Its true all i have are cat pictures and grafana dashboards
Me after mailing tape backups to a vault in every country so my cat pics and ps2 iso’s can survive ww3
Edit: perfect nerd bait this site is all nerds
Fuck I’m tagged
That sub has useful information, but it has so many gearheads buying $500 routers and building $5k server racks that sound like jet engines for backing up their photos and watching a few hours of TV every day.
You can pry my YAML from my cold dead hands
No please take yaml away, it sucks ass
it was a good post, and we can’t have that, so the subreddit’s mods had to remove it smh
I live this thread, I’m a gamedev and it makes me feel normal for once
I had an old Arch laptop as my server for the longest time, and just set up a fresh Debian server with the *arr stack, qbittorrent, airsonic-advanced, calibre-web, and jellyfin - almost everything from LinuxServer.io. I used Cloudflare tunnels for the web-facing services and have the torrents running through AirVPN via gluetun. Everything is in docker containers run in separate users.
I feel like I learned a shit-ton doing this so if anyone has a computer sitting around and wants to try dipping their toes into self-hosting, hit me up. I have a bit of free time and am willing to walk you through it and answer questions at any pain points. I should maybe make a post in piracy offering the same.
I have a 42TB raidz2-0 array, 1TB NVMe boot disk running nixos… its excessive but super reliable! I just wish I had a server rack chassis to put it in.
2·4 hours agoHow much power does such a setup pull
Like 52W (8.8W * 6) peak for the disks. I use a mix of drives so I could be off by a few watts. I would like to measure the total draw, I tried to pick energy efficient parts and settings, but I don’t really know what the end result actually is. One perk of my parts selection is that the loudest part of the whole machine is the disk array! Idk if that translates at all to power draw, but its a nice quality of life thing.
I really appreciate the repetition of the central thesis (“you are all a bunch of sick freaks”). That’s solid writing.
God, I wish. I can’t get my Optiplex to stay on so I can remote to it consistently. Even then, I struggle to get Docker working, even when I add my users to the docker group
After a few years I’ve ended up with Kodi and a bare minimum setup that keeps things as easy for me as possible. The biggest problem I have rn is that my usb HDD enclosures default to off after power loss.
Ain’t nothing wrong with Kodi and some network share. It’s what I started with and gave me the least frustration, Kodi is pretty solid at playing just about any old crap
I feel like something about our society means that there is a lot of anxiety about relatively minor choices in our lives which means we feel like we have to justify them, which results in nerds believing that their hobby is something important enough to spiral over
yeah honestly, all power to the home-self-hosters but I’m so burnt out I’m not dealing with any more of that shit unless I’m paid. Last thing I want to do after spending my whole week trying to unfuck the heap of infrastructure you end up with after 15 years of “move fast and break things” is pour over my own kernel logs so I can figure out why I can’t watch TV today
Just using Jellyfin + 2 sata HDDs + an always on computer, for my selfhost
that’s how we all begun i fear
Raid is for cowards. I have a singular 12tb used hard drive for everything. It literally can’t break
WD external from 2008, its always made that noise thats just how things were made
No RAID! Only backups!RAID fucks up often enough and adds enough complexity that I’m honestly considering this approach. Maybe I’m just going crazy.
Mines been telling me failure imminent spin retry count too high for years now and do i believe it? No! Get back to work!
I have a PC running OpenMediaVault (NAS) with about 8 terabytes of movies and TV shows, and a separate PC running Jellyfin and Plex accessing the video files through a samba share.
I’m sure r/selfhosted would give me all sorts of shit for not running those services in VMs on a single machine. Maybe when I can find a more powerful computer to do that on…
