The Raspberry Pi Thread

LaatSahab said:
I am running PiHole, Plex, Samba, and Deluge Seedbox on my Rpi 4, 4GB version. I have an RPi 3 B+ lying spare. What else can I deploy on my home network that would make it a better and more secure environment? I was thinking of a VPN server, a mail server (for my own domain), and a DNS server. Please share your views on running these servers on RPi, and if you have some ideas or alternatives for the same or different to add.
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You can run n8n on your RPI4. It can do some simple automations. Also hosting your own mail is not recommended but for learning you can try it.
 
LaatSahab said:
I am running PiHole, Plex, Samba, and Deluge Seedbox on my Rpi 4, 4GB version. I have an RPi 3 B+ lying spare. What else can I deploy on my home network that would make it a better and more secure environment? I was thinking of a VPN server, a mail server (for my own domain), and a DNS server. Please share your views on running these servers on RPi, and if you have some ideas or alternatives for the same or different to add.
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How does it fare? Can it handle 4K video transcoding? And, in your experience, will everything else work fine when doing that? I especially don't want to affect my network latency, so I keep my Pi pretty light
 
4K content I avoid like the plague because even on 1080P, the H.265 profile content lags quite a lot in Plex, which is visible in the form of frequent buffering over home WiFi. VLC plays 99% of 1080P content without any issue. To date, I'm not able to identify where the bottleneck is, bandwidth or processing power? If splitting the load would help, then I would rather shift NAS and Seedbox duties to RPi 3 B+ and keep PMS and PiHole on RPi 4
 
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