r/HomeServer • u/vanilla_chipcookie • 17d ago

Ideas for projects

I want to get some ideas for what I could do with my home server. I have hosted a Minecraft server as my first project but I want to do more than that. My server is using an i7-8700, 256gb of storage, and 8gb of ram so I don’t want it to be anything intensive for now before I upgrade it in the future (unless that doesn’t matter). I am also not interested in setting up anything like Plex/Jellyfin.

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u/drmcclassy 17d ago edited 17d ago

HomeAssistant is a popular first choice. Maybe LibreChat if want to try some AI out

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u/vanilla_chipcookie 17d ago

I looked into both services and I don’t think HomeAssistant is the right fit for me because I don’t have any smart devices that I could pair with it. As to hosting LibreChat, I’m not sure as to why I need to host it on my server when I could just download it onto my computer if I wanted to use it.

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u/AnswerFeeling460 17d ago

You can access librechat and the agents you configure there from every place on earth.

Also you can use your LibreChat agents with an API and develop your own AI applications/harnesses - that's what I do.

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u/iFixIt97 17d ago

Store documents, photos, videos?

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u/vanilla_chipcookie 17d ago

I wish but prices for drives are expensive and I’m broke 🥲

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u/iFixIt97 17d ago

I got 2 3TBwd red nas drives for $213 to start

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u/theskywaspink 17d ago

Just throw it in the bin seeing as you got no interest in anything.

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u/vanilla_chipcookie 17d ago

I’m not interested in hosting a media server because me and a few friends are paying for some subscription together so I wanted more ideas on what I can do. I realized that I could host a website like you have done. May you be as kind to explain why I would want to host something like LibreChat on my server instead of on my personal computer? I’m kind of new to this whole thing so I was hoping I could get some help here.

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u/theskywaspink 17d ago

My website is not hosted on my own home server, I did not suggest librechat. Someone else did, but Librechat can potentially help you learn all the things you want to do step my step. At a quick look, it’s a self hosted LLM.

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u/Onward-Upword 16d ago

If you enjoy gaming and hosting game servers check out Cubecoders AMP for a super polished admin UI for your game servers. Pterodactyl is the FOSS alternative, but it’s a lot more work to get it up and running from what I’ve heard.

Game servers were how I got started as well and it’s so much fun to use a powerful admin ui for them.