Comment on Battle of the noobs: CasaOS X Yunohost X TrueNAS Scale
koala@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
YunoHost is very nice to run on a VPS (or a box at home, or anything). It has good email hosting support, and I feel people without systems administration experience could get it running and host a couple of apps for a group without too much trouble.
TrueNAS Scale has awesome NAS capabilities. ZFS is the bomb. Plus, they are integrating Incus, which I’m a huge fan of. I think it hits a sweet spot for people with systems administration experience. Just install it and you get great NAS capabilities, the option of running a K8S instance, LXC/VM capabilities, and some “app catalog” (I test drove that briefly and it looked decent, but I think less hands-free than Yunohost.). My pet peeve (and I understand why they do this) is that you need separate drives for the OS and for data, so if you want redundancy you need 4 drives- which is likely fine for home use, but I’d like to run TrueNAS Scale on a Hetzner dedicated server, and that increases costs a lot.
If your primary desire is to run a few apps and you want to minimize your learning/effort, I’d check out YunoHost. If you want to do more, but also invest more time, TrueNAS Scale is awesome.
Dremor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You don’t need 4 drive for redundancy, 2 is enough. You only need 4 minimum for a raidz2, or raid 10.
My setup uses a pair of SSD in mirror for apps, and a 5 disk raidz2 (4 data disk + a hot spare) as a main data backbone.
koala@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
You need two drives for the OS, four for data. Hetzner boxes are cheap with 2 drives, cost multiplies if you add any other.