Hey everyone. So I just inherited a Dell R720 from work. I don’t know the full specs on it yet, but it’s got a 24 core processor and about 380 GB of memory. I need to buy my own drives, though. I honestly have no idea what to do with this. I’ve dreamed of having a home lab, but only ever thought about hosting a Unifi controller and a plex or jellyfin server. I’ll probably put Proxmox on it to manage everything. What recommendations do you all have for making use of this server? I’m honestly open to anything!
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I’m extremely curious what you have done with it for the last 3 years. I see two possibilities: 1. you gave it away for pennies as soon as you turned it on and heard its whoooosh. 2. I’ll get 32 A4 pages worth of text about VM-s, VLAN-s, reverse proxies, internal CA-s services etc. … And I’m looking forward to a lot of reading tonight. :)
sorry to disappoint! There was someone else at work who wanted the server at the time. When I couldn’t come up with any solid use cases to justify the power draw, I let them have it.
Hey @[email protected] what did you end up doing with the server? From where yo uar enow, we could provide some other ideas/directions to head.
That’s a beast of a server with way more resources than you need for just Plex and Unifi lol - with that much RAM you could run a whole suite of self-hosted services like Nextcloud for files, Vaultwarden for passwords, Home Assistant for smart home stuff, and maybe even spin up a few game servers for freinds.
