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>What software should I run? Install Gentoo. Or whatever flavour of *nix is best for the job or most comfy for you. Jellyfin/Plex to replace Netflix, Nextcloud to replace Googlel, ampache/Navidrome to replace spotify, the list goes on. Look at the awesome self-hosted list and ask.
>Why should I have a home server? /hsg/ is about learning and expanding your horizons. De-botnet your life. Learn something new. Serving applications to yourself, your family, and your frens feels good. Put your Any Forums skills to good use for yourself and those close to you. Store their data with proper availability redundancy and backups and serve it back to them with a /comfy/ easy to use interface.
storage spaces works fine for mirror etc but it has a lot of performance problems on the parity levels if you don't go full hog with ssd cache and all that. i would not recomend it unless you are running a bunch of hyper-v vms. go with stablebit drivepool instead
William Mitchell
thanks for making the thread, user.
Anyone got picrel? never any good objective and decent performance reviews for networking gear these days. >let me do a speedtest on my 100mb internet connection. Yup this thing is great! just give me the fucking iperf numbers at a range of distances and through walls.
>actually using Ubiquiti You'd think people would've learned to not use their hardware after they started putting ads in their router configuration pages
Isaiah Myers
>putting ads in their router configuration pages no ads on my edgemax. they make pretty good hardware for the price. it's either ubnt, engenius or mikrotik, they all have different strengths.
Levi Price
we dont do ubiquiti around here.
Brody Powell
>Stop Liking What I Don't Like! Cool, what AP do you use user?
Cooper Bailey
Start small. I split up my containers into categories - game servers go into games, torrent stack goes into torrents, Nextcloud and friends goes into Nextcloud, etc. From there, I'd recommend splitting networks into public and private - e.g. in case of Nextcloud public has the NC container and haproxy from other compose, private has NC and database and Redis. Mark networks with internal: true when you decide containers in a network don't need to be able to reach internet, minimizes lateral movement if some RCE happens.
Jack Morgan
some netgear router in AP mode
Dylan Lopez
I'm thinking of offsite back up solutions and I think i'll set up a server at my mothers house. Question though, I'm going to buy another server with the same specs and storage and install veeam on it like my local backup but I'm not going to fucking port foward my esxi instance through the internet. What's the best solution for this? I was thinking about setting up a WireGuard/OpenVPN tunnel that exclusively goes to the esxi instance.
Jacob Adams
Yeah, set up a tunnel.
Ryan King
since i posted it as the thread died, repost:
okay, i use truenas with 2x 16TB drives ina ZFS MIRROR pool. i have two datasets on this: media & data. each of these datasets has a smb share associated with them. so far so good and i can access everything as i want to.
when i mount these shares in Windows tho, it will show the wrong disk usage, pic related. left side is my windows, right one is my truenas ui. as you can see, the "free part" (7.83 TB) is correctly shown on both sides. it's the "overall disk space" that confuses me. Windows shows two different sizes (8.19 and 7.83 TB) while it should be something around 14.5 TB for both. any hints where i could look for the solution of this problem?
strangely enough, when i add another SMB share for the root dataset (which has both, media and data as childs), it still doesn't give me the whole share capacity
>I'm going to buy another server with the same specs for a backup server?... why?
Grayson Morales
if you don't want to port forward on your mothers end, consider setting up a VPN server on your main host and letting the backup machine connect to that over VPN as a client
Jace Bennett
yeah I probably wouldnt do that, just the storage matters
yeah I like this idea, going with this
Austin Long
mirror down to the bone
Asher Russell
I'm happy to report that the "motherfucking piece of shit buzzing" saga has concluded - wrapping the metal trays with gaffer's tape in places where they touch metal rails of case has completely fixed the issue. Jank as fuck, but whatever.
