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- Comment on Encrypted P2P Chat 56 minutes ago:
Oh, ok, that was practically it. I just went in to test it yesterday, but had nobody to test with, hence the question about a channel/group. But after this video and a night of sleep, my brain finally caught up. This is not geared towards that, but rather exclusively p2p.
I’m sorry for my dumb question. And thank you again for clarifying.
- Comment on Encrypted P2P Chat 14 hours ago:
Is there a channel/group to start on?
- Comment on Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked? 3 days ago:
My server, NAS and all my services have web GUIs. If I need SSH access all I have to do is enable it via web GUI, do what I need to, disable again.
- Comment on Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked? 4 days ago:
Yeah, I guess I’ve never needed to do that. That may change as I’m thinking of moving all my services from UnRaid to ProxMox to leave UnRaid for storage only.
I guess that’ll bring me back here soon enough.
- Comment on Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked? 4 days ago:
Am I missing something? Why would anyone leave SSH open outside the internal network?
All of my services have SSH disabled unless I need to do something, and then I only do it locally, and disable as soon as I’m done.
Note that I don’t have a VPS anywhere.
- Comment on Cloudflare is bad. Youre right. 5 days ago:
Oh, it’s way more than what any dyndns can do.
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
Awesome. I am happier every day I’m in Lemmy and out of Reddit. You guys are flat out amazing. Thank you.
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
So, if I’m running ProxMox off of 2 NVMe drives in RAID, I can just pass through SATA and USB for the UnRaid VM and just NFS my way to happiness, right?
I’m still testing each of my UnRaid containers on ProxMox, and so far they all work fine. With a Ryzen 7 5700G and 64GB ECC RAM, I could give the UnRaid VM just 2 cores and 4GB of RAM, and should be smooth sailing from there, right?
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
I’ll be studying that link you sent me deeply before I start my adventure here.
I didn’t know this rabbit hole was so deep. Love it!
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
Thanks so much.
All this info brought me back to the drawing board.
This led me to start searching for new components, as I’m pretty sure that I will want to build a new rig and just probably donate my current box.
Thank you, I really appreciate it. My bank account, not so much 🤣🤣
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
I’m very inclined to use this method instead.
I would like to ask for some suggestions on the initial process to migrate the data from UnRaid.
Considering that:
- My disk pool is made out of 2 10TB disks, for a total of 20TB
- It also has a 10TB parity disk
- The pool is using just -6TB of the storage
The option I see is:
- Get another 10TB disk
- I can clear the parity drive and copy my data from the pool to that disk for migrating
- Configure the pool disks to RaidZ and once I complete that, use the other 2 disks as parity pool
Or, I bite the bullet, get brand new 10TB disks, 12 to make it Raidz2 and have a storage pool of 40TB (35 usable?). I’m thinking 4 groups of 3 disks each should do the trick. Then use the same method to migrate my data.
With 64GB of ECC RAM, I should have a pretty swift storage IOPS that way.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 1 month ago:
10% of the time, sure.
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
Yeah. I told my wife what I wanted to do, and she actually would rather have me spend the money than risk spending too much time if and when I break something. I’m thinking a minispc Ryzen 9 or a Ryzen 7 venus, set it up with a 4TB NVMe. That should do the trick. It’s a bit over 300 bucks, but will be a bit more future proof. 64GB DDR5, and fire it away.
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
That’s why I built 2 of my boxes, and have them Rsync 2,500 miles away from each other. My brother was nice enough to let me set the backup box in his garage. I too was mistakenly under the impression that parity was enough to keep my data safe. Once I went over some horror stories in the forums, I duplicated my purchase, built an exact replica of my box, and then set it up at my brother’s house.
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
I actually never considered this. And if I’m understanding you correctly, this would render using UnRaid unnecessary.
This is great info. I’m going to fit my current ProxMox test rig with a few disks I have (old small disks I have replaced over the years that still work) and test this option first. This might make this easier.
If this works out, I can still keep the server I set up off-site to mirror my storage, right? Even if that is still UnRaid? I need more coffee.
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
Absolutely. This is why I love Lemmy as a whole, and my wife hates it.
The combined amount of wisdom I’ve found here interacting with so many smart individuals is a serious treasure of knowledge and a powerful drive to keep exploring and learning.
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
You do make a great point. I really am feeling more inclined to spinning up a new rig for ProxMox, and leave my UnRaid to do what it’s good at in it’s bare metal state as it is today.
This self hosting rabbit hole runs scarily deep.
