Epzillon

Hello /c/selfhosted!

Im sorry if this is not the place to ask but i figured id give it a shot. Mods feel free to delete if i should post elsewhere.

Im currently contemplating building an actual home server. My problem is i have no idea what to prioritize in a server. My main concern is probably power consumption and price. It doesnt really need to be a brast. I currently self host a media center on my gaming rig which id like to move over and id like to be able to host stuff like Immitch and maybe some game servers from time to time.

Im fairly confident in my building skulle since ive built a fair share of gaming rigs over the years but i dont really know whats optimal in a server setting. So i come to you to ask about this landscape.

Im thinking good amount of RAM a fairly recent AMD processor on an unspecified motherboard. I do have an M.2 and extra HDD lying around and also an old GPU (GTX 960) but idk if GPU matters. In any case, how would one go about reducing power consumption, my first idea was underclocking the CPU even though i know AMDs recent CPUs should be pretty efficient. But is there any other, better, solutions to bring down idle consumption?

As stated im pretty fresh on this. Closest ive gotten to a home server is a couple of RPis. Any information or tips are very welcomed!

(Edits: typos)

Hello lemmings! I have recently started the process of setting up my own Pi-Hole, I am a developer and pretty comfortable with Linux but I am a bit of a newcomer when it comes to networking.

Now, during the process I noticed that the VPN I use (Mullvad) claim to have DNS leaks (This is a bit obvious since I was no longer using the DNS they expected in the VPN tunnel). So after reading a bit on the pi-hole guides I figured I'd set up a cloudflared service, but instead of using the cloudflare dns-query I route it to Mullvads own DNS.

Now this works fine and all, it's DoH and running Mullvads own DNS to query so Mullvads own tool is happy with the DNS settings I have.

However, I also read about unbound in the Pi-Hole guides. I was curious if this was to prefer over cloudflared? Since I am running through Mullvads own DNS I don't think there should be any issues. However locally hosting your own recursive DNS server also sounds good.

What is your opinion? Is it overkill? Is what I have now enough or should I try to set up unbound aswell?

Happy with just a discussion around this to learn more, just curious whether I should continue cooking on what I have now or if I should just focus on getting the entire network set up to use this.