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You're welcome (btw most of these are similar and sometimes included in each other, so it's pretty obvious that it was intended) <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="68">1:08</a> Learning New OS <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="132">2:12</a> Home Automation <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="177">2:57</a> Self-Host Web Server <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="198">3:18</a> Self-Host API <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="222">3:42</a> Home Security <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="266">4:26</a> Home Entertainment <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="294">4:54</a> Network Firewall <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="357">5:57</a> Home Network <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="363">6:03</a> VPN Servers <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="412">6:52</a> Docker <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="443">7:23</a> Database Server <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="478">7:58</a> FIle Server <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="514">8:34</a> Ad Blocking <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="555">9:15</a> Personal Cloud <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="590">9:50</a> FTP server <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="627">10:27</a> Reporting Server <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="663">11:03</a> Torrent Server <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="690">11:30</a> Backup Server <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="743">12:23</a> Game Server <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="817">13:37</a> Crowdsourced Compute

Incredible video. Thank you for the time you put into this. I’ve been looking to get into virtualization for a while now, and this video committed me to learning. Subbed!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="840">14:00</a> I thought at a glance the option to stop folding "Only when idle" as "Only when I die." I thought "Man, these home folders are hardcore!" This is a great list and resinspires me to continue my proxmox setup. Tim, after watching several of your videos I can tell you do this out of passion. Thank you for being a great resource. I don't know what royalty free track is in the background but it's catchy and not annoying like most of them!

Hey Tim thank you for the hard work and your time.

I am a total newbie in homelab and stuffs and your video helped me a lot to visualize a path i can take. Thanks a lot

Thank you Mr. Techno T, this has cleared up my questions for my IT class & virtual machines.. "WE ARE THE DISCLOSURE!"

Dude, thank you. Been hunting for homelab ideas and found your channel. Subbed big time

Im beginning to love this guy more and more... I just subbed to him like a day ago. Everytime i need some answers i come on youtube and search and there he has the video answering my question.

Wow, you are answering all the questions. Good KZfaqr.

Two more suggestions: syslog server. Many systems can generate syslog data, like your router. Having a central log repository lets you monitor, archive, or react to the data. IDS, such as Security Onion. This is similar to syslog, but your IDS can be set up to monitor for intrusions and alert you.

I'm new to the concept and need to learn more about it use and application this was really helpful,thanks a lot!

Watched this on my lunch break; definitely subbed and will be checking out more videos.

I haven't started my own server yet, but this kind of content help me to start dreaming what I want... Thanks!

Amazing video. I really think this can help people to understand the importance of privacy in technology. I think this gives the best options!

Well Done, big-picture w/o deep-driving into anyone category of endless details.

Thanks for all of your videos. I feel like a king. I successfully got passthru to work for both of my graphics cards and now I can do other things what I want. Pretty effing cool I have to say.

Love this! So helpful. Thanks Tim!

Great video! Other fancy things to host would be your own monitoring service, like Nagios, Icinga, ELK stack etc. Also hosting your own GitLab instance is fun :)

Hey man! Your videos are awesome. This is the perfect channel for me and where I am at in my home lab and technical development.

Hello Tim Thankyou for pleasant music... and I can hear you easily! You are awesome!

Excellent list. A software package caching server for Debian, Ubuntu, Steam, Windows Updates, etc. Really helpful for nearly instantaneous updates to multiple machines, which happens when you're virtualizing a lot. Nginx does this really well.

I literally built my home lab so I can help seed debian torrents. Because I'm a good person. Yeppp.

learning a lot from your videos keep making them please :)

Hey Tim, I decided to jump on the rack / home lab train. I have no idea what I'm doing but that's why I started XD. Got my startech 12U 4 post rack last week. Now im waiting for a poweredge r710 and a switch plus god knows what else. The wife ain't to happy. Any who love the video been binge watching them for a while now and the adventure I randomly decided to go on doesn't seem to daunting now.

It useful and Objective Video! Thank you, Tim!

Lots of thanks for your video 20 ways to use a virtual machine.

Great ideas! Thank you!

Great vid! Gave me some good ideas.

Great video - lots of excellent ideas !

It would be amazing if you did a video on deploying ZoneMinder (or another home security software) in a Docker VM - this is a space that is under-covered and could use some of your pedagogic magic ! In the meantime, thanks for all you do, your channel is amazing

Just WOW! I don't leave comments often but this is a great video. Good job.

I love your content! I tried hosting a web server from home a few years ago. I got exhausted after configuring gateway settings and syncing dynamic IP addresses with DNS. I would love to see you setting a home web server with containers on the next video. Cheerio

Cool video. New Sub! VM are something I'm just learning about. Seems pretty nifty.

A lot of great ideas. Thanks

Great video thanks Tim

That's video is very Informative. Because you also suggested many software. Which is best part of video.👍

Awesome bro!!

