First, a hardware question. I’m looking for a computer to use as a… router? Louis calls it a router but it’s a computer that is upstream of my whole network and has two ethernet ports. And suggestions on this? Ideal amount or RAM? Ideal processor/speed? I have fiber internet, 10 gbps up and 10 gbps down, so I’m willing to spend a little more on higher bandwidth components. I’m assuming I won’t need a GPU.

Anyways, has anyone had a chance to look at his guide? It’s accompanied by two youtube videos that are about 7 hours each.

I don’t expect to do everything in his guide. I’d like to be able to VPN into my home network and SSH into some of my projects, use Immich, check out Plex or similar, and set up a NAS. Maybe other stuff after that but those are my main interests.

Any advice/links for a beginner are more than welcome.

Edit: thanks for all the info, lots of good stuff here. OpenWRT seems to be the most frequently recommended thing here so I’m looking into that now. Unfortunately my current router/AP (Asus AX6600) is not supported. I was hoping to not have to replace it, it was kinda pricey, I got it when I upgraded to fiber since it can do 6.6gbps. I’m currently looking into devices I can put upstream of my current hardware but I might have to bite the bullet and replace it.

Edit 2: This is looking pretty good right now.

  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Yeah is guide is pretty useful! i went with setting up wireguard instead of openvpn. For a while now ive been self hosting alot of my stuff, SearXNG with gluetun tunneling, minecraft server for me and the boys and a Samba Share instead of paying for some dopey cloud storage. Ive gotten ZFS running in a 1tb z1 pool for my containers and plan to add a 10tb Z2 pool for long term storage and backups. i chose to do it in NixOS instead of debian or ubuntu, just because im a little bit of a nut for immutability.

    its actually kinda funny i just left a post asking for help setting up wiregaurd server on c/selfhosted and referenced louis’s guide! Also i gotta add thats EPIC you got 10gbps internet, i went with a glinet flint 2 for my router. Because it runs openwrt under the hood, i personally like openwrt alot. there are people that swear by pfsense or opensense because of the bsd network stack, is very well maintained and secure as alot of commercial products like switches and firewalls run pfsense under the hood. for security and vlans pfsense would probably be better from what i heard. But openwrt works pretty well aswell, and i ended up just going with the flint 2 because it has 2.5gb wan in and 1 2.5gb lan. which was more than enough more my measly 1-2gb internet.