It does take quite a bit of upkeep, especially if you don’t use it frequently. I recently found my instance broke due to a bad addon, and then Authelia also broke because NC decided thier OIDC addon is not supported on the latest v32. I was able to re-enable without issue, but still flagged as unsupported.

Sounds like I’m talking myself into Immich already haha.

I simply don’t put data I care about on USB drives any more. They are all basically boot drives or a way to transfer firmware files.

The issue for me is that Nextcloud has these features as well with App add-ons. I have yet to try Immich because what’s more important for me is the actual backup\upload of my photos than actually browsing them. Maybe someday, but my self hosting initiatives typically involve me chasing a shiny red ball of a deployment, and Immich just isn’t shiny enough for me yet.

Just buy a domain for 10-20 a year and host a dynamic IP updater internally. Just another layer to self hosting and getting off cloud services entirely.

At least you can still program those remotes though. Mine is still going strong after many years.

This is the one I went with along with a supermicro server board. The company has been great as I’ve already needed replacement rack screws and a new control board due to my own foolishness. They shipped me replacements at no charge very promptly.

https://a.co/d/a1kZQYX

Same recommendation here. I went through two QNAP units before being fed up and building my own 12 Bay for about 1200. My first QNAP died shortly after the 3 year warranty expired and the second died shortly before. I was able to RMA the second and sell it to recoup some money towards building my own TrueNAS system that I can now fix myself and not rely on proprietary anything.

Holy shit, I love you wind taking abilities. I too had no idea who he was but thankfully don’t have to deal with confronting propogandized family members.

Again, your ISP does DSCP markings. They will only benefit you if you are facing congestion issues inside your local network. When that external FaceTime call packet is received by your router, if you receive it at all because your ISP doesn’t care about markings, and you are having Internet issues, it’s going to reach your end point crazy fast inside your LAN, but I bet the call will drop regardless because the UDP steam is either too jittered, or completely frozen anyway because of the upstream ISP issue.

It’s great to configure this to understand the principle, but I’ve been in the industry long enough to know when QoS is required over a 10MB MPLS pipe, and not required over a 1GB+ pipe. The pipes are so big today that flow control has little use case any longer and can cause more issues and hand holding configuration than necessary.

I guess what I’m trying to say is if you’re having issues with your home Internet, you will see it regardless of how much mitigation you try to configure inside your own LAN.

Flow control is really a thing of the past. In production, we mark priority based on source port and destination host at the WAN edge. SMB\NFS replication across the WAN is an example of this. As another commented mentioned, voice should be tagged at the switch later and carried over the network. Tagging at your router is a moot point in residential because your ISP is discarding any DSCP you hand them.

I was a little unfair in my post towards Proxmox. It really is a great solution and I can’t really complain, but it sucks in comparison to ESX where many “custom” items are still hidden in the cli or custom configuration items,. Many of these things are available in the GUI in ESX which is a pretty rough translation for some that have worked in ESX for many years like myself. ESX isn’t without it’s CLI moments but they are rarely ever needed, and if needed only for drastic measures.

The UI is not very intuitive and really looks quite dated too. ESX, Nutanix and XCP-NG have much better interfaces imo, and if Proxmox could throw some of that extra money they’ve earned from the VMware exodus in their UI it would be worthwhile.

Again, I shouldn’t complain but as I get older there’s not much “tinkering” time anymore, and the less time I have to sift through forum posts or official documentation on why something isn’t working as intended, the more easily frustrated I get.

Don’t go Podman. When I started years ago I installed Fedora with the “containerization” option. This installs podman, not docker as I’m sure most know. I did not.

Podman works great for the most part, but it’s slight differences from docker will have you fighting tooth and nail for certain services to work correctly. And not many (if any at all) have any documentation on getting their containers working with Podman of they don’t start. If you make a GitHub issue asking why or how to get things running in Podman because their docker stack doesn’t work flawlessly like it will in docker, good luck getting help (Mailcow comes to mind specifically here).

Looking back, this decision really shoehorned some very fundamental ideals about containers in my mind, but it was a long fought road I would not choose again. The knowledge I gained about containers with docker would have come soon enough on the easy road.

And yes, you can install Docker on Fedora, but I was much too far down the Podman track before finding out. My environment has changed drastically as of late and most things have been migrated to docker apps in Truenas now, living directly next to their storage as intended (the arr stacks really take a performance hit running their databases over NFS once you have a lot of media for example).

Quick note about Proxmox after coming from ESX myself - it sucks compared to ESX. I’ve tried to move away from it and Nutanix was the closest I could find to ESX, but after my server started complaining it’s drives were not compatible I jumped ship to avoid any write damage to them. I’m downsizing my lab now, I have proxmox running in 3 small NUCs with CEPH storage share and it’s working pretty good. Would love to run ESX or Nutanix instead, but they require a loaf of bread in resource requirements where proxmox only needs a slice of bread in comparison.

I’ll save the drip, I’d like sour milk after sitting by the time I need to use the tap.

As of the last update released on August 1st, the “old” VMs are now visible again. The latest Electric Eel chain also merged all Core features into Scale, so the jump should not be as drastic any longer. I’ve always lived on Scale, but I assume you could try backing up your config and spinning up a new Scale VM and restoring the backup to it. No matter how you dice it though, it will be spicy!

What type of disk (HDD or SSD) and how many disks in the pool?

RAIDZ1 configuration will bring your write speed down some due to data having to write to multiple disks at a time. This is true for most any RAID. Once written, your read speeds should remain the same or improve a bit though.

AMD is apparently king now, and Intel has had some pretty big snafus in recent years. Personally I see them as interchangable.

I’ve never heard of that manufacturer for power supplies. The first search result I saw on that model is a PSA to not get it with many comments that they don’t work. I would go for an MSI or EVGA PSU instead. Everything else looks good.

Oh nice, he may have already set it with account whitelist them, I’ll have to ask.

I’m not exactly sure how they set up the back end. We are all home labbers though and I haven’t seen any unknown players on. One of our guys is on through most of his work day and would have noticed too.

I’ll mention it for sure though, just might be a pain if one of our IPs changes and they may not go for it. Thanks for the suggestion!

My friends and I recently fired up a private (local) Minecraft server with mine colonies, man of many planes, and a few other select mods. We connect directly via IP at my friend’s house and only we are on the server, so no worries of griefers or internet randos.

Mine colonies is a lot of fun. Takes out a lot of the monotonous building exercises if your not very creative with making actual buildings, and leaves you to explore as you want.

We all have separate colonies but decided a few villages we can only work on together when more than one person is online and have to work together on the same village.