Presi300
@Presi300@lemmy.world
Professional Neckbeard
- Comment on Looking to move on from Unraid, need suggestions. 3 weeks ago:
TrueNAS Scale if you want something simple that just works and Proxmox if you wanna configure/customize stuff with a lot more power under the hood…
Imo, either choice is better than unraid.
- Comment on Antman - Android Tab Manager 3 weeks ago:
My question is… why proton drive and not github or codeberg or… literally any VCS?
- Comment on How do you use only ipv6 server? 1 month ago:
You sell it and buy a normal one /s
- Comment on Would you buy "self-hosted in a box" hardware? 2 months ago:
150$ is rather ambitious for what you are describing as a custom made low power server. Managing to build something… Anything commercial out of new, hell even refurbished parts that has enough horse power to run anything more than a pihole/DNS server at this price point would be a challenge and a half. If you’re going refurbished/2nd hand, you’re likely gonna spend half of that on just shipping the parts to you.
I believe you are vastly underestimating the price of new low end parts and vastly overestimating the capabilities and availability of old micro servers. I’d say something like this would work at a price range of around 300~400$ (and even that’s ambitious imo).
And even then, that’s a NICHE audience you’d be targeting. It would be people who don’t wanna pay subscriptions, but also don’t wanna be bothered to spend a day or 2 figuring out how to set up a simple linux box on an old computer they have. I’m not saying that audience doesn’t exist, it’s just veeeeery niche.
- Comment on NAS / NAS + server? Unraid, Proxmox, Intel, AMD? Looking for guidance. 2 months ago:
I’m biased towards TrueNAS scale, because in my experience, it’s been really rock solid, running on bare metal. It also allows you to setup things like Nextcloud/Tailscale/ a lot more, in 1 click from their “app store”. It’s also got all the virtualization bells and whistles. As for ZFS, again, just like everything else, it’s been rock solid and setting up a ZFS pool is pretty much done for you when you install TN Scale.
As for remote access, I’ve always personally done it via a local Wireguard server and can’t really compare it to tailscare or whatever cloudflare does… Because I’ve never used those.
- Comment on I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x 3 months ago:
I mean, all of my cables are CAT 5e and I can easily pull a gigabit down and up from my NAS… Which has a gigabit NIC, so ig you’re right.
- Comment on I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x 3 months ago:
CAT8 40MB/s
I think you went a but overkill with that one, high quality CAT6 cables would have done the same job, but hey, if it works, it works.
- Comment on How do I determine if a CPU is better than another one? 3 months ago:
For desktop CPUs… Higher number = better. That’s it. i5 > i3 > pentium… etc. For laptop CPUs… Good luck
- Comment on What do you prefer to selfhost? 4 months ago:
The main things for me are: Wireguard, NextCloud and an NFS/SMB share and a torrent client (Deluge)
- Comment on Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times? 4 months ago:
I power off my main server during the night cuz it’s too loud, but I have a secondary one (an old mini-pc) to handle sh!t like wireguard, PiHole and DNS
- Comment on Advice for layout 4 months ago:
16 GB is pleeeeenty for TrueNAS scale
- Comment on Advice for layout 4 months ago:
It’s say definitely try TrueNAS scale, it’s dead simple to setup and dead simple to use. You can also run VMs on it along side the apps.
- Comment on Good foss pastbin 4 months ago:
Not really easy to selfhost atm, but FOSS and we’ll get there eventually…
- Comment on Old microserver bad idea? 4 months ago:
I have a big boi ProLiant DL380e Gen8 and it’s pretty good as long as you have a dedicated room for it as it’s really loud. If you get them for really cheap like I did (I got mine maxed out for less than 100$), then yeah it’s a good deal.
It’s not amazing on power consumption either with like 130W at idle… I’d imagine the smaller ones using use less power, but I wouldn’t count on it. However, if the price is right, then it could absolutely be worth it… If you can withstand the noise.
- Comment on Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked? 4 months ago:
I feel like you have the wrong idea if what hacking acting a actually is… But yes, as long as you don’t do anything too stupid line forwarding all of your ports or going without any sort of firewall, the chances of your getting hacked are very low…
As for DDOSing, you can get DDOSed with or without self hosting all the same, but I wouldn’t worry about it.
- Comment on How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves? 6 months ago:
I just did a big upgrade to my “home-lab” (got a new switch and moved it out of my bedroom), which required some maintenance in the days, after the upgrade… Running a new ethernet cable, because the old one just couldn’t heck doing gigabit, reconfiguring my router and AP, just general stuff like that.
Other than that and my DHCP/DNS VM sometimes forgetting to autostart after a power outage, pretty much 0 maintenance
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
My situation with data backup is… well I have none, nor can i really afford to invest into more hardware at the moment. I am running RAIDz1, on my NAS so that gives me a small amount of protection in case a drive in it does go bad ig.
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
Nah, that’s what my phone is for :)
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
That is one of the things I’ve thought of doing with it, like a dedicated game streaming machine. It’s got gigabit LAN and a dedicated, even if not latest gen GPU, so yn
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
That is a neat idea, however I don’t really have a “media center” or a TV for that matter, as I always just watch stuff on my PC… That and I am not the type of person who’s gonna go buying movies on disc…
I just pirate that sh!t - Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
Yeah, that’s another thing I was gonna ask about… How does one properly dispose of a battery?
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
Thing is, it’s gonna need a lot more than a “recondition” to get it back to a “usable as a laptop” status. New screen, new battery, new bottom panel (yeah, that). And I do have some ideas of how to get extra use out of it, occasionally, as my homelab isn’t particularly powerful, I just wanted to get a 2nd opinion about it.
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
It would bug me a ton if I were to recycle it, as it still technically works, it’s just not worth repairing, as the total cost pretty much equals to getting the same one, but working 2nd hand…
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
I mean, ultimately, if I can’t find anything else to do with it, I might do that.
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
It does work without the battery and the model is: dell G3 3579, I just didn’t think the model was that important to mention.
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
Already got all of that from a VM off my homelab
- Submitted 8 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 63 comments
- Comment on What does your current setup look like? 8 months ago:
I only use the highest of grade when it comes to hardware
Case: found in the trash
Motherboard: some random Asus AM3 board I got as a hand-me down.
CPU: AMD FX-8320E (8 core)
RAM: 16GB
Storage: 5x2tb hdds + 128gb SSD and a 32GB flash drive as a boot device
That’s it… My entire “homelab”
- Comment on Jellyfin on FreeBSD 9 months ago:
The fact that debian GNU/FreeBSD died before debian GNU/Hurd is kinda sad, honestly
- Comment on Jellyfin on FreeBSD 9 months ago: