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Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)

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190 points psxuaw | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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briandear ◴[31 Mar 25 16:08 UTC] No.43536614[source]▶
Curious what “home servers” are really for. I’ve gone decades without needing a home server — what am I missing out on?
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1. pnutjam ◴[31 Mar 25 16:28 UTC] No.43536854[source]▶
On mine I run calibre, jellyfin, openbooks, and Samba to share files out. All my other computers backup to my home server and it has a process to deal with incremental and offsite (btrfs snapshots and b2).

I also use it from my other computers via ssh to access git, irc, keepass, and whatever else tickles my fancy.