Hello all,
I recently bought an EliteDesk 800 G4 Mini i7-8700T (16GB), and wanted to ask for some advice based on the services I want to run on it.
Just had the following questions:
- Syncthing (to have all my devices / laptops sync their Joplin / Obsidian databases to one place)
- Nextcloud (to replace google drive, etc, and have a private cloud)
- PiHole
- Plex(?) - just light use or to experiment though I think. I don't watch much TV / movies. Optional.
- Private VPN
- Reverse Proxy
- Firewall? (not sure how necessary / complicated this is)
- Hosting own website (might be more of a security risk / hassle than it's worth. Just a potential idea)
- Tandoor (recipe website)
- AI Services
- Running scripts at night, doing website scrape jobs at night, or any type of script jobs I might need done. Maybe pulling data from APIs, to feed into more powerful PC in my room during the day.
More Background:
I recently bought an EliteDesk 800 G4 Mini i7-8700T (16GB), and wanted to ask for some advice based on the services I want to run on it.
Just had the following questions:
- Should I get a 90W or a 150W charger for it? (I don't plan on adding much more stuff to it down the line... but maybe there's something I'm not thinking of).
- Given the following services I want to setup, is there a certain way I should approach it? Or some of them that I should do first? Or any general tips?
- Syncthing (to have all my devices / laptops sync their Joplin / Obsidian databases to one place)
- Nextcloud (to replace google drive, etc, and have a private cloud)
- PiHole
- Plex(?) - just light use or to experiment though I think. I don't watch much TV / movies. Optional.
- Private VPN
- Reverse Proxy
- Firewall? (not sure how necessary / complicated this is)
- Hosting own website (might be more of a security risk / hassle than it's worth. Just a potential idea)
- Tandoor (recipe website)
- AI Services
- Running scripts at night, doing website scrape jobs at night, or any type of script jobs I might need done. Maybe pulling data from APIs, to feed into more powerful PC in my room during the day.
More Background:
- I do plan on building a trueNAS from a old tower case I have, and that one would be the serious trueNAS / backup server / Plex server.
- This mini PC I plan to use more as a service that will always be on 24/7 (mostly as a central hub for Syncthing and Nextcloud, and also to use as a reverse proxy and private VPN).
- My main PC in my room is quite powerful, and I want to use that one for learning LLM's and any heavier jobs / computing.
- I got my Sec+ cert not too long ago and looking to experiment and learn stuff to help land a job in the field (My background is Mechanical Engineering but I'm looking to switch).
