laptop, stereo, and TV. My home power bill would likely go up $30+ a month just running the server (assuming running 24x7). More if I need to factor in extra cooling (ie. Air-conditioning) to keep the room temperature reasonable.

I have a Synology NAS and love it. Had it about 3 years now. A little bit of an up-front cost, though. I suppose it could be an option for light workloads (lower power usage, not noisy, and cooling concerns are negligible). I've tinkered with the Virtual Machine Manager, but never tried running a web server on it though.

[spencerallen]

Looking to tackle this project this week. Looking to host my own at home security system, as well as a few terabytes of data on a local network storage, possibly do some virtual machines for gaming and testing linux out for the first time. I appreciate all your help!

[adamcorv]

This video was very helpful for me I was lenient towards building my own server but this video helped me learn about the “obsolete” server market and managed to go from a 1200$ server I would build myself to 300$

[KentWillumsen]

Old servers are very enegy hungry. I bought a new Xeon based server with cash back so really cheap and it supported the current Esxi for vitualization.

[SwiatLinuksa]

I've done my nas/ftp home lan server few month ago..n specs? Asus EEPC b202 (atom 1.2ghz, 1gb ram) external sata 3.5" HDD 4TB, Debian with no GUI, nfs share, ftp, torrent server and rsync server automatic backup from other machines :)) 15 Watts max ;)) for me the best and mega cheap. Thanks for share video!

[bishop]

Great video, I was wondering, when’s the next topic coming out?

[zoranaw]

Show us Production Scenarios for shared hosting. Virtualiser, OS, Cpanels, And account managment and payment. Complete software setup, and/or raid etc. Looking forward to next videos. Greetings from EU.

[brutusmaximus]

alight, i got you. lets see how this goes

[tzelG_]

WHICH CPU I NEED FOR E-COMMERCE? small business/startup. i want something very energy efficient but which can work as NAS and with home assistant too.

[jeremyhenderson]

Just checking out your other server videos, I should have watched this video first.

[chadisleiman]

So I am contemplating buying a multiple purpose server, but mainly to create labs. I want to host a couple VM's, some that could get resource intensive like EVE-ng especially if I start turning on all the virtual switches/firewalls/PC's inside of it. In addition I would like to use it as a remote back up site for my laptop/phones. I was also thinking of tinkering with building a website. Do you have any idea of what kind of hardware specs and OS I should be looking for?

[Tylercrayka-uosi]

Hi, I'm currently building a PC right now, the pc I have now isn't the best, even though I paid top dollar for it. I was one of the suckered that bought a pre-built from Dell. It's a Dell G5000 with a 9th or 10th Gen i9. I can't really remember the complete name of the processor, but I was wondering during if you thi k that would be decent enough to run a dedicated server for games like arma 3 or dayz, or anything other game like that?

[haroldcarney]

Did not cover my planes but it helped thank you

[tapantera]

Hitting all the things I was stuck on. Good channel.

[NoahThomas]

I want to build a server in the future for the sole purpose of using unreal engine projects with multiple users, so my question is, would it be a matter of just plugging in multiple user by ethernet into the server? so they can all work off the same project? Im new to servers so im not sure how stuff like this works.

[vittsy]

I need a server for MySQL. It will store about 10tb of data most of it will be pictures. Would you recommend a cloud server or home server. It will be connected to a website for car data

[islandlife]

thank you and will contact you for help

[ChelseasMarketing]

Hi, I really like your channel. I was wondering, I've seen videos of using old Macs to host a home server network setup. Would that work to also host a website?

[Nimvar]

How much would be a hardware for hosting 2-3 ark servers? 70 people but obviously like 10-20 people max on each?