What do they call a Debian?

You’re welcome! I’m out rn, I’ll share the files when I get home.

Thanks!!

I found it to be pretty easy to get gluetun & qbittorrent set up. I’m running it all in docker, be happy to share my compose files if you’d like.

Also late, but here is mine.

From the bottom up:

• An old pc I built forever ago for live streaming when I used to run my youtube channel. It’s an i7 something or other with 32gb ram and a 32 tb raid (4x8).
• m1 Mac mini
• HP elitedesk 800 G3 mini
• two HP elitedesk 800 G3 sff
• Deku
• dumb network switch
• rpi 4 8gb

And here’s what’s running:

• Bottom pc is the nas
• Mac running jellyfin
• the hps running:
  • navidrome
  • aonsuku (pretty navidrome frontend)
  • audiobookshelf
  • qbittorrent
  • gluetun
  • vikunja
  • radicale
  • Joplin
  • matrix
  • local backup for critical data
  • some other things I’m forgetting
• The rpi is my wireguard tunnel to ssh in on the rare occasion I need remote ssh access.

What are the specs on that pepsi box? How’s it handle the load???

Welcome to the club! Gates are open. Come on in!!

FWIW, if you want to learn how to use the command line, docker, and how to manage and secure your services, I’d recommend installing Ubuntu server or Fedora server on the NucBox; and then install docker and learn how to get your services stood up using the docker cli.

This is the route I went specifically because I wanted to learn more about Linux, and how to manage a server and services.

The tools being offered as suggestions (unraid, truenas, yunohost) are abstraction layers meant to make hosting easier. And to be clear, there is nothing at all wrong with these tools or using them. What they’ll do is give you a GUI to manage your system and services, making using the command line mostly unnecessary. Again, nothing at all wrong with that. Just depends on what you want.

Regarding exposing the services, it’s good to be cautious. I went with Pangolin, which is like a self hosted version of tailscale/cloudflare tunnels (I’m simplifying a bit).

Pangolin allows you to access your services over a VPN tunnel, and, to set your desired level of authorization needed to access that service. I really like it and have found it to be very reliable.

Also, FWIW, I’m not in IT or an expert. Just a person who wanted to learn about Linux and self hosting to take back control from big tech.

10/10 for not using g the arr naming scheme

Hahahaha. Best comment.

Hahaha. No apology needed. And honestly, all fair points.

find and rename/perl-rename/prename (depending on your distro), are two of my favorite cli tools. I generally find both well designed and easy to use. For me, they are indispensable.

sed is great. I use it all the time, and I love it, but sometimes, I hate it.

You’re welcome!

Racknerd always has good deals. You get get a vps for as low as $11/year.

Here’s a link (no affiliation with them. Been using them since 2020 when I grabbed one of these deals)

https://www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday/

(Don’t worry that it says black Friday. You should still be able to get the deal)

Heads up, ersatzTV is no longer being developed.

I love forgejo!

edit: jfc, typos. I hate typing on phone keyboards.

Secondary to that is that getting bluray to work on a computer is a pain. It’s not impossible, but its not natively supported on macos or Linux (I dont know about windows, haven’t used it in ages now).

Whereas if you do use the alternative methods, you don’t have to fight with trying to get the os you’re using to work with bluray

This is the way.

I got a test box set up with nixos and a config that runs all of my services. I wanted to test the declarative rebuild promise of it, so I:

1. Filled the services with my some of my backed up data (a copy of the data, not the actual backup)
2. Ran it for a few days using some of the services
3. Backed up the data of the nixos test server, as well as the nixos config
4. Reinstalled nixos on the test box, brought in the config, and rebuilt it.

And it worked!!! All serviced came back with the data, all configuration was correct.

I’m going to keep testing, and depending on how that goes I may switch my prod server and nas to nixos.

I also recommend forgejo over gitea. I’m running forgejo and I love it.

For your reverse proxy, look into pangolin. It combines proxy with wireguard tunneling and auth. So you can set up access controls on a service by service level. It’s great. I use it and love it. No affiliation. Just really happy with how it works.

I agree with the other folks recommending Pangolin on a VPS for this. It’s great. It combines a reverse proxy and a wireguard tunnel together for you. You don’t have to open any ports on your home network, and Pangolin allows you to set access levels for each individual service.

So you can have some fully open for those who aren’t going to mess with VPNs and tunneling, and you can put other things behind Pangolin auth to add additional protection.