I have a gaming PC that’s been sitting around and have been thinking about finding ways to use it.
Specs:
- CPU: i9 9900K
- RAM: 64 GB DDR4
- GPU: RX6700
My “homelab” - if you can even call it that - is pretty basic. I have:
- RPi 4 running Pi-Hole and TeslaMate
- Synology DS218 to backup phones and pcs
Should I repurpose my old gaming PC to a Proxmox machine and run everything off that 1 machine?
What else can/should I consider hosting?
Me with my dying 1050ti and i5 6400 looking at this post: meme
Setup an XNS relayer.
Maybe a Jellyfin media server? GPU would help with hardware acceleration for transcoding.
Llama2 for self hosted text-to-speech, speech-to-text, Immich’s AI-powered photo recognition. Hardware transcoding for Jellyfin. These are two things that need a good GPU and might be cool in a self hosted environment imho
Give it to me.
Well… Thats a beast.
Proxmox. Run multiple VMs. 2 VMs for ubuntu server, run all your containers through that, perhaps kubernetes? This way if your containers go down, they just switch over. Super nice.
Than with all the extra resources… I mean, home lab for fun. Spin up windows server. Diff Linux distro. Learn arch, etc.
+1 for proxmox. He can also run a Hackintosh VM reliably since he got an AMD GPU.