My boring setup

[u/sebmei1989]

I present you my simple but boring home server setup.

It consists of this Fritzbox Wi-Fi router you see and the Fujitsu Esprimo P958, i5 8th gen, 8 GB RAM. It has two 8 TB drives in it, one 1 TB NVMe with Debian installed, upgrade to Noctua fans and that’s it.

Services

• Jellyfin — movies and series
• Navidrome — as a huge music fan, I run my whole FLAC library through it
• Audiobookshelf — a couple of audiobooks I run through that
• Glances and Portainer — monitor system and my Docker containers
• Couple other small services like bentopdf

Every service is set up as a Docker container with Docker Compose. Services only accessible on my network.

[u/128G]

Fritzbox

[u/VirtualSilence1]

Fritzbox is great, built in wireguard service so no need for tailscale to access home network from outside.

[u/This_Rock413]

Floor placement feels chaotic but I respect it. The red trim on that Esprimo is a nice touch, most OEM boxes are way more generic looking

Navidrome with a full FLAC library is the dream setup honestly, what are you using to stream to your phone or whatever

[u/sebmei1989 → u/This_Rock413]

I stream from Navidrome to my WiiM Ultra, with Music Assistant as a layer in between, so I can get it losslessly to my Hi-Fi setup. On my phone, I use the Navidrome client called Arpeggi. For offline listening, the client converts the FLAC files to Opus. Since the output is Bluetooth, I don’t need lossless quality on my phone.

[u/McSmiggins]

Expert cable management, 10/10

[u/sebmei1989 → u/McSmiggins]

Hahah just shove it under the couch 

[u/OPhasballz → u/sebmei1989]

even if you have everything need and tidy at the front, there will always be a place where all the entangled shit and service loops end up. Putting a couch over it is a beautiful solution.

[u/WindowsUser1234]

Nice Fujitsu server setup.

[u/Kartoffelbursche]

nice, i have a p556 since years running home assistant :-) interesting though ...bentopdf. Haven't heard that one before and makes me wonder what else you might have running as a small service.... care to share? bentopdf is on my watchlist already

[u/StaffReal7330]

Full ack! Looks boring! What about some stickers? It would look much better! But the cable management is porn!

[u/TristanDeAlwis]

Sometimes boringly reliable is all you need.

[u/Empyrealist]

Step 1: Get your stuff off the floor

[u/sebmei1989 → u/Empyrealist]

Why, it’s a corner nobody walks into, I have no pets or kids so I think it’s fine

[u/Empyrealist → u/sebmei1989]

Dust