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- Comment on Search of the Perfect Self-Hosted Setup for B2B Contractors 8 months ago:
This isn’t exactly an answer, but something like Baserow or NocoDB could be helpful. They’re self hosted versions of Airtable (if you’ve ever used that). Basically it’s a very fancy spreadsheet that can be used to do a ton of custom logic. If you can’t find software that fits your exact needs, chances are you could set something up with one of these! Good luck!
- Comment on Looking for the Perfect USB Flash Drive 8 months ago:
Yeah seems like sandisk ultra is the way to go. Do you know, is there any disadvantage to using the “Ultra Fit” line of smaller drives that sit much more flush to the case? Those look nice, but IDK if there are performance issues with the smaller package
- Comment on Looking for the Perfect USB Flash Drive 8 months ago:
Yeah, sadly it does have a M.2 slot but it’s not SATA or NVMe, but instead SDIO. Someone out there has actually made an adapter that lets you put an sd card into that slot, which is super cool. But probably no better that a flash drive realistically, and much more expensive (you have to get the adapter manufactured)
- Comment on Looking for the Perfect USB Flash Drive 8 months ago:
Yeah, I have one of those and it’s great but I need very little storage for this system (64g max) so I didn’t feel like it made sense in this case.
- Submitted 8 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 11 months ago:
I’ve done a whole bunch of things but the problem is that the issue w/ the OS locking up was intermittent, so really between every change I would have to wait and see and risk downtime.
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 11 months ago:
I’ve thought about that before, I’ve used proxmox in the past and liked it. The hope I guess would be that proxmox is better able to handle the physical hardware than Unraid is, and the Unraid can blissfully mismanage it’s vCPUs all it wants! I don’t love the overhead of having a hypervisor, but maybe it would be worth it in this case.
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 11 months ago:
You’re right and that’s exactly my plan! I’m going to get 2 20TB drives the next time I need to upgrade, that way I can keep the number of drives low.
With my current power usage and energy prices I’m paying $280 per year for this server alone, so I’m pretty well incentivized to replace parts (particularly since I can sell the parts I’m replacing to offset even further). With my current plans I’ll see a positive ROI within a year almost guaranteed
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 11 months ago:
Oh yeah these are super cool. Seems like they’ve gotten pretty expensive lately though, I can’t seem to find a good deal on Aliexpress
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 11 months ago:
Yeah, the power supply is absolutely too big. I think I used it for a gaming pc before this, so it’s in the ballpark of 800W. I also doubt it was a particularly efficient one to begin with, since I don’t care much if a gaming PC is effecint since I don’t keep it on.
I’ll look into getting a lower-power one for cheap and see if that helps. Thanks!
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 11 months ago:
I would, and I plan to someday, but my whole storage system is setup on it and migrating would be an enormous pain. Also right now I rely on it’s ability to create a RAID array with differently sized drives. Next time I upgrade, I plan go get homogeneous drives, so maybe then would be the time to move away from Unraid.
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 11 months ago:
Oh interesting, that sound plausible. I’ll check out the bios and see if I can find that setting. Thanks!
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 11 months ago:
Okay maybe I can mess with that. I think when I initially was having problems I just nuked everything I could related to power states just to get things working again. Maybe I can try turning some stuff back on.
I’m only running 3hdds at the moment, and they’re setup to spin down automatically which does save some power for sure.
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 11 months ago:
Yeah good point. I’ve been slowly working to move away from Unraid for those reasons, and have been having fun trying NixOS.
Anyway, I just made a post on the official support forums so hopefully I can get this looked at. Since I initially had the problems many updates have come out, so maybe it’s not a thing anymore. I just can’t risk testing that for myself!
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 11 months ago:
It’s not that easy sadly. The entire NAS runs on Unraid and the issue is with that OS. I can’t switch without totally restarting from scratch which would be a huge data migration, and a massive PITA configuration-wise.
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 11 months ago:
Okay that’s good to know. Right now I’m only using ZFS for the ssds so it’s only like 2TBs, but I eventually want the ability to migrate the main array which will be more like 40TB (raw capacity, so some will be used for parity)
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 11 months ago:
I specifically had to set things up in the BIOS so that it would never enter any efficient power/sleep states. It’s a bug in the OS I’m using that was forcing me to do it, otherwise the whole thing would lock up on me.
