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- 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:
This is what I’m doing as well. The nice thing about it is that it supports different sized drives in the same mergerfs mount and with snapraid, you just need to make sure one of your biggest drives is the parity drive. I’ve got 10 drives right now with 78TB usable in the mergerfs mount and two 14TB drives acting as parity. I’ve been able to build it up over the years and add slowly.
- Comment on Any experience of Diode? 2 weeks ago:
It sounds to me that for your specific use case, the tailscale free option would be a better match. You can self host it if you would like, using headscale (involves a little more work though). It’s basically like an orchestrator for wireguard tunnels.
I’m running tailscale on quite a few of my systems. I’ve configured the Grants (like advanced ACL’s) to allow for only specific services available from certain hosts while other hosts can act as exit nodes like a VPN egress. I’ve found it very useful for connecting families networks up so that I can assist with remote troubleshooting help and I’ve used it to reach back into my own network while traveling.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 3 weeks ago:
The article is literally about a mass produced $800 Sodium Ion battery that you can buy right now.
- Comment on Share single service via WireGuard 1 month ago:
Tailscale would probably be easier for this. Install tailscale on the server and configure only that service available in the tailscale dashboard. I’ve used this method for ssh access to family members devices.
- Comment on Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts 2 months ago:
That’s why I also self host the scripts I’ve vetted…
- Comment on Router suggestions for a complete noob 2 months ago:
I know the process. There’s also the option of attaching an ESXi datastore to a Proxmox system and importing it that way. The PCIe passthrough makes it a little more complex but not insurmountable. I’ve built the Proxmox server on another host with 10Gbe ports and am going to rebuild that way. Export the config, modify what I need to, import the sections I need and swap cables.
Once I’ve swapped hardware, I’m putting Proxmox on the current VMware host and I’ll have a backup system just in case of hardware failure.
I’m also doing some other stuff, replacing HAProxy with Caddy, maybe deploy a grafana dashboard so I can start monitoring all 60+ services on my network, and configure my network for IPv6.
- Comment on Router suggestions for a complete noob 2 months ago:
I know there are a lot of recommendations here, but I can provide some insight as someone who has been looking into this heavily for the past several months.
I will start by saying that the GL.iNet Flint 2 running OpenWrt is probably going to be your best option. It meets your price point and concerns. The Flint 3 is an upgrade that just came out that could also be considered, but is currently at $190. I currently have the Flint 2 running at my mom’s house providing her network coverage. It’s a nice all in one device and I believe she’s running a 500Mbps service.
Some of the other responses here mention OPNSense. That’s what I’m running right now as a virtual machine. I’m using TP-Link Omada access points for Wi-Fi coverage. OPNSense or PFSense might be a bit much to start. They are good options, but can get rather advanced quickly and still require a method to provide Wi-Fi. I’d been looking at replacements heavily lately, but decided to stick with OPNSense (I just have to migrate it from running on VMware ESXi to Proxmox now).
- Comment on Chad NATO 3 months ago:
I guess it’s a shitpost because Hawaii is not technically covered by NATO…
- Comment on Can't get DNS to work on web server 5 months ago:
Is your firewall allowing port 443 (https) traffic?