Awesome video man

I run my own Unraid server. It's absolutely awesome. Unraid manages my NAS requirements with parity protection, docker runs my Plex, Sonarr, Adblock, torrents and more and KVM runs my VM's for home assistant, Ubuntu, throwaway VM's and I run a gaming VM with a GPU passthrough with near bare metal performance. The entire system is absolutely awesome. 👍

lot of points here for further exploration, thanks.

Excellent video :)

Good ideas.

Great video! Do you plan to do a video on your setup and what services you run?

You earned your like/sub. This was a cool video, thanks for your time and effort! :)

Great ideas bud! Just built a virtual pi machine as an airprint server. Couldn’t get the other apps to work on my windows pc.

For backup, I'm using backuppc in VM. Very nice tool, and I run it on a second proxmox node (cluster) with low important VM's on. This way, also a nice hardware split for backup split...

Ok, now I totally understand why your home-server is having 24 CPU Cores. :) Great video btw.!

I used ZoneMinder years ago. Running power to the cameras is what killed the idea. It was a pain to find the correct settings for generic cameras, but worked really well.

I actually used your other video to help set up my PARSEC based VM for remote gaming and content making. That VM is also synced up to a Nextcloud instance on another server. As far as other uses for VMs, I have a DNS server, VPN, and Proxy server for most of the other services I run. The proxy server is awesome so I don't have to keep opening ports on my router for external access. I do use that through SSL as well.

i just stumble upon this video and I think it is really informative. Give me an idea to build my home router /firewall

Another great add-on for home server addition can be 3CX Server for communication within the family or small office.

great video, didnt know we could do so many thing with virtual machine, i only use a virtual machine in my computer because i do some programming (C#,javascript etc) and dont want to install all those thing in my computer (juste use them like 2 day in a week)

very cool video you make !

I'd like more information running obs on a virtual machine. That sounds interesting to me. Lots of possibilities.

¡Gracias!

Hi! I like your content, keep up the good work. I will wait for a video about installing and configuring all of the above. Thank you!

Just found your video and I am very happy that I stopped and watched. At 2 am it’s probably not a good idea to ask questions and boy to I have questions. Your top 10 list had me drooling like a kid at a candy store. Anyway I save and down loaded your video and tomorrow I will do a deep dive into your channel and learn all I can, then I will put a list together. Until then thanks for sharing.

you are awesome ❤️

That was amazing, I want to setup a home lab and you give me so many ideas. Thank You!

can you make a video on how your vm for blue iris is configured (how many cores and ram you give it). I want to do this but heard that blur iris should be on a stand alone pc not in a vm. I want to build a dedicated vm computer but dont know how many cores will need and how many i should give each vm for them to work without performance problems.

Thanks Tim! Great Ideas!

PFsense on a dedicated box (for it's firewall and network management), and Unraid on a dedicated box (for it's NAS, Docker, And VMs) is the way to go! Best of all world's.

Thank you so much for this video, you have a great way of explaining things! You mentioned virtualizing Freenas and also NextCloud. Does this mean you are using virtual hard disks to build storage ?

Great video, one service I just discovered is LinuxGSM for self hosting game server

hey there Tim, any tips for a home server that is able to provide on the fly VDI's ? Or deploy AD forest for Red Team exercises? I love the ability to be able to spin on a virtual machine somewhere, save important data to a persistent storage and destroy the VM.

I got a lot to learn

Hello, great content! This video was very informative. I have a question in regards to creating a virtual machine. I am not really sure about the correct terminology. But, it fits somewhere between a VM & VPS. Is there a way to create a virtual computer that only exists in the cloud? To be more specific, I trying to keep a computer access point localised whilst accessing that virtual computer anywhere in the world.

Hi Wow great Video! Thanks! I need help I want to build 2 servers...one for freenas and the other for virtualization. I'm thinking Supermicro for motherboard but not sure which ones for each also which CPU for each. Thanks for your help.

Thanks a ton for the great content. I have found your videos quite helpful as I find my way around this “new world” of self-hosting / home lab setup. In a Proxmox + TrueNAS or OMV setup, what is best approach for ZFS Storage Pool. Is it best to setup the zpool in Proxmox for use by the NAS software or is it better to setup the zpool from within the NAS software?

