Selfhosted
- What do you host for your finances and why!
Inspired by a comment on my last post.
I feel like I never have a solution that allows me to control it while also being automated to such a degree that I don’t have a huge confusing backup if I don’t do finances for days or weeks.
- Your favorite lesser known docker container?
Mine is beaverhabits, just a good habit app that has come out recently.
- Should I bother with raid
I have a 2 bay NAS, and I was planning on using 2x 18tb HDDs in raid 1. I was planning on purchasing 3 of these drives so when one fails I have the replacement. (I am aware that you should purchase at different times to reduce risk of them all failing at the same time)
Then I setup restic.
It makes backups so easy that I am wondering if I should even bother with raid.
Currently I have ~1TB of backups, and with restics snapshots, it won't grow to be that big anyways.
Either way, I will be storing the backups in aws S3. So is it still worth it to use raid? (I also will be storing backups at my parents)
- Selfhost alternative to sharedrop.io?
I make use of sharedrop.io to quickly share files between phones and computers on my LAN. Does anyone know of a self-hosted alternative, preferably containerised with Docker?
- TrueNAS boot drive dead? - help
Hi all!
I'm stuck with a problem on my TrueNAS server. I suspect the boot drive is dead, but I don't know how to proceed to get it back up and running.
My setup: -HP Compaq 8000 Elite SFF with 8gig ddr3 -TrueNAS-24.04.2.5 -Boot drive: Kingston SSD A400 240GB -Data drives: 2 X Kingston SSD DC600M 960GB
Today i noticed that my Truenas was offline and I couldn't ssh into it. The nic lights were not showing any activity. After a few boot attempts I hooked it to a monitor and keyboard. No boot media detected. Then checked in the bios and the data drives are detected but not the 240GB boot drive. So I pull the boot drive out and hook it to my Thinkpad running mxLinux. I have a USB to SATA cable, that I've used before to troubleshoot drives. The drive is not showing up in Disk Manager. Output of dmesg -w when hooking up the drive is following:
[ 2369.520731] usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd [ 2369.547175] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2109, idProduct=0711, bcdDevice= 1.44 [ 2369.547194] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 2369.547202] usb 2-1: Product: VLI Product String [ 2369.547208] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: VLI manufacture String [ 2369.547213] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 000000123AFF [ 2369.549433] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [ 2369.549917] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: Quirks match for vid 2109 pid 0711: 2000000 [ 2369.550061] scsi host3: usb-storage 2-1:1.0
Been trying to resolve this for hours with google but to no avail. Any help appreciated where to go from here.Thanks 🙏
- Will any UPS work with Linux?
I'm down to the last few hours of discounts here. I need to get my NAS and my server onto a UPS months ago. Both are already set to come back on when power restores. We rarely have power outages and have solar panels (no house battery though), so a full outage is even rarer.
I understand that a UPS can send a shutdown signal when power is lost. Is this a universal standard or format for this? If so, what keywords should i use when searching for compatible products? My father told me to look for one with Ethernet ports. I just want to make sure everything is compatible. I go out of town occasionally and as well as preventing data loss, I also need everything to go down and come back up automatically so I don't have to call a friend, neighbor, or my spouse to go mess with stuff for me.
UPS brands considered (alternatives welcome): APC, Cyberpower
Systems protected, Synology DS 220+ & BeeLink MiniPC running Debian 12.
--- Also, for anyone who has helped me out previously in my self-hosted journey, thank you! Things are going great and I have a few useful docker images running various services and have set up grub btrfs snapshots to easily fix my screwups. This community has been incredibly helpful.
- Synology with hybrid RAID alternative?
I currently have an HP micro server gen 8 with Xpenology with hybrid raid, which works fairly well, but I’m 2 major versions behind. I’m quite happy with it, but I-d like to have an easier upgrade process, and more options. My main use is NAS and a couple of apps. I’d like to have more flexibility, to easily have an arr suite, etc.
Considerdering the hassle of safely upgrading xpenology because of the hybrid raid (4+4+2+2 Gb HDDs) I-d like a setup which I can easily upgrade and modify.
What are my options here? What RAID options are there that easily and efficiently these these disks?
I don-t have the spare money right now to replace the 2Gb disks. Planned in the future
- Modernizing my cluster
Hi!