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
Oh, ok. Mainly 2 things:
- Manage all my containers and VMs over ProxMox instead of inside UnRaid directly, effectively leaving UnRaid to be just manage storage only.
- This, from my understanding, will in turn allow me to play with container options other than docker (docker is awesome, I know, but it also has limitations), effectively opening new roads of knowledge to me. UnRaid doesn’t even support Kubernetes or LXC.
While I’m aware that I can even compose dockers in UnRaid if there’s no UnRaid docker template available, it’s not the most user friendly way for managing those containers, in my opinion.
Another reason is that I’m always trying to learn new things, and from my limited experience with ProxMox (I’ve only been playing with it for about a month or so on an old rig), ProxMox is incredibly easy and powerful when it comes to container and VM deployment. The management options seem to be infinite.
Your point is very solid, which is why I’m contemplating segregating UnRaid and ProxMox into 2 separate rigs as opposed to virtualizing UnRaid.
These are hard decisions. Keep just 1 rig and spend way more time and probably migraines configuring this, or just build a new rig for ProxMox and migrate all my containers and VMs to it, which is faster, but will come at a higher monetary price, including power consumption.
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
I do have the advantage of having a mirror of my server 2.5K miles away in my brother’s house. That’s probably why I’m thinking about being so candidly careless.
I appreciate the great advise. But now I’m willing to take one for the team and come back with either am horror story or an epic win.
BRB.
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
Thanks a lot, I’ll update my progress, if my wife chooses to spare my life once I start 🤣
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
Yup. I think I’m going to go the 2 servers way after all, but not before I try doing it in one, because, we’ll, why not? Isn’t that what home labs are about? 🤣🤣🤣
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
And that’s why I chose to ask here. More heads put together come up with better choices. Watching this TechHut video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahOXQM4416Q) and another one from Christian Lempa (www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3pKprTdNqQ) is what led me to think it could be an idea.
I guess it’s the “add another server” to route for me.
Thanks so much.
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
After Ai watched Lempa’s video virtualizing TrueNAS passing through all drives on ProxMox, I started searching to see if anyone had tried the same with UnRaid, and TechHut actually did it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahOXQM4416Q
However, my use case is somewhat different than his, and he’s just a hobbyist like me, so I’m much more comfortable asking in this community where it’s highly likely that someone already crashed and burned before me, lol.
I’m thinking I’ll take the advise of just building a new server for ProxMox, and then use my current UnRaid box exclusively for storage. That should be somewhat safer, right?
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
This is actually good advise. I am running ProxMox on a very old PC (3rd Gen i3 with 8GB of ram), and I really like it, which is why I wanted to move it to my server Box instead.
But now that you mention it, I may be better off keeping my UnRaid box as it is and use is as NAS/Storage exclusively and then build a good box to run everything else from ProxMox.
My wife is going to kill me in my sleep, lol.
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
Yeah, UnRaid does all of that, but from my very basic testing of ProxMox in an old computer, the VM management is much better than in UnRaid. The same goes for VLAN awareness with just 1 nic.
I’m in no way unsatisfied with UnRaid, but I watched a video by Christian Lempa doing something similar, only with TrueNAS instead of UnRaid, which is what got my brain thinking about all these potential options.
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- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 1 month ago:
I tend to replace my drives (if $$$ permits) every 2 to 3 years unless one of them fails before that. And seeing as they are willing to give 2 years of warranty on some of those renewed drives, I’m not really that concerned.
I am, however, buying 2 brand new 20TB drives for parity, which would be my biggest concern. On top of that, I have a mirror of my server in my brother’s house over 2K miles away (beats paying cloud failover, for sure).
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 1 month ago:
I was almost crying while looking for drives to increase the storage space of my current 10TB drives in my UnRaid, because of the price.
You will now be known as “the tears-Minato”.
Thank you so much for this link.
- Comment on Al Jazeera office raided as Israel takes channel off air 1 month ago:
This shit is just insane.
- Comment on Dynamic DNS vs Dedicated VPN IP 1 month ago:
No, it’s inside the network. Once I’m inside my network via the VPN, the proxy server routes to the service I want based on the subdomain instead of using the IP and port as the address.
This can also be useful if, instead of going the VPN route, and you choose to go the CDN tunnel (for example, Cloudflare) way. I actually started with a tunnel via Cloudflare, but after some digging, I don’t trust them anymore. Having a tunnel allows you to close all ports coming into your network, but at the expense of having to trust the tunnel provider, and I don’t trust many companies out there.