Homeserver VS filemanager

Most ATX cases support M-ATX mobo's too! So if you don't care about it being a midi tower thats your cheapest option. Just pick one that has enough drive bays, I always go with Fractal Design. If you want to go smaller you'll have to start looking for more niche cases/manufacturers. I suggest planning your other hardware first, then finding a case that fits it. Btw, I'm also interested in low power consumption. If you haven't seen this yet, it's great. It's essentially a TLDR from a german/dutch forum dedicated to low power machines. I'm going with the Fujitsu 3643-B, as that has 6 sata, 2 x16 PCIE 3.0 slots, and supports ECC memory. If you don't care about ECC and only need 4 sata ports, the Fujitsu D3643-H is the way to go. Both these boards can run full systems at 5W idle, which is insane. Good luck!

I have been tinkering in home servers and found this guide to be especially helpful. The guide has everything run on Manjaro through a lengthy docker-compose file.

Hi All! Thanks alot for your valuable inputs. based on your comments, and suggestions - and after some research - i think i have settled on the following "path". First of all - i can see that a SoC system might not be the smartest option - there the size and the fact that they are not very flexible - makes me think that this might not be the smartest way to go. so i found this site: https://github.com/zilexa/Homeserver/blob/master/Recommendations.md And it looks like there has been alot of research that i can reuse. now - in the link - a suggestion is made to buy the asRock desk mini 310, but - when i search - the processors for the LGA115x socket -is not that cheap / available in denmark - so i found this https://www.asrock.com/nettop/Intel/DeskMini%20H470%20Series/index.asp the Desk Mini H470 - sold as a barebone. it doesnt have ECC, but this is not a big concern for me. then i will add some RAM and based on the suggestions - i think 16GB will be the sweetspot have not yet decided what i will choose here. i guess a 1x16 will be smartest - so that i can add another 16 later on. for the OS + and main files ( personal files, as well as my music collection ) i will add the 2TB nvme from Samsung the PM9A1. next - i have decided to "scrap" my 8tb disk - and then go with a 2.5" 4tb - the Samsung Samsung QVO 870. this will host all my movies / tv series etc. no backup is needed here. i did a quick online cart - and theese are the prices - ( in danish ): Barebone Asrock: 1558,- Samsung PM9A1 M.2 2000 GB PCI Express 4.0 TLC NVMe : 1597,- Samsung MZ-77Q4T0BW 870 QVO SSD, 4000 GB, 2.5": 2590 SORAM GSkill D4 2400 8GB C16 Rip (F4-2400C16S-8GRS): 169 all in all :5.929 which is approx: 796,89 Euro. Any thought on this? alternative ways i should look?

Check out https://github.com/zilexa/Homeserver

These scripts are totally inspired from zilexa/Homeserver.

This is the docker-compose.yml

Checkout https://awesome-selfhosted.net/tags/file-transfer---web-base...

I've used https://filebrowser.org/ and it's okay. I've also Seafile, but my current setup is sftp clients (Transmit nowadays) and Syncthing if I need the files on multiple computers.

File Browser

Thanks for sharing. I wasn't aware of dufs and it looks very solid. Fileserver[0] is another popular choice, though it's more GUI-oriented for file operations.

[0]: https://filebrowser.org/

The OnlyOfffice desktop app is a pretty good and free alternative to Microsoft Office Suite. You can simply install it on your local machine for offline access.

OnlyOfffice is also self-hostable as a web app for a cloud alternative to Google Sheets.

Filebrowser is a self-hostable alternative to Google Drive.

There's a pull request open to integrate OnlyOffice with Filebrowser for self-hosted google-drive + google docs.

https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/pull/1420

For strictly local use, Google's Nearby share is technically FOSS but the documentation is basically non-existent and a proper Linux implementation is not here yet. Alternatives aren't hard to find though, with Mint's Warpinator or KDE Connect having worked well for me.

For non-local use (everything out of Bluetooth range), you almost have to trust a third party and it really depends on your use case. Want to send your friend a file or host pictures of your birthday for multiple people to download? For the former magic wormhole works great, for the later you could almost spin up a nextcloud or similar (personally I like https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser ). Want to regularly send files from device 1 to device 2? Now classic sync solutions like syncthing become really viable.

If everything else fails, FTP always has your back

I have been looking for a file browser which can run in game mode and is reasonably user friendly for simple file operations (copy/delete/rename, etc). Most people recommend Dolphin. it does work but there are issues: the color scheme looks really weird in game mode. context menu does not like game mode, either. Got file browser working (https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser) in game mode, which essentially an Edge app accessing a web server on localhost (running as user service). It took some time to set up but the end result is exactly what I would like to have.

File Browser - For access to the files on my NAS

filebrowser has user management plus sharing capabilities

Filebrowser suppports multiple shares with different expiration dates. It also offers file previews and generates QR Codes for the shares.

NextCloud is great for this, but if we're talking sharing files from your sync'd project collection, I'd probably instead recommend Filebrowser. You can point it to the same data store that syncthing is using and it'll make it easy to share the projects. Note that in order to do this you'll need to open up and expose filebrowser publicly. The simplest way to do this would probably be a cloudflare tunnel and for sharing files like this ad-hoc I don't see any issues with their TOS. For things like SyncThing though you'll still wanna do conventional port forwarding. the DIY approach instead of CloudFlare tunnel would be to port forward, set up a dynamic dns record, and set up letsencrypt certs