I have an old gaming pc (i5 9400F) with 16gb of ram that has been acting as my home server with proxmox. It’s quite large and quite loud and very overpowered for what I’m using it for (home assistant, Minecraft server, some lxc containers) and a mini pc (amd 5800h with 16gb ram).
I want to sell my gaming pc, place the HDD into a NAS (and samba share my plex library), and potentially grab a low powered N100 minipc to pick up the lxc containers and home assistant that my gaming pc is running.
New to self hosting so wondering if this is a good setup or if there are any glaring issues you see with this. What is your setup?
- Homelab hardware recommendations
Right now I’m running a Late 2012 Mac mini (8 x Intel Core i7-3615QM CPU @ 2.30GHz) with a 1TB SSD, a 4TB external USB HDD and 16GB of RAM. It runs Proxmox with a VM running Docker (just Transmission-OpenVPN container right now), a VM for a Debian VS Code tunnel and a LXC container for Plex. I also have a Pi3B running PiHole and I use a Mac Studio for my personal computer (500GB SSD). I’m using Fios for a 1G fiber connection, a TP-Link router (AX3000) and two daisy chained 1G unmanaged switches (unfortunate scenario due to my small apartment), 1 near my entertainment center (Apple TV, PS5 etc) and another near my desk and the Mini/Studio/Pi.
I’d like to build a NAS server which I could also use for these services. Priorities being 4K transcoding capabilities and the drives for a NAS. I would also like to set up a WireGuard VPN so I can use VNC to my Mac and access home services when I’m away, this is done with the TP-Link router right now.
Right now I can’t decide between Intel or AMD for the CPU, buying something new to future proof or buying some older used office hardware and what I should prioritize (server or network)?
Currently I’ve got a mix of personal data in Dropbox and iCloud Drive, I’ll likely consolidate it all to iCloud and eventually my NAS and have the NAS data backed up to Backblaze as well. I’d also like to backup my Studio to multiple Time Machine backups and have them in multiple locations. My media is currently all on the external drive and nothing is super valuable, just TV and movies (removes eye patch).
I’m trying to learn Linux and some web development (mostly three.js) so I’ll setup a new VM, probably NixOS moving forward, specifically for coding and web dev learning.
I’m looking for hardware recommendations for the Proxmox NAS server and also networking equipment? I’d like to move off the TP-Link hardware and use something open source. Also any suggestions for other services to run or considerations I may have missed. For example monitoring, how to manage users/access like SSH, where to buy hardware, home services you can’t live without etc.
I know this is a broad AF post, but figured it could trigger some good discussions!
- github.com Release v3.6.0 · rommapp/romm
This Thanksgiving, we’re serving up 3.6.0, a hearty update stuffed with QOL improvements and bug fixes that will leave you as satisfied as a plate full of turkey with all the trimmings. 🦃 Progress,...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/34005993
> RomM (ROM Manager) allows you to scan, enrich, and browse your game collection with a clean and responsive interface. With support for multiple platforms, various naming schemes, and custom tags, RomM is a must-have for anyone who plays on emulators.
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Release v3.6.0 · rommapp/romm
> This Thanksgiving, we’re serving up 3.6.0, a hearty update stuffed with QOL improvements and bug fixes that will leave you as satisfied as a plate full of turkey with all the trimmings. 🦃
> Track your game progress, completions, and star ratings under the new "Personal" tab, and use them to filter your games by "backlogged", "finished" or "100% completed". We've also moved your (and shared) notes under the same tab.
> - Display and filter games by age rating (requires a quick sync) > - Use filename without tags or extension when matching unmatched game > - Skip hashing games on desktop platforms for faster scans > - Improved memory usage during 7zip decompression > - New env variable UPLOAD_TIMEOUT allows for larger file uploads > - Edit file exclusions for config.yml from the UI
- Creating an Ubuntu 24.04 host on ZFS RAID 10github.com GitHub - Reddimes/ubuntu-zfsraid10: The purpose of this repository is to automatically setup a booting zfs ubuntu host. It create 2 zfs raid 10 pools, one for /boot and one for /.
The purpose of this repository is to automatically setup a booting zfs ubuntu host. It create 2 zfs raid 10 pools, one for /boot and one for /. - Reddimes/ubuntu-zfsraid10
Hello there Selfhosted community!