A lot of things on this list you can run inside of docker containers.. for example I run a old repurposed i5 3470 machine using OMV, but I have dockers that run a local minecraft server, jellyfin, and a few other things and my weak system isn't stressed out by it. I have been kicking around the idea of setting up a server to run a few virtual machines from, for example replacing my current w10 torrent box with a virtual one that saves straight to my nas instead of on a local HDD, which I then have to transfer over lan to nas storage. but on the flip side I can just run utorrent or transmission in a docker container and have a browser/ip based front end for it.. one of those projects I haven't gotten around to yet. Docker really is a great thing. maybe you could do a deep dive video into docker like this one for people who are unfamiliar with it. Great vid tho, I appreciate it :)

the Steven Seagal of KZfaq: 1 facial expression for every emotion :D (just kidding, I love your videos)

Tim your videos are the best! Keep doing videos. Some recommendations : FREE OPTIONS YOU KNOW ARE OUR FAVORITE TRUST ME PAID OPTIONS ARE GREAT IF YOU CAN AFFORD THEM, EDGE ROUTERS , KVM, SPACEWALK (OR ALTERNATIVE)

Other suggested apps? A huge one that is evolving, is managing the modern home electrical ecosystem. With; variable grid prices & solar panels & EV charging / home batteries etc., we are faced w/ many of the same complex problems once the preserve of the grid operators

You covered the apps side very well ... BUT.... how much hardware is needed to put all these apps into active status?? Any thoughts... a close guess??

Hi Tim, I'm drafting my plans for HomeLab, (re)doing network cabling, etc. What are your suggestions on the self hosted Smart Home software and hardware?

I really enjoyed the video, any chance of below: Virtualization vs containers e.g. docker, kubernetes, openshift? my question would be, are containers replacing hyper-v/vmware, where do containers fit into infrastructure, and the uses they bring. If containers are running side by side on vitualization server e.g. vmware or hyper-v what are the benefits, if any?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="669">11:09</a> You even laughed yourself when you talk about "legal reasons" for torrenting 🤣🤣🤣

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="10">0:10</a> - Don't forget Windows10 and 11 Both run Hyper-V witch comes preinstalled by default. Although you will have to enable it through "Programs and Features" This is by far the best option for anyone wanting to actually implement this knowledge into the industry.

Bonjour, est-ce qu'on peut créer une visualisation pour installer Windows, comme pour VirtualBox par exemple, dans TrueNAS par exemple.

Hi! Is it possible to stream to twitch on one lesser of in a different room and remote connect to the virtual machine to play the game?

Woah Johnny Depp does tech videos too..wild.

What are the specs of your server? Im curious about the amount of memory and cores need to run all the services you mentioned.

cool content :3

Great succinct video and great list of useful services, but why is it advisable/beneficial for these particular services to run in virtual machines VS them just running as services on the main OS of an always on PC? Thanks!

Appreciate

I'm having a lot of those services home like 10 and more. And with docker containers it's growing by the day.

with regards to pf sense, what would be the benefit of using this instead of the typical home router? in my case I use a Netgear R7000. or do they compliment each other?

What song are you playing in the back ground?

It could be wrong, it could be right, but I use mainly two VMs. One for "AdGuard Home" (migrated from pi-hole) as snap on ubuntu, another VM as nextcloud snap + openvpn server. I tried the latter two with docker on host itself, made a mess. Snap packages could be a bit resource hogging, but at least for my purposes, they work as charm, never ever had problems. Another idea for VM could be to create one exclusively for your family to be used on local network, if their PC is crappy. RDP/VNC to the VM from their PC could be game changer. Tried it, results are good. Mother is happy she can now use full MS Office on her Mac with win10 VM machine I created exclusively for her. No longer questions like "Can I use your PC to use Word/Excel".

I just love your shit dude.

Yes, definitely go over docker, rancher or at least what your setup looks like :)

I've been virtualising for years. I setup network storage pools on my nas and run the vm's off there. Mostly for coding and hosting efforts. I'm not going to pay a 3rd party x dollars a month for something which is trivial to setup and run myself. Plus, I get to mess around as much as I like without quickly reaching limits set by 3rd parties that might otherwise incur additional charges on top of your monthly. Alternatives to VPN and Cloud for me are ssh tunnels and scp. Plus monetising any of it is really easy. So I do.

I've been reading up ALOT about VPNs, i know what it is but there are still some concepts i have yet to grasp. And most the blogs i read never actually touch on the specific questions i searched. When you mentioned tunneling back home to tunnel out, is this similar to using your home server as an ExpressVPN node? Also, could it be used to replace my ExpressVPN all together? or is it practical toconnect to "OpenVPN" with ExpressVPN? Im new to the networking.

For true opensource, I wouldnt use Emby. They had some static binaries that some users didnt like, so they forked it to Jellyfin. Jellyfin has worked great for me, and better with 4K streaming.

what about an ESXi server with a PXE server to publish bootable vms to thin clients, and how would someone do it?

VM's - they also help with malware analysis - like if you got a dangerous program and you want to run it in an isolated environment.

Docker video would be useful!

Is there a solution to filter incoming email (using external email not internal email server) for spam?

Do anyone know how to install ProctorU VM with out being detectable?