arcayne

@arcayne@lemmy.today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technitium DNS v14 is released with support for clustering⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried out Pi-hole many years ago, found it a bit too dumbed down and limited for my taste. I’ve been running Technitium for 5-ish years in my homelab, it’s been rock solid and very pleasant work with. I’ve even deployed it at work for a few projects as well. Been waiting for the clustering feature for a while now, super stoked to see this release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every single time I think of restructuring my homelab storage. What do you use for storage engines and how does it benefit you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d recommend ZFS for most home server/NAS scenarios. Gives you everything you need, and nothing you don’t.

  Stuff like Ceph is just as hungry as it is powerful. The performance sweet spot for Ceph barely begins at 5 dedicated nodes (with at least a dozen drives each, ideally). I could never recommend it for home use unless you want to run it in a lab for the sake of learning.

  Source: I’ve designed/built/deployed several 1PB+ Ceph clusters over the last ~5yrs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone bought from Save My Server before?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they’re fine. TechMikeNY usually has better deals though, at least in my experience. Have bought from them several times both for work and homelab, no complaints.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried them all. CachyOS is the best by a mile, IMHO. Been daily driving on my RTX 4080 rig (and my Lenovo laptop) for almost 2yrs. Haven’t found a game I can’t run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d recommend setting your sights on the 3-2-1 rule. 3 copies of your data, 2 different mediums, 1 off-site. Hetzner Storage Box is a good cheap offsite option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich mobile app sync V2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah serverpartdeals is legit. Between work and home, I think I’ve tested & deployed 150+ drives from them over the last 3yrs. No duds, no failures, no complaints. Great customer service on the corp side for big orders, too. 10/10 would recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Move over, bud. That’s my hill to die on, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ansible sounds interesting⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d recommend using OpenTofu (Terraform) for initial provisioning of VMs and then use Ansible for post-provisioning config & management. That way you’re letting both tools play to their strengths.

  registry.terraform.io/providers/bpg/…/docs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you document your Homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you mean Netbox?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Setting Up a Self-Hosted GitHub runner for CI/CD⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, yeah, thats why I’m saying if the action isn’t available directly from Forgejo, just write out the full action URL like the example in my last comment and pull it directly from GitHub. Most/all of the actions you’re pulling from Forgejo are originally forked from GitHub anyway. ¯\(ツ)/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Setting Up a Self-Hosted GitHub runner for CI/CD⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With both Gitea and Forgejo, sometimes you need to hardcode the action URL, like:

  https://github.com/actions/setup-java@v4