Raspberry Pi Home Server - Docker, Portainer, Plex, Wordpress, and More

I know the Raspberry Pis aren't designed to be run as a "home server", but that doesn't mean we can't do it.

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0:00 Intro
0:41 Hardware/Case Assembly
5:38 Software
7:10 Portainer
8:25 Wordpress
11:16 FileBrowser
13:29 PiHole
15:00 Plex
16:23 Heimdall
18:41 Power Draw
19:10 Conclusion

[phreakedout]

I like that you didn't edit out your errors. Shows integrity. Solid stuff.

[tomvanhal]

Super nice video, i have running OMV5 on a raspberry pi4 4gb. Connected 2x 6 tb external drives. Service running cloudflare, wordpress, nginx proxy, fully automated dl with radarr, sonarr, jackett, transmission, vpn. Plex, duckdns, heimdall, portainer, pihole, YouTube dl. And on a second pi running home assistant for managing all the smart and not so smart devices in the house.

[souravshenoy]

I just was looking for the perfect video and finally found it, literally 15 minutes after it's upload. Thanks a lot to the makers

[michaelgkellygreen]

Great video. I had Docker running already on my pi4 but wanted to install Portainer. Opens up so many more options for the Pi. Keep up the good work.

[cynaptic]

Just wanted to say thank you for the video. You have pretty much convinced me to consider getting a Raspberry Pi 4. Hopefully sooner than later. I have tinkered with Docker / Portaininer / PFsense / Cloudflare DDNS / Remotely and others - all on my Synology NAS. I think the Raspberry Pi would be better suited as it would be dedicated as the main part of any Home Server / Network backbone; at least from an economic/power efficiency point of view. Thanks again for the time you have invested in sharing your knowledge. I have now subscribed to your channel.

[PoeLemic]

Great intro to the potential with the newer Raspberry Pi's. They have really become capable. Also, be a good and light-weight test bench for various Dockers. Thanks for giving us ideas.

[richarddaugherty]

I have been running Plex and Calibre on a Raspberry Pi 4B using that very case for about 3 years now. I'm up to 1100 movies, 60 TV series, and over 800 books. I'm using 6 Seagate 10TB drives (3 primary and 3 for backups) on a powered USB hub with power switches for each port. I discovered that having too many drives connected at once was a problem. 6 seems to be the limit (not counting the M.2 drive). My wife had a stroke 2 years ago and this allows us to watch movies and shows more conveniently. I have also ripped all of my music CD's. I don't share my server outside the house as I believe in making sure artists get royalties for their work. BTW, I keep the backup drives unmounted and the usb ports powered off unless I'm running a backup. I'm also running a NAS using Argon 40's case. I back up the Plex metadata to the NAS using rsync. Just starting to play with a TuringPi2 cluster. Being retired is fun! Thanks for the great video!

[systemmodmen]

Man your Channel is getting better by the day keep up the good work

[AntKardano]

I personally use Cockpit to easily manage my raspberry pi 4 via a simple Web interface. Really comes in handy when i feel like doing updates in the bathroom.

[lazaruspr]

Bro, I hve the same mouse pad, something so simple as a mouse pad made me smile today…..plus love your content.

[AlwaysBolttheBird]

My first Plex server was running on a Pi 3 over Wi-Fi ad it worked great.

[lantrick]

The only problem i had with the Argon case is the fan crapped out and there is no replacement available, even from Argon Forty directly. I had to harvest the original fans micro connection and rewire a similar fan with it.

[Moonwired]

That is a sick af case. Much better the pink one i got.

[yassinenacif]

I had that exact same setup (different services) and I have to say it is not reliable. That ssd to usb was failing for me all the time... and it is frustrating

[rajveersingh]

hey,
I love your content, Its awesome.
Buttering aside, :)
I want to connect to my home network from outside, My ISP doesn't allow port forwarding,
Tried Cloudflare with TCP to make my Proxy server or VPN Server to be accessed from home, That didn;t work
Can you suggest something please?

[klntebjer]

I am new to the game. I have installed docker and portainer and are using pi-hole as of now. How do i use my external harddrive connected to my rpi5 as network storage? So essentially as a NAS. I started using OMV, but people recommended me to use Docker and portainer, as i wanted to used multiple programs on my rpi

[theeternallyvigilant]

I tend not to subscribe to you-tubers with a super limited vocab; welcome to the club :)

[rohit]

So idk if anyone else has come across this issue, but the repo for docker for Ubuntu Groovy (20.10) is actually broken at the moment. I ended up getting stuck on a "docker-ce" has no installation candidate

[hastingb]

I have almost the same setup but I have a 256GB SSD and it's using POE. It's running uptime-kuma and home bridge.

[mooseh]

Can you run all these at the same time without any bottleneck ?