Isn’t that the goal? If you have an old drawer full of unorganized stuff, implementing a selfhosted management tool is getting an organizer and thinking about how to fill it, but you still have to sort your stuff in.
The only selfhosted thing where I really have to re-organize is my documents in paperless but I’m so glad to finally have it all organized and searchable instead of some hot mess of an inconsistent folder structure.
I used to do this. Didn’t know the tutorial but used this part of the documentation: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Installation
I switched to have an unencrypted proxmox partition and have all VM disks on an encrypted partition, mostly to have reboot working.
My NAS ist almost exclusively backups. Just installed TrueNAS to have a GUI for ZFS and NFS.
The reason is easy: one likes the fediverse, wants to contribute for it and wants to enabled people to use it even if they can’t afford to pay for it.
On a smaller scale, that’s not much of a problem. I’m glad I can host for some people who don’t have money at all. Some of the others donate and some don’t and that’s fine as well.
“Stranglehold” lmao. They invented the threadiverse and they are welcoming other implementations like mbin and piefed. That’s the opposite of a stranglehold.
Go cancel yourself
Solarpunks can have a little downtime, as a treat
Idk, you can probably ask the owner via the shop
The latter, it’s all 3D printed rackmounts
This is the first time I’ve heard about using UPS for something other than powering computers in case of a blackout. Shouldn’t the power supplies take care of the rest? Never heard of reducing wear and tear by external components.
That sounds like a good opportunity for offsite backup!
Oh cool! Wheels are definitely a good idea. I thought about a UPS but our grid is super stable and apparently they cause their own problems now and then.
Thanks!
Yeah, couldn’t resist the sticker :D
They are connected to the mini PC below. This mainboard has 4 connectors.
Yeah maybe I’ll try to fit in some faster Ethernet adapters at some point, but currently it’s mostly just the daily VM snapshots and since those are automated, the speed isn’t that important anyways. Just in case of a potential recovery.
Offsite backup at some family member’s place is planned at some point as well, but not fully thought through yet.
No, WAN is the family lan. It’s connected to one of the actual router’s ports (some Fritzbox connected to the ISP). 192.168.1 is inactive, I was just messing around with it when I got the unit.
I’m all on SSDs since I don’t need that much storage, so 2.5 is what I need anyways. There’s a 3x ZFS mirror of 1.8TB SSDs in there, 4th bay is currently empty.
K8S is a whole different approach and I find it to be a lot more complex, but you would not need virtual machines. If all your applications are running in containers anyways, you could consider it. Finding a good solution for persistent storage is probably the most important design decision.
Yeah I think of it the other way round: I couldn’t get myself to organize them without combining it with a nice selfhosted tool. The goal is getting my stuff organized, the cost is doing work, which includes setting up a system. I can cheat on the cost a little by including a fun project in the cost part.
I do think there’s a hidden cost in selfhosting though and it’s maintenance. Fortunately, there’s selfhosted tools that help with that too :-)