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noob question getting error while setting up radarr and sonarr. in radarr adding download client I selected Deluge. what do I put it in the host and port section ? please help..
@@1121494 why? been a Hetzner customer for more than 4 years now. Never had a single issue with their setup. All IT support tickets I write get answered around 15mins later, or 1 hour at max. Their docs are awesome. Their community forum where they publish articles that go beyond what is written in their docs is also really helpful. Their cloud server offerings are cheap compared to others, 20 TB traffic included. Root/dedicated servers come with unlimited traffic, always. Their dedicated server rescue system is awesome. You can install custom OS images in your dedicated server (without any support from Hetzner if something goes wrong of course). BUT they don't offer IT support in the sense of you don't know how to configure your firewall and need help. They explicitly state that they only provide hardware support (upgrades, replacements, etc) and will kindly forward you to their docs or forums. So, why distrust them?
You could spin up a server when you need it in the cloud. Shut it down after. Very doable to automate using Terraform + Ansible.
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@@martontichi8611 it's probably better to spin it down when it's not used than keep spinning 24h per day for many years. Turning on and off is unhealthy when is to often, but doing it few times per day is not a big deal. There was a serious problem with some hard drives with way to aggressive energy saving configuration, causing faster wear&tear and premature failure, but it's a different story.
As much I understand I don't need a server to be local to me, I like having it and enjoy having a massive collection of Linux iso for my friends and family. My 80 terabytes is 1/3 full (for now)
I want a home server for when I don't have internet connection. Having my media on jellyfin being able to watch it through my lan network on my tv or my phone... is great.
To avoid encoding, you can simply re-encode your videos beforehand and make sure that the resolution height is 480p, 720p, 1080p etc.. Then you have direct stream and your cpu sleeps. I use h/x264 and ACC Audio. Super video Greetings
@@luderx Yes, you save a lot of space, but the compatibility with other devices is small with x265. With h264 8bit aac and as mp4 container the videos run everywhere and there is no frameskip when watching faster.
My setup for years is the cheapest 9€ netcup server in combination with the 1TB hetzner storage box mounted via SMB. Works wonders and will offer more compute than the hetzner VPS for the same price.
I would've rallied appreciated a chart calculating price over time for each storage rier vs owning and running locally you know? Just blasting the monthly price isn't the complete picture and I think it could've helped get a clearer picture of when it's worth it and when it's not. Great video W!
amazing video. I love that, even if someone isn't interested on the cloud hosting portion, this is still a helpful guide on how to secure and setup services on a local machine. thanks!
It's cheaper for me to have my home server than pay for a service. Plus, local network speeds and latency are much appreciated. And, I can pick the host OS, something that is usually quite limited on cloud services
Interesting, but also pretty complicated. With my home lab, consisting of a homebrew router/internet gateway running OpenWRT, an x86 Mini PC as Proxmox host, and a NAS running TrueNAS, I'm way more flexible. The NAS was the most expensive part, about 900 EUR. The rest was fairly cheep. The router I need anyway. Basically the only part I could replace with a cloud based solution is the Mini PC server. I got it for about 240 EUR. Wolfgang's Hetzner setup could run for more than 2 years for this money, yet my Mini PC is way more powerful. I think, such a cloud based solution is more of a gimmick than a serious replacement for a home lab.
The whole reason I run stuff at home is to avoid 'the cloud'. There are some inexpensive low power mini PC's you can get now a days and nvme storage is pretty cheap right now, up front cost is obviously higher but unless you have some really pressing reason for doing something like this online I can't say I really see any need for it when you can just take a mini pc with you. The tutorial still works even if you are doing this with a home server with some modification so still a solid tutorial.
My experience with PAAS cloud is if you do real work with lots of data then it gets expensive - very expensive. It’s also very hard to limit your spend which is scary unless you monitor very closely constantly. As a result I built a home server. I still use cloud but only free tier or subscribe to a set level. If I host on cloud I’ll use a VPS like Vultr or Hetzner or wherever and not an open ended consumption based model. But I don’t store media - I think paying a lot to store media is silly.
No sneaky bandwidth or other charges on a home hosted home lab. The cloud is real good at sneaky charges and it only take a random thing going wrong to get hit. It is a big generous to call this a cloud implementation. This is more like remote hosting with a provider who may or may not also be cloud provider.
For me, yes. The main reason I have a home server (albeit a fairly basic one) is because I like being able to access my data on different devices and even remotely if needed (I have a VPN set up), while also being able to access my data if there's a problem with my Internet connection (provided I'm connected to the LAN ofc). I would rent out a VPS to run Nextcloud as an off-site backup, it would certainly be better than using Google Drive, but I can't justify spending that much on a monthly basis, and I wouldn't want to use it as my primary storage location unless I literally had no other choice. That said, I do rent out a small VPS to run my website.
Offtopic My first time hearing about nixOS was participating in a CTF and being the only one in my team to submit a flag, because the other folks were busy trying to fix their NixOS config.
