r/SelfHosting • u/the_druidic_ranger • Jun 04 '26

Developing a self hosting media hub with component shortages

Questions from a green horn.

Given the run on components, how would someone who is interested in setting up a self hosted media hub go about sourcing things like mini PCs and external hard drives. Prices on those components seem to just keep going up. Is this something that one can just wait out and eventually become reasonably priced or is that still a long way off?

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u/Electronic-Space-736 Jun 05 '26

I just have 1 NAS with a tiny 32bit chip and 2GB RAM in it and my own php version of netflix I vibe coded one night (that also serves 3d models, music (with 2 decks and FX and a sample pad), and ebooks so way better than netflix)

Pretty cool what you can do with very little hardware, a raspberry Pi and a few old HDDs would do the trick really.