shadowtofu

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did the same last week (and am still in the process of setting up more services for my new server). I have a few VMs (running Fedora CoreOS, with podman preinstalled), and I use ansible to push my quadlets, podman secrets, and static configuration files. Persistent data volumes get mounted using virtiofs from the host system, and the VMs are not supposed to contain any state themselves. The VMs are also provisioned using using ansible.

  Do you use ansible to automatically restart changed containers after pushing your changes? So far, I just trigger a systemctl daemon-reload, but trigger restarts manually (which I guess is fine for development).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, absolutely. Right now, SSDs are probably superior in comparison to HDDs in every category except for price (and long-term data integrity when switched off). But when you consider large parity raids and take into account the cost of electricity, even the price difference might only be small, making SSDs even more attractive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. Let’s say I add 6 SSDs, 2TB each, for a total of 600€. In a RAID6 configuration, that gives me 8TB of storage. Compare that to a classical NAS with 2×8 TB HDDs for a total of 350€.

  The HDDs will draw around 4W idle each, 8W in total. Assuming 0.3€/kWh, over a span of 5 years, that is approximately 100€. The power consumption of the SSDs will be negligible.

  So, just in terms of storage, the SSD solution is around 33% more expensive over 5 years. If you include the cost of the NAS itself, the price increment is even less noticeable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Traefik with Socket Activation via Podman Quadlets⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very helpful. I was just looking at this the other day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ten reasons to avoid Amazon | Ethical Consumer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Building nuclear power plants is not a science problem, though, it’s an engineering problem. Just because we can harness energy by breaking up nuclear bonds does not mean that we can do so economically, given the constraints under which we have to operate power plants.

  And OP never disputed the science anyways?