Gosh this looks terrifying and complicated. I like the idea but I think pre configured seedboxes may be better for some peoples needs? Or of course self-hosting
My answer to your question would be: It depends. What bandwidth do I have? How reliable is my Internet connection? How much storage space do I need? Does it make sense to run this service offsite or would it be better in-house? For some services, it makes sense to run them in the cloud to benefit from the reliability and global accessibility of the server. For other services, it is better to run it on a server in your home.
Might be worth seeing how the Jellyfin player app performs with that setup as well. I'd really love a video setting up Netbird on a VPS with Authentik or Authelia but in a way that lets me use the vps for other docker services like email server, website server, bookmark backup server etc etc..
I am finally down to a couple connections that require a cloud connection and I hope to be eliminating one of the two by year end. Home security is never going to be dependent on the network, although my Home Automation handles it in its own way. Like a duplicate. I set up VPN into my UDM-Pro and last month we went on vacation and we were able to access everything on the home network with no issues. I was watching movies, she was watching movies and I dB's projects, Home Automation, Energy Management... NO issues! no CLOUD!
The most interesting part was the traefik stuff. Will consider that for future topics. Other than that: Plex banned the whole hetzner network for good reasons. People which plan to setup those services to increase and stream their linux iso collection and cat videos should exactly know what they're doing.
Can you make a tutorial as where to start if you want to learn stuff about servers? Like - what should we start we to be able to know this stuff and play with it?
Doing this since 2019. Hosting all my docker apps in the cloud. Plex as well and using real debrid for a 50tb content library (4k). Costs are about 2-4$.
@WolfgangsChannel Love the content please keep doing what you're doing! But I feel you should have made this a playlist. You made a 30 minute video which I am sure took a lot of time and effort. But you've left out a few steps. Also a video on the compose.yml file with labels would have been super helpful. The video only works if we're using your exact stack. You're not explaining how to figure out and create your own docker yml file with labels. What if we want to add or remove containers? How do we figure out the labeling for Traefik? Yes, a bit of Google searching will at some point help you figure it out. But the same can be said about the entire video.
Have you felt like the torrenting performance is affected by the cloud storage significantly? I've been thinking about moving to a similar setup from a dedicated server with local hdds that are running full, but I'm worried it will take ages to make a file available for seeding. Does it work well for the random seeks, reads and writes?
i see a lot of similar comments , but i think you misunderstood how you are beeing tracked , if you look into xyz in google and click related sites , google or affiliates that share/track your data will provide them the information and you will get a "new" recommendation pop up and you are like wow ... how do you know it. ever wondered why some of your subscribed new uploads pop up instantly and some you see only many days later ?
The storage by Hetzner is a real surprise and I might make use of it, with encypted data. About everything else how's Hetzner is respecting users privacy? Do they snoop around like Google does? Because that would be inconvenient at best.
as long as you encrypt your data such that only you can unencrypt it later, all your data is safe no matter what the company tries to do with the file(s)
@@cheebadigga4092 Sure, but it's not ethical supporting businesses that don't respect users privacy. I'm trying to reduce my reliance on services run that way.
@@cheebadigga4092that is kinda impossible to do when the same server that accesses the data also needs to have the encryption key. If the provider extracts it with the data, it's the same as having no encryption
There is no way to make this cheap enough to replace hosting it yourself. I have a 12TB storage on my server with a 35% usage, so already the 1TB solution is not enough. Anything that requries large amount of storage is out. These solutions are useful for other things, but not for this.
Just looked it up and yes, that seems to be the case. But since Plex pretty much requires an account for remote connections, I'd personally recommend Jellyfin anyway
@@WolfgangsChannel I'd wager that Plex might have found good reasons and issues with Hetzner that people in the industry aren't yet willing to openly talk about.
@@1121494The same Plex that did a rug pull on it's customers on more than one occasion? Yeah, I'd really trust anything that company says that's about other industry operators, Plex can't even be honest with it's own customers about what's in their written Contractual Agreements with past Customers. I wouldn't put a bet on that kind of behaviour if it was me.
Hi Wolfgang! Love your videos Do you perhaps have any tips for GPU virtualization? I would like to have two VM's on a desktop that do not run concurrently that both use the same GPU. They are both windows VM and I use proxmox
Germany is strict with copyright things (torrenting), but i think wolfgang forgot Hetzner is german company, and takes this serious. Most of time, they can terminate your service. Hetzner is actually really bad hosting to do these things.
@@WolfgangsChannel yes but end user contract is signed with german's company? I think they don't care about geolocation, in all countries ISP's receive a copyright notices but many countries in EU (not germany) don't care about it. Hetzner uses own IPv4 ranges, so when they receive a mail about copyright, i think they will deal with same in Finland location or Germany. I cannot say it with 100% confidence, i never used Hetzner, and i never read their end user agreement (something you should when i are renting server place), but i've read many stories about seedboxes.
I live in Germany, and I have a pretty good idea about how DMCA trolls operate. They reside in Germany and Austria and monitor swarms of popular torrents for German/Austrian IPs. Then they send an abuse mail to the ISP, ask for the physical address of the customer, and then send a scary letter in legalese. This industry only really exists at that scale in Germany and to some extent Austria, and as long as your torrent IP is not German, they don't bother.
