Guide to Building Your Own Home Server

About This guide contains various pieces ofinformation about building your own home server. I arrived at these solutions mostly by poking around here and there, and I tried to include links to external resources if you want to learn more about any particular aspect. In particular, this guide details how to: achieve a satisfactory hardware solution for a home server set up a storage array with redundancy set up a Samba server accessible on the local network to store your data synchronize your data between this storage array and an off-site “cold storage” access your server via SSH set up a VPN to access this server from outside install a Jellyfin media server on this server serve this Jellyfin server on the web via a Cloudflare tunnel Note: This guide assumes you have a basic knowledge of the Linux command line. If not, you can find plenty of resources online, starting with this one. Also, most links are archived when relevant, see this page for more details. ...

Jellyfin Media Server

In short TL;DR: Please DO NOT play movies in streaming mode. Download them locally before watching. The web interface and my collections I host a Jellyfin media server at the following address: https://jellyfin.edervieux.fr/ If you are among the lucky chosen ones, I must have given you a username and password to log in. The interface is very similar to Netflix / Amazon Video / Disney+, and other streaming giants. I have organized my media library into five categories: ...