5 reasons EVERYONE needs a home server

Why the hell does anyone need a

home

server

? A question I get asked a lot more than you might think and in this video we're going to explore that, whether you're someone just looking into this or you're an IT professional. There are

reasons

for

everyone

to run a

server

at

home

, whether it's just for fun or breaking the chains of corporate services collecting your data, and no, I'm not saying

everyone

needs

a rack-mount system complete with server switches. and other iot devices, this can be as simple as a Tubay Nas or Raspberry Pi or even a small budget Mini PC.

My first home server was just a small Intel vendor on a Jelly fin PC and that's it no matter what. The hardware or even software running our sponsored Twi gateway will give you an easy way to connect, control and manage almost everything on your home network without needing to use a traditional VPN. Unlike a traditional VPN gateway, there is no Internet exposure when spitting out a connector. on your network can be done with a few simple commands or even install it on your desktop computer and then you can use its client software on most devices and connect to your file system services and even directly to your local IP addresses in the terminal once.

This is all set up, it only requires a simple login to connect, and you can even set up two-factor authentication or link to an authenticator app for added security. All user data streams are encrypted and you can consult the Trust Center documentation for more information. You can add multiple user groups and control access to devices and services based on specific permissions you set, and best of all, it's completely free for up to five users, so be sure to head below and check out the link to get started. Twin Gate number one, backups and local file shares now, before we get into this, just to be clear.

I'm not saying that you should necessarily get rid of cloud services entirely personally. I still use Google Drive as a backup platform. I have a business account connected. on my Gmail, I have two terabs of its data storage in Drive and I use it to backup business documents, uh, video production projects, share them with multiple people, and as a backup mechanism for my personal photos within that business account, but rely solely on these cloud services. you run a risk as that risk is completely trusting any company with all your data, something that could affect your data could be something as simple as a policy change, maybe there is a file on your drive and Google notices which I don't like very much and that happened to me once with a phone update tool and all that can result in the loss of critical data and that's why I have everything on something like this, a Nas, a storage device connected to network and use the drive as a simple offsite backup solution for the really important stuff, having both local and cloud options gives me peace of mind if one of them goes down I still have access to those important files and then There is the cost savings aspect.

You can pay $10 a month for some subscription to a cloud service or you can pay $80 one time for a 4TB hard drive and after you get a Nas, you take into account the cost of power, it pays for itself by about a couple of years and then you're left with the annoyance that for some reason you can't access the Internet and then if you have a local copy of everything that doesn't matter anymore, plus with something like this it gives you the option of having a variety of shared resources network and that makes it really nice to access the same type of file structure on a variety of different devices, for example I have a MacBook Air and it has 256 GB of storage and as we all know the cost of upgrading the storage or RAM on Mac devices is incredibly expensive and for me personally the smaller storage size on the devices is not a big deal as when I work on video production projects or download something that is actually over a gigabyte it doesn't matter.

I store none of the files. on that specific device locally, I simply set up a Direct project within a network share or set my download directory to a network share and with my Wi-Fi speeds or better yet, if I'm working on the device as a direct connection to the Internet. I don't notice any performance difference compared to if the file was actually on drive number two of the device and that's streaming media and this is probably what I would consider to be what I use the most and when I mean streaming media I'm talking from self-hosted movies TV shows e-books stuff like that Now, if you're someone who rarely likes to Chromecast anything on a TV and personally that works great for you, this probably isn't a feature you're necessarily interested in, but if You are someone who wants to have your own Netflix, you can have all your friends and family log in or just have a native app on various platforms in your home to have instant access to all your media, this could be something amazing for you, there is a variety of apps that will allow you to achieve this, there's Plex MB jelly, those are the big three and they all essentially do the same thing and if you want, As a sort of summary of some of the differences, I'll link to a video below in the I cover that and talk about what I'm currently using, but they're all great just for organizing streaming media, most of them have apps everywhere.