That said, I have some smart-plugs that do power monitoring. I can try hooking up the nas to one of those just for kicks, it should be accurate enough for this sort of thing.
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 11 months ago:
I guess that’s a good point, but then is the right move to just get the lowest power CPU possible? I really don’t need it to do all that much and rn it’s hogging power.
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 11 months ago:
I have the nas connected to a UPS that reports it’s power draw and it sits at about 100W at all times. There are one or two other small devices connected to it usually, so the nas itself is probably using a hair less that that at idle, but still it’s quite high.
- Submitted 11 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 40 comments
- Comment on Kubernetes? docker-compose? How should I organize my container services in 2024? 11 months ago:
That’s an interesting issue. Do you think the problem would be the same for any CSI plugin? I’m thinking of using my NAS as the storage brains of the operation and hooking it up with NFS or something, but would that have issues with stateful stuff like DB’s too?
- Comment on Kubernetes? docker-compose? How should I organize my container services in 2024? 11 months ago:
This is awesome, ZeroToNix is exactly what I was looking for. I’ve been interested in trying NixOS for a while but I always found the documentation obtuse (extensive, which is great, but not super beginner friendly). I’ll give it a try!
- Comment on Kubernetes? docker-compose? How should I organize my container services in 2024? 11 months ago:
This seems like a sensible choice, but it would be a bit messy for multi-node which is the direction I’m heading in
- Comment on Kubernetes? docker-compose? How should I organize my container services in 2024? 11 months ago:
Thanks for this, I’ve been sort if interested in both Nomad and NixOS for the exact reasons it seems like you use them. Thanks for linking that repo, I’ll check it out for inspiration!
Do you find that you sometimes struggle to get things working in Nomad? My one worry is that, because it’s not as well established as kubernetes or docker, there won’t be good compatibility or documentation. For example most services in their docs will show how to deploy with kubernetes or docker, but rarely Nomad. Do you find that it’s easy enough to translate these instructions that it doesn’t matter?
- Comment on Hosting websites over 4g 11 months ago:
I mean I think it really depends on the type of website you’re trying to host. A static blog for example would use way less bandwidth than a media server for example. Traffic would have the same effect too, where 1 concurrent visitor to a blog would probably be fine but 10,000 would be a problem.
- Comment on Kubernetes? docker-compose? How should I organize my container services in 2024? 11 months ago:
Thanks, yeah I’ve heard good things about casaOS. I think that I’m trying to move in the other direction though: fewer UI’s and more CLI’s + Configuration files.
- Comment on Kubernetes? docker-compose? How should I organize my container services in 2024? 11 months ago:
Yes very true, I really would much prefer GitOps as I feel… uneasy about how handwired and ephemeral my current setup is and would love it to be more declarative and idempotent. It does seem like Kubernetes is the way to do that.
- Comment on Kubernetes? docker-compose? How should I organize my container services in 2024? 11 months ago:
Yeah I guess that’s true, I do think the other part about having configs done programatically is a lot more important anyway. If things go down but all it takes to get it back is to re-run the configs from files then it’s not so bad
- Comment on Kubernetes? docker-compose? How should I organize my container services in 2024? 11 months ago:
Thanks. Yeah I’m temped to try kubernetes because of what you mentioned. I really like that every part that I need (ingress controller, certs, etc) are considered part of the core service and are built in. Right now I just have to run that stuff like it’s own service and wire everything up by hand. I don’t think I mind the extra overhead of kubernetes either, I love to tinker with that sort of thing anyway!
I think I will try a couple of things though. Maybe find a set of services to deploy with each and compare the experiences.
- Comment on Kubernetes? docker-compose? How should I organize my container services in 2024? 11 months ago:
Haha yeah true, but it does come with the advantage that it’s super prevalent and so has a lot of tools and docs. Nearly every self-hosted service I use has a docs page for how to set it up with Kubernetes. (Although it’s not nearly as prevalent as plain docker)