https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/71f8e7e6-a8fa-4de8-97b8-7ad5a0b9f7fb A home server from Black Friday deals: Uncle Darren buys a mini PC and a stack of drives, builds the family's apps, and goes home. Part two of The Black Friday Haul. Uncle Darren arrives with a mini PC home server and a stack of drives from the Black Friday deals: "We host it all ourselves. It's basically free." He gives up the weekend before the holidays to build it: a photo backup, a password vault, the shared calendar and the family's recipes, on one little box in Robin's cupboard. It's a lovely build. Tess's photos back up to the cupboard, Milo finds the pizza recipe, and Darren speedruns the lot. Then he goes home, and running your own server at home becomes Robin's job: the updates, the backups nobody has tested, and being on call, with the holidays a week away. Brilliant tools, built for tinkerers; the upkeep is the catch. ElfHosted doesn't do Black Friday discounts. Instead, any trial started in Black Friday week (Monday 23 November to Monday 30 November 2026), on any app or plan that has a trial, new customer or not, runs until 1 January 2027. The Black Friday Haul is a short animated saga from ElfHosted about one family's apps over the holidays: the deals, a home server from the sales, Christmas tech support, and a trial that runs to the new year. Each part stands on its own; watch them in order in the playlist on our channel. ElfHosted: https://elfhosted.com/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=haul-2-darren How ElfHosted trials work: https://docs.elfhosted.com/trial/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=haul-2-darren Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:17 A home server from Black Friday deals 0:39 The hidden costs of a home server About ElfHosted: we run open-source apps for you, kept updated and looked after by elves, so you get the apps without the upkeep. [s]elf-hosting without [s]uffering. https://elfhosted.com?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video #HomeServer #BlackFriday #ElfHosted Thu, 12 Nov 2026 02:55:35 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.elfhosted.com https://video.elfhosted.com/lazy-static/avatars/0ad9ef41-d7cc-447f-b89c-24dcddbb6422.png https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/71f8e7e6-a8fa-4de8-97b8-7ad5a0b9f7fb All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.elfhosted.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.