They all work very well beyond this, there are tools for specific types of media, such as e-book libraries, audiobooks, podcasts and much more, and in addition to these, you can use some media acquisition and organization tools that really bring everything to the fore. next level. I'm not really going to talk too much about it, but I did make a video walking through all of my types of home lab services. You can check it out or just do some research on the r toolset among all of them, although it is one of my personal favorites. It's something called a supervisor, this gives you a beautiful user interface to help you discover new things you can watch all different things like TV shows for example from all the different streaming services and you can sort them based on what's popular overall , it just does it. really easy for Content Discovery is a beautiful tool three DNS and VPN services starting with DNS and this just means domain name server the best way to think of DNS is like a phone book that actually links the domain name to the IP address you a website is running late and you probably even changed the DNS in your computer settings at some point, you may be familiar with 1.1.1, which is Cloudflare's DNS, or even 8.8.8.8, which is the server Google DNS, and those are probably the two most popular DNS providers and a very popular service that you can run locally is called pyhole.

This is a DNS synthesizer that enables DNS filtering with a primary focus on filtering out domains associated with ads across your network. It's very personalized. There really is a lot you can do with it for web filtering, monitoring a lot of things and this is just one of the examples. There are other services and use cases for hosting your own DNS server, now VPN, and this works a little differently than something you might be used to, like a private internet access or nordvpn, this will run on your hardware passing through of your home network as a VPN server, so, for example, on a commercial service, you log in to your sticky, select a server somewhere else, whether that be a major metropolitan area or even some other country if that's what that you need and then you're basically searching the web from that specific location and this is beneficial of course for accessing things like geo-restricted websites and hiding your IP address when you're downloading Linux isos for example a self-hosted VPN It works pretty similarly, except that if you're somewhere else in the world and connect to your VPN, routing it through your home network also gives you some of the same benefits as a commercial VPN.

VPN, like having an encrypted tunnel from anywhere in the world to that home network, which is really nice for connecting to a public Wi-Fi network or something like that and then of course you can access all these Services, the files and files. share on your network just like you would if you were home again, let our sponsor know, twin gate link below, there are a ton of different options for setting up a VPN, whether it's specifically VPN, the zero trust network, lots of things different. Next, we will talk about learning and lab at home. Running a home server gives you the opportunity to create a laboratory environment commonly known as a home lab.

Having access to an environment like this gives you instant access to learn and experiment, for example. You might have a small server like this running somewhere, maybe you have virtualization software like Proxmox running on it, you might have a container for something like Pie Hole and Lex and then maybe you also have a virtual machine of Linux desktop running on it. then you see some interesting project or something on GitHub and you want to go ahead and try it, since you have the infrastructure ready to go. It's incredibly easy to create new virtual machines or isolated containers with just a few clicks in that specific software. and many other software options too, so you create the new container or virtual machine to test the service, you play with it, maybe it's not for you, with a couple of clicks you delete it and it's like something that I'm never happened doing.

Right now, for example, I'm learning how to set up basic networking with some Omada TPL link equipment that I got and since I already have that whole environment set up, I was able to isolate the new network from my existing networking equipment which is most of the devices on the client side. I am already connected via Wi-Fi or any means to avoid the question of what happened to the Internet and once I feel safe and get all the IP reservations and all the configuration, I will be able to switch to the new network and from one side customer, no one should really notice number five on your Internet network list.

I'm not trying to sound like a Doomer here, but one of the key

reasons

I have the setup I have is because if something were to happen to the Internet, my access to it or the data on it. I have my own Internet at home, that That's what I'll tell my kids anyway. I have enough services and data that I can actually do a lot without needing that external internet connection. Did you know the entire Wikipedia with The images weigh only 109 GB every few months. A snapshot is available for download and can be easily viewed and navigated with a Zim viewer or server.

Many TED talks are open source. Most wikis, including technical Linux wikis like Arch Wiki U Askubuntu. They are open source and can be easily downloaded. I can have a Minecraft server running in the background to use later with all the other services I've talked about in this video. I mean, we're ready and of course there are many, many others. services and categories of tools that you should probably have running locally, whether that's your security system, you really want to rely on a cloud company and have your live streams streaming to them all the time, probably not, your home of Google will really be there. for you when things don't work well, no matter what your use cases are or what you need, you should probably at least get something like a small mini PC, offer a service or two, just play, have fun, learn and eventually you'll be able to know a nerd like me, whose mops get hot on Hub and looking for more things to play with, ads and talk here, I'll talk about talking here.

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