Turn Your Old PC Into a Home Server FOR FREE! - Jellyfin, PLEX, Home Assistant, Pi-hole and more!

Get your old PC out of the shed and turn it into your very own home server!
In this video I'll show you how to turn your old PC, Laptop or some old hardware you have laying around, into a useful home server that can become your NAS or run services like Twingate, Motioneye, Plex, Jellyfin and others...

*static_ip.yaml down below*

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Links

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Ubuntu Download: https://ubuntu.com/download/server
Belina Etcher: https://etcher.balena.io/
Putty: https://www.putty.org/
WinSCP: https://winscp.net/eng/download.php

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Chapters
Intro: 00:00
What can it be used for: 00:14
What you'll need: 01:04
Getting the hardware ready: 01:37
Creating a bootable USB drive: 03:21
Installing Ubuntu Server: 04:33
Setting up the server: 07:34
Quick tips: 12:06
The end: 13:34

Static IP config yaml file

network:
version: 2
renderer: networkd
ethernets:
enpXXX:
addresses:
192.168.0.XX/24
gateway4: 192.168.0.1
nameservers:
addresses: [1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1]

you have to change the interface name and the IP address #

The hardware I used for my server

MBO: Gigabyte GA-G41MT-S2PT
CPU: Intel Xeon E5430
RAM: 2x Lenovo 4GB DDR2
GPU: Nvidia GT220
SSD: Crucial 512GB SATA

#ubuntu #server #linux

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