This is an announcement of the completion of a project I've been working on. A Script for installing Ubuntu 24.04 on a ZFS RAID 10. Now, I'd like to describe why I choose to develop this and how I'd like for other people to have access to it as well. Let us start with the hardware.
Now, I am using an old host. My host in particular was originally a BCDR device that was based on a ZFS raidz implementation. Since it was designed for ZFS, it doesn't even have a RAID card, it only has an HBA anyways. So for redundancy, ZFS is a good way to go. Now, even though this was a backup appliance, it did not have root on ZFS. Instead, it had a separate harddrive for the operating system and three individual disks for the zpool. This was not my goal.
So I did a little research and testing. I looked at two particular guides (Debian/Ubuntu). Now, I performed those steps a dozens of times because I kept messing up the little things. And to eliminate the human error(that's me) I decided to just go ahead and script the whole thing.
The Github Repository I linked contains all the code needed to setup a generic ubuntu-server host using a ZFS RAID 10.
Instructions for starting the script are easy. Boot up a live cd(https://ubuntu.com/download/server). Hit CTRL+ALT+F2 to go into the shell. Run the following command:
bash <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Reddimes/ubuntu-zfsraid10/refs/heads/main/tools/install.sh)
This command does clone the repository, changes directory into it, and runs the entrypoint(sudo ./init.sh). Hopefully, this should be easy to customize to meet your needs.
More Engineering details are on the Github.
- How to access host when using gluetun in docker?
I'm having issue making a container running in the network of gluetun to access the host.
In theory there's a variable for this:
FIREWALL_OUTBOUND_SUBNETS
https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/connect-a-lan-device-to-gluetun.md#access-your-lan-through-gluetun When I include172.16.0.0/12
I can ping the ip assigned withhost-gateway
but I can't curl anything.The command just stays like this until it timesout ```
curl -vvv 172.17.0.1
- Trying 172.17.0.1:80... ```
I also tried adding
100.64.0.0/10
to connect to tailscale but is the same response, can ping and timedout curl.Any other request works properly connected via the VPN configured in gluetun
Do you guys have any idea what I might be missing?
- MedAssist Updategithub.com GitHub - njic/medassist at develop
Medication Assistant. Contribute to njic/medassist development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hey guys,
its me again with medication assistant :D For anyone who never heard of MedAssist, it is selfhosted web application that tracks medication usage. It's main feature is to send e-mail remainder when it's time to reorder medication. I have received a great feedback and you all guys made me even more excited to spend time on this project. Honestly, I can't believe how many people even visited github page, thank you a lot! Some of you broke demo page which helped me find weak spots, so thx about that as well <3. I received some feature requests and bug issues via reddit, lemmy and github. I spent some time working on them and now I want to announce an update (still develop branch):
- Possible to have Usage = 0
- Filtered invalid characters on inputs
- Reduced CPU/Memory usage by improving backend (hopefully no more crashes)
- Rebuilt Upcoming Schedules (more simple and lightweight)
- Added more styling to e-mail notifications
Demo is up and running again, feel free to try it or brake it. Fingers crossed there are not many bugs left. If it turns out it's stable enough, I'll merge develop to main branch and create latest release. Planning to add few more features in the next release. BREAKING CHANGE: Make sure you backup your database file (medication.db) and modify docker-compose Database path was changed (to achieve uniform path no matter what installation method was chosen), so make sure to update docker-compose with: volumes: - /path/to/database/directory:/app/medassist
Change to: volumes: - /path/to/database/directory:/app/database
Also change version tag to develop or v0.15.0.develop if you are using docker. Link directly to develop branch with new update: https://github.com/njic/medassist/tree/develop All suggestions are welcome and feel free to star the project on github <3 R---
- Offline Game Library?
What are y'all using for your offline game libraries? I ended up getting Resident Evil on GoG and started thinking about how I can host these on a NAS. Maybe something Dockerized?
Jellyfin for music and video
Immich for images
Audiobookshelf for Audiobooks
??? for Gaming?
