Secondary Plex + Docker server

Thom_0203 · November 25, 2020

Hey!

I have been running a 3x 2TB with 250gb cached Unraid server for some time now, and have been taking advantage of father's fiber connection (500mbit up/down). (Unfortunately ;) ) he is moving to a different place which has 22 mbit down and 2 mbit upload... And I dont see myself streaming 4K over to my place while three people are working from that house.

I am therefor looking to provide a solution for myself to keep the redundant server with him, and have an essentials server for myself, but I can decide which OS to use and how I should set it up. I started off by buying a Dell Optiplex 3040 micro with a i3 6100t and 8GB of ram. Ill be throwing a 500GB 2,5" SSD into it and might add a cheap used external 2TB drive to it later (redundancy doesnt matter a lot for this mass storage, I will only have stuff on it thats already on the main one).

So im looking to make sure I have access to the following dockers I have running:

- Bitwarden

- Plex Media server (wouldnt have to be in a docker depending on the OS)

- DelugeVPN

- Unifi controller

- (Maybe) Home Assistant

The ill be copying a part of our plex library to this second system to allow myself to stream at my place, and also others to stream anywhere aswell.

So to get to the point: what solution should I use for the OS? Unraid is a great piece of software but it seems kinda overkill for a system which will have no redundancy (although i might add a m.2 ssd later to provide atleast some redundancy of e.g. my dockers). I was thinking of just running Ubuntu server, set up a Plex server and Docker and be done with it. Does anyone have any other recommendations?

And to show you the board: it has a m.2 slot and a sata connection.

Mophead · November 29, 2020

Debian/Ubuntu is a good shout. Slap in SnapRAID if you want to do unRAID things in the future (disclaimer, I've not used SnapRAID, but it's supposed to be awesome).