old, stupid
not so much the variant but the tooling you’ll use…
ie, ive been usin docker+portainer
my fav setup is kodi, emby, minecraft… all the arrs’ running in containers on mint no problem. i suspect any docker compatible variant would work, but mint is groovy.
kinda smells like truenas with its datasets
i spose…
my anecdote;
ive been runnin drives like this for 30 years. ive literally never had a cold storage drive go bad out of the case… mostly because their hourly use rate is kept so incredibly low. even back in the day of very unreliable drives…
they even retain their data better than modern ssds
3 methods for me…
Dudes got 1.5 billion. theyre good
yes my world will burn when they crack into my jellyfin instance and magically break out of its docker container and then what? goo nowhere on its vlan?
literally thousands of self-hosted jellyfin/emby instances and the support forums are just chocked full of people getting hacked via it! so many!
oh wait, no there arent
oh noes! im so ddead!
eh, maybe. for me it was opening a port and adding a dns record. took me all of 4 minutes
im kinda lucky in that my isp uses ‘sticky’ ips so while its not static, ive had the same ip for 5 years
friends don’t let friends use plex.
its paywalling yourself
im a firm believer in task appropriate stuff… 24/7 server apps should be on a dedicated server box… network storage should only perform storage tasks. i wouldnt use a primary workstation also as server cuz i want to do crazy shit on my workstation. i wouldnt ever want to interfere with my ‘production’ stuff on the server.
ive been quite happy running a headless server and various nas boxes for storage redundancy… my home related i.t. tasks are very minimal now that everything is solidly automated.
oh you sweet summer child
i feel this… i donate time to senior citizens, and its mostly mint upgrades from windows as they do not want to have to update their windows machines.
its very easy. they know many of their users are not experts.
ive been through many of these upgrades and have a dozen or so machines runnin mint… upgrading has never gone sideways on me. its one of the benefits of mint. their upgrade processes are very well tested.
nope, i’ve not had any issues with ports, but im using deluge.
the container network management handles most of that nonsense, the vpn is treated as a native internet connection
I prefer containers…
theres one available called gluetun that can run proton vpn…
then I have a deluge (torrent client) running in another container that specifies gluetun as it’s network source.
this way if the VPN drops I don’t bleed my actual ip
these containers are pre-built and public so config is fairly minimal
bless your heart. i bet youve learned a lot!
i found containers helpful… it was simple to spin up a VPN container (gluetun), and push through any services/access/other containers (like pihole) through that. i really appreciated this because if the vpn goes down i’m not suddenly leaking my ip.
what kinda storage ya runnin?
if its a spinning rust drive, it could be failing. ive seen behavior like this after a big data change (like an OS install) on a drive thats on its way out. its spinning its wheels re-reading data.
prolly not the issue if its an SSD
Bb would be ~300$/month for 50tb