Home Servers & NAS

Personal servers, NAS appliances, and self‑hosted media/storage platforms for the home.

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NAS Appliances 2–8 bay units, CPU/RAM choices, apps, drive bays, and expansion strategies. Home Server Hardware Small form‑factor builds, ECC memory considerations, and quiet cooling for 24/7 uptime. Self‑Hosted Platforms App catalogs, reverse proxies, SSL, DNS, and best practices for self‑hosting at home. Plex Media Server Transcoding, hardware acceleration, libraries, remote access, and user management for Plex. Jellyfin Open‑source media server setup, hardware decoding, plugins, and client apps for Jellyfin. Unraid Parity array basics, cache pools, Docker/VMs on Unraid, and share performance tuning. TrueNAS (CORE/Scale) ZFS‑based NAS with datasets, snapshots/replication, apps, and permissions in TrueNAS. ZFS (Storage Pools) vdevs, ARC/L2ARC, scrubs, snapshots, and resiliency trade‑offs with ZFS pools. RAID Levels RAID 0/1/5/6/10, parity overhead, drive mixing, and controller/HBA considerations. Docker Containers Compose stacks, volumes, networking, and container lifecycle for self‑hosted apps. Kubernetes (Homelab) K8s basics, helm charts, storage classes, and small‑cluster ops for homelabs. Backup & Snapshots 3‑2‑1 strategies, offsite replication, snapshot schedules, and disaster recovery drills.

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