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xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days agoYeah, I tend to do that and you’re probably right.
Was just talking with a coworker and maybe I’ll just start with saving images and backing them up to AWS glacier or some other cheap cloud storage. That way my data is safe in case I fuck up my setup.
After reading about proxmox, I decided to go with containers and smaller, specialized services first, as getting to know container stuff is one of my goals for a homelab.
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This is some crazy good advice. In the software dev/IT fields I preach about premature optimization to my reports all the time.
You can’t optimize something that doesn’t exist. Figure out exactly what you want to build (so you want video streaming mostly it sounds like, then you can figure out how to build it (probably either a NAS or just a tower with a bunch of drives in it. And then Plex/Jellyfin). Then, after you build it, you can use it.
You’ll only find things to fix/make better by actually using it. Focus on getting the thing done, then you can optimize.