Plex home server
A home server built for Plex streaming, file storage and backups — balanced for media, price and expandability.
Recommended builds
Browse curated hardware decisions by scenario and region: the recommended build, why it wins, the alternatives and the upgrade path. Know your own goal instead? The Planner decides in a short chat; Describe builds the full architecture from your life story.
Low-power homelab
An energy-efficient always-on homelab for containers, Home Assistant and backups that won't spike your power bill.
Quiet NAS
A near-silent NAS for file and photo storage — acoustics first, without sacrificing capacity or speed.
NAS for 40 TB
A long-term NAS with 40 TB usable capacity, parity redundancy and room to grow.
Server for 10 virtual machines
A balanced virtualization server that comfortably runs 10 VMs, containers and test environments.
AI homelab under 2000
A performance-focused build for local LLM inference, image generation and AI experimentation.
Homelab for beginners
The simplest good starting homelab — Docker, file storage and self-hosted docs, at a friendly price.
Home Assistant hub
An efficient, silent hub for Home Assistant, automations and IoT — built to run 24/7.
NVR camera server
An always-on NVR for IP camera recording and object detection with long retention.
Jellyfin media server
A home server for Jellyfin with hardware transcoding and media storage.
Docker services server
A home server for Docker services, containers and databases with sensible headroom.
Used hardware homelab
The smartest homelab you can build from used hardware — maximum value per euro.
Energy-efficient 24/7 server
An always-on server tuned for minimum power draw while running Docker and smart-home services.
Silent Plex transcoding server
A silent build that can transcode multiple 4K Plex streams in real time.
Family cloud & photo backup
A family server for photo backup, file sync and Nextcloud, with mirrored redundancy.
Homelab for gaming & VMs
One powerful box that serves both gaming and virtual machines — performance first.
Arr media automation server
A home server built for Jellyfin streaming with the *Arr automation stack (Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr) — hands-off downloads, transcoding and multi-user streaming.
Music streaming server
A home server built for self-hosted music streaming (Navidrome) plus your ebook and audiobook library — quiet, efficient and always on.
Immich photo server
A home server built for Immich photo backup with on-device ML tagging — large mirrored storage plus a GPU for face and object recognition.
Local LLM chat server
A home server built for private LLM chat (Ollama + Open WebUI), local code completion and LoRA fine-tuning — big VRAM, lots of RAM.
Llama 70B home server
A high-memory build for serving 70B-class local LLMs — multi-GPU territory, honestly specced.
Stable Diffusion workstation
A tower build for local image generation with 12GB+ VRAM, plus photo storage.
1440p gaming host
A gaming host for 1440p high settings with GPU passthrough, plus game servers.
AI coding corner
A budget build for local AI code completion with a 14B model, plus dev environments.
Local voice assistant hub
A small always-on hub for local voice control (Whisper + Piper) tied into Home Assistant — no cloud, quiet and efficient.
Home network security setup
A small always-on box for segmented home networking — router, firewall, WireGuard VPN and VLANs with 2.5GbE throughout.
Ad-blocking DNS server
A tiny always-on server for network-wide ad blocking (Pi-hole/AdGuard) behind a reverse proxy with uptime monitoring.
Self-hosted password manager server
A tiny always-on server for Vaultwarden password management with WireGuard remote access and encrypted backups.
Paperless document server
A home server built for Paperless-ngx document scanning with OCR search, Nextcloud sync and versioned backups.
Self-hosted email and chat server
A home server for Nextcloud productivity with self-hosted email (Mailcow/Mailu) and Matrix chat — your own cloud.
Kubernetes homelab server
A home server built for a k3s cluster with LXC containers and throwaway dev environments — lots of cores and RAM for lab experiments.
Self-hosted Git and CI server
A home server for Gitea code hosting with self-hosted CI runners plus Ansible and monitoring — your own GitHub.
Cloud gaming streaming host
A powerful host for streaming games over Sunshine/Moonlight with a dedicated GPU — low-latency play on any screen in the house.
Cold archive storage server
A high-capacity archive server for data that must be kept long-term — dual-parity protection and room to grow.
Minecraft game server
An always-on mini server for Minecraft — quiet, efficient, with automated world backups.
NAS for video editing
A high-capacity NAS tuned for video editing — fast network, room for footage, and safe redundancy.
Frigate NVR with Coral
A detection-first NVR for Frigate with Coral TPU acceleration — real-time object detection plus retention.