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What are benefits of servers?

WindirBear
By WindirBear
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This isn't my area of knowledge at all, so I'm wondering what are the benefits of personal servers.

 

Mainly, what are some fun and interesting projects that can be done with one?

 

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I own a low-end one. It's a fileserver, storing backups of my machine's primary drive (120GB) and my parent's primary drives (128GB/250GB SSDs). Also runs Plex for Netflix-like movie and TV show cataloging and Transmission for torrent downloads. Back when Pokemon Go was in it's popular stage, I had a map and bots running on it. I also use it for Steam game trading card idling. 

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personal cloud so you can control your files or keep them off the internet but effortlessly sync between devices

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Network based storage so that you can access the same files from any networked device in the house. 

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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21 hours ago, Droidbot said:

I own a low-end one. It's a fileserver, storing backups of my machine's primary drive (120GB) and my parent's primary drives (128GB/250GB SSDs). Also runs Plex for Netflix-like movie and TV show cataloging and Transmission for torrent downloads. Back when Pokemon Go was in it's popular stage, I had a map and bots running on it. I also use it for Steam game trading card idling. 

What os are you using?

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7 minutes ago, Purpledrank562 said:

What os are you using?

OpenMediaVault, debian with a web interface

previously Win7 Pro

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