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Not something that would have to be on all the time, but more something that can be off overnight. This question feels like it has an obvious yes/no answer that I'm missing.

Edit: pihole was a bad example

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[–] porksandwich9113 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From experience I would say avoid this. I started my homelab this way. First it was a plex server just so 1 family member could locally stream movies without me having to copy it to a flash drive. Then another family member saw it, so it was 2, then 3. Less than a year later I have ~10-15 regular regular streamers and I can't play video games on my computer from the hours of 4PM to 1AM because my CPU was being hit so hard.

Eventually I built a new gaming rig, pulled out my GPU. Turned the old machine into a full time server and gamed on the new machine.

[–] jws_shadotak 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Exactly the same thing I did. Now I'm looking to upgrade my server PC cus it's still running an i5-4690K and struggles if anyone needs transcoding.

[–] porksandwich9113 1 points 2 years ago

Haha that sounds familiar. My plex server is on a 4770k and my unRAID server is on a 4790k. Finally getting parts to decommission the 4770k.