This is they way. At least in the US where these things are very cheap. In my country you need to bee very lucky to even find the old ones for under $150…

Proxmox cluster. And you can run all your services in LXC containers instead. And not have to bother with docker? And have cetralized storage to your NAS?

Lucky you. These are fun machines!

I lived in a dorm room at uni. And we didn’t pay for electricity in the common areas. One christmas they turned off the heating for some reson. I got so frustrated I turned on the ovens in the kitchen and opened them up to heat the kitchen/living area. Which worked. But it was probably not cheap for them after a few days :)

Bigger powerbricks with splitters perhaps?

Got myself NVME SSD read cache for my DS918+. Hoping to improve speed when browsing media libraries in apps like Jellyfin.

It actually automatically tracked every container on my local docker host by default on install. But you need to configure the notifications and the triggers for more granularity. Very nice!

I just find new great software to tinker with every day on this sub. Luckliy I am on sickleave and have plenty of time. Othervise this sub is anxeity inducing 🤓

If you want to track docker images, I just found ”What’s up docker” and am using it as we speak :)

I think that was the longest feature list I have ever seen! 😁This looks more complete then any of the other popular ones. Do you agree?

Get any Synology plus model (the non-plus ones are too weak to anything other then serving files) and then go to mariushosting and read up on how to specifically do everything you need to run a long list of self-hosted software (on docker) for Synology. There are detailed step-by-step intructions on everything you need, including deploying paperless-ngx on your NAS.

If you feel it’s something you will be able to do, just buy it and get started.

FYI: I read this while pooping :)

You might want to add what you are planning to run it on?

Tube Archivist. It’s perfect for that. Your kids don’t even need to know Youtube exists. I just installed it and imported years of downloaded YT videos. The search engine finds anything in milliseconds!

Add another mini PC off of ebay and you are golden. I’m running most of this on a Synology NAS with a much weaker CPU. It is not quick but OK. Unless you want to add much more than this it will be just fine.

I did not know this feature existed. On to creating a separate gmail for my services!

Some kind of photo management and backup system. I never went the Google Photos route and am now very happy with using Synology Photos and doing backups of my entire diigital life with Synology Hyperbackup. Works great even when NOT exposing it to the internet.

And of course Jellyfin for media streaming.