@@WolfgangsChannel I do not doubt here, but i'm saying this is worldwide. I worked as an IP engineer in big ISP in Slovakia. I received many DMCA/copyright mails about "flagged" IPs. Not sure about how in Germany it is, but in Slovakia as long you are not sharing these files it's not defined as crime, but i'm also not lawyer. Germany and Austria are just worst about this. Also i heard in Canada some ISPs interrupt your connection and will display forced warning about piracy.
I believe the main point of a home server is that you control exactly what it is doing; no telemetry, no looking up your files, no bullshit whatsoever. It does exactly what you program it to do. In the cloud you have to take the world of the cloud provider.
0:41 I just bought the same case for my home server, recently (Intertech 2U-2404S). What components are You using for this build? I am especially interested in the PSU here I was checking Your low power/efficient PSU list for some suitable PSUs and realized a column for fan type would be helpful. For some server cases one needs PSUs with a 80mm rear-exhaust fan. Most of the consumer fans use the big 120mm top side fan. Can we add such a column in the future?
@@WolfgangsChannel Another question regarding that case... I just realized, that the cables for the front panel are missing a power switch cable/connector. Is this the same for your case?
Hey Wolfgang can you make a video about Hardware and Software raid? I started working in IT last year and our team leader advised very much against a Software raid even for my home server due to bad experiences he's made in his career with loss of data. I'm very uncertain about what to do now. I'm a little hesitant to spend 100€ just for a raid controller
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Are there any sort of legal implications to hosting in Hetzner for the sweet legal ISOs we want to put in there? Not that Jellyfin can play those but just curious
Hi Wolfgang, I’m following you for quite a while now and because of you, one of the first things I want to do after graduating when I move to a more permanent place is building a homeserver. Must have on it will be jellyfin. As you mention it in every video, I assume you have investigated into codecs etc. as I am starting something from scratch, I think I want to go with av1 encoding. At the moment it maybe requires a bit transcoding but I think in the long run choosing av1 now will be worth it. What are your thoughts about that topic? And what handbrake settings do you use for your Blu-ray’s?
If you want to get started sooner, consider a mini-PC (beelink for example). They're small and easily transportable while also being power efficient. I'd recommend getting one with an Intel CPU with quick sync if you want transcoding support. Just add an SSD drive and you'll be able to fit a decent sized library for 1 person. I also recommend doing this while you're still in school because it'll look good on your resume for your first job. There's also a chance you can document your process for extra credit or as an entire self guided study course (talk to an advisor/dean for specifics for your school).
@@manofwar9307 I am not waiting because I am still in school but because I hope that intel will release new low power cpus in early 2025. the current n series is almost 2 years old and in the past the series was updated every 2 years. I am thinking about the codecs etc. already because then I can start to build up the library already.
I'm working for VAR / IT integrator company, and after my 17 years of experience in that matter i say one thing: no to a cloud. If you are a tech person and your data is precious for you, hold and maintain it yourself. simple AF
Yeah, not suggesting a way to encrypt the content on the storage box will lead to suffering. This video will get people into contact with the police sooner rather than later. Take this video down a remake it with encryption!
I was referring to the fact that even big companies like Microsoft scan your data when its in the cloud and think people are fricking pedos because of a photo that someone took of his son that needed medical attention. Don't need for getting triggered by it it's just fact. I'm not talking about shady stuff bro.. it's just the fact that when stuff are on the cloud you can easily be count as a criminal and stuff like that even when you done nothing wrong
I've seen the video, and it's pretty dystopian. The idea that Amazon will report you to the local police because they found pirated movies on your drive is still insane though
how about letting only the vpn port open on the server? I'm using it for my home stuff so i can set lazy passwords for other services and still be safe.
Creating the new user how to set a specific ssh key added to the server? Like in a current VPS with Coolify I have two ssh keys, I want to disable root user and assign each ssh key to a specific user, how I can do it?
I will stay at Homelab. Dont know why, but i like to know where my files are and who can see them. I'm newly entered the Linux-Distros-hole... any advices, where i find distros with german language pack? not how to configure Arr* gluten etc. just where?
What if want to have small light services ,like a password manager , nextcloud , ... Give me more examples if you have . How to calculate how much specs I need for this kind of stuff if I want to host it as a vps
Let’s wait for that one smart guy, saying „there is no such thing as cloud. The cloud is just someone else’s computer“. And believe me, there is ALWAYS that one guy.
If you know where to get a home server + 1TB of storage for 36€, let me know! Especially if it doesn't result in a 4€/mo increase on your utilities bill
@@WolfgangsChannel well I think the hardware is paid for in a few months and the utility bill is the utility bill. How about I send you a raspberry pi and you send me $35/month ?
Where did €35 a month come from? I thought we were talking about "the cost of 4 months of fees once" (€36), and a Raspberry Pi kit + 1TB of storage would set you back at least 120€.
interesting video but not for me and will probably be never i like the idea to selfhost my "server" (it's not even a server, juste a "powerfull" mini pc), online service cost a lot and specs are not that high...
