/hsg/ is about learning and expanding your horizons. Know all about NAS? Learn virtualization. Spun up some VMs? Learn about networking by standing up a OPNsense/pfsense box and configuring some VLANs. There's always more to learn and chances to grow. Think you’re god-tier already? Setup OpenStack and report back.
>What software should I run? Install Gentoo. Or whatever flavor of *nix is best for the job or most comfy for you. Jellyfin to replace Netflix, nextcloud to replace Googlel, ampache to replace spotify, the list goes on and on. Look at the awesome self-hosted list and ask.
>Why should I have a home server? Learn something new. De-botnet your life. 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.
So what dictates the speed of your ZFS ARC? I know my HDDs are limited to ~1.1GB/s but if my dataset fits in the ARC shouldn't it be faster? or is it a CPU limitation?
(i just got a free 1TB 2.5" SSD with my latest Tiny purchase)
Adam Bailey
as if i cant get 12x1tb ssds free with the purchase of an r720
Anthony Bennett
How many GBs/TBs of data on your home server is important and worth backing up? So exclude torrents you can redownload, exclude other stuff you can fairly easily recreate, exclude backups (because you have a primary copy on your other devices), etc. Mine would be around 500 GB, if I excluded some source videos for a completed movie that I can't let go of, it would go down to 150-200 GB. Most of it is family photos.
Landon Rogers
about 20gig
Tyler Lewis
Maybe the network protocol you're using is bottlenecking you?
Cameron Rivera
IDK, using Truenas and SMB with multichannel. Highest thread usage according to truenas was 47% while total CPU utilization is ~25%. This is with a 4690K. I'm not familiar enough with samba to really know if it has it's own limitations. I know SMB in general is capable of being faster, I've ran RAM disks on Windows server and gotten 1.8GB/s before.
Samuel Ramirez
>ISP fucked something again >1 Gbps download, 0.1 Mbps upload with some packet loss >they acknowledged my report and did nothing so far symmetric connection, my ass
How would I go about having 2 WiFi networks on 2 APs and having those connected different VLANs? So I can separate my Home Assistant shit from my other devices. Do I need some proprietary ecosystem shit for this? Wouldn't mind going for TP-Link Omada, honestly, the wall mounted APs are perfect.
Julian Kelly
just trunk the APs with two different VLANs from the router they are presumably connected to? That's what I do, the client VLAN users will connect to from the wireless and the management that gives an address from the router to the AP itself.
James Diaz
>that's what I do correcting a bit, I don't have multiple APs but just feed/trunk different APs different client VLANs and you should be good
Nolan Butler
4th panel is realizing you don't need an x86 VPS and moving to a free ARM cloud instance from Oracle It's like a Pi in the sky but with more RAM
Adrian Fisher
In case anybody else was on the fence: luci-app-attended-sysupgrade works great for upgrading OpenWrt on x86 boxes. Just as seamless as on dedicated wireless routers and APs I've tried.
Evan Bailey
Have been out of touch for the past few years, what SBC should I buy for a basic home server (kodi, SMB, rsync, torrents) in 2022? Rapsberry 4's are more expensive than when they came out for some reason, I'm not paying that much for a 4 year old shitphone board. No more than 2gb RAM is probably necessary.
Charles Evans
Odroid H2+ or M1
Charles Clark
Some tinyminimicro might be a good choice. Quick rundown: faster than SBC, almost as low power as SBC, occasionally cheaper than SBC, almost as small as SBC. x86 so you'll be able to run anything.
Jaxon Ward
it's easier to find Pi 400 4GB (the keyboard ones) near MSRP and you get a dedicated keyboard for it. I use my Pi 4 2GB + shit ton of zram (scalpers HATE him) and make do. kodi as a server is... bad? you're probably thinking of jellyfin or plex which are possible but hardware transcoding is fucked right now. if you run a SMB share off it just make the clients do the work.
Isaac Collins
>just trunk the APs with two different VLANs from the router they are presumably connected to? They're supposed to be on the same VLANs, with 2 SSIDs for each VLAN. I'll need some kind of mesh because this shit is going to be in a 4 floor house (blame communism for such autistic designs). Maybe phones and laptops could get a signal with one AP, but I doubt an ESP8266 would.