- Set up raidZ-1 with 3 drives and existing data
I currently have a two disk-zfs mirror which has been filling up recently. So I decided to buy anothet drive, but when I started thinking about it, I was unsure on how to actually make it usable. The issue is that I have ~11Tb on the existing pool (2 12 Tb drives (a,b)) and no spare drives of that size to copy over all my data to while creating the new 3-drive pool with the same drives and the additional new drive (c).
I saw there is a way to create a "broken" pool with just two drives (a,b), while keeping the data on the remaining drive (c), then copying the data over to the pool and 'reparing' it afterwards with the new drive (c).
As I only have 11 Tb of data which would theoretically fit one disk, would I be able to:
- keep the old pool
- initialize the new pool with just one drive and copy over the data
- detach one drive from the old pool, add it to the new pool (if possible, would there allready be parity data generated on this drive at that point? Wold the parity be generated in a way that would allow me to lose the other drive in the pool and recover the data from the remaining pool (drive) alone?)
- destroy old pool, add last drive to new pool
I would be able to back up my important data, but don't have enogh space to also back up my media library which I'd like to not have to rebuild.
alternatively: anyone in Berlin wanna loan me a 12 Tb drive?
- I prefer trilium but need an offline first option for mobile notetaking...
Any options?
Thanks for all the alternatives. I’m also asking if there’s anyway to edit trillium on my phone when my server is offline… guess not?
- Lissen: Audiobookshelf client (Clean Audiobookshelf Player)github.com GitHub - GrakovNe/lissen-android: Minimalistic Android client app for Audiobookshelf
Minimalistic Android client app for Audiobookshelf - GrakovNe/lissen-android
Edit: exchanged fdroid url with github
- redlib (reddit) & Huginngithub.com GitHub - redlib-org/redlib: Private front-end for Reddit
Private front-end for Reddit . Contribute to redlib-org/redlib development by creating an account on GitHub.
I have no idea why it's taken me so long, but I've "discovered" #Redlib as a way to view #Reddit without all of the cruft. #selfhosted of course. https://www.macklin.co/redlib-reddit/
You can use Redlib to create an #RSS feed, which you can process in #Huginn to create a new version of the feed that includes the comments as well as the original post. Just right for using in your favourite rss news reader. https://www.macklin.co/redlib-via-huginn/
- axel.leroy.sh My setup for using Pi-hole outside my home
I present an alternative way to use Pi-hole outside the home network by leveraging Encrypted DNS (aka DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS) instead of the usual VPN.
- [SliceOfLife] Doing updates today
My little nuc server. Had to change some bios configs today so I busted out the old LCD and since it was there already, did a package update for the hell of it.
- selfh.st This Week in Self-Hosted (29 November 2024)
Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and content for the week ending Friday, November 29, 2024
- PdfDing - Selfhosted PDF Manager and Viewergithub.com GitHub - mrmn2/PdfDing: Selfhosted PDF manager and viewer offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices.
Selfhosted PDF manager and viewer offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. - mrmn2/PdfDing
Hi /c/selfhosted,
I want to introduce PdfDing to this community. PdfDing is a PDF manager and viewer that you can host yourself. It offers a seamless user experience on multiple devices. It's designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker. The repo can be found here. Features include:
- Seamless browser based PDF viewing on multiple devices
- Dark Mode, colored themes and custom theme colors
- Inverted color mode for reading PDFs
- Remembers current position - continue where you stopped reading
- SSO support via OIDC
- Share PDFs with an external audience via a link or a QR Code
- Shared PDFs can be password protected and access can be controlled with a maximum number of views and an expiration date
- Automated and encrypted backups to S3 compatible storage
I would be very happy if you wold give PdfDing a try. If you like it, be sure to leave a star :)
- [Question] Any Good Black Friday Deals?
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/48643729
> Has anyone seen any particularly good deals for NAS's, storage or memory, mini computers, things like that, for this Black Friday / Cyber Monday season?
- Looking for 1 or multiple HBAs to use with a chassis.
Hello, guys! As the title suggests, I am looking for an HBA. The chassis I am planning to get is an Inwin IW-RS216-07 with 8x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA bays and 2x 4x 7mm U.2 SSD bays.
I am not sure which HBA (or perhaps multiple HBAs) would be suitable to utilize the full capabilities of the backplanes. Just to clarify, I am talking about an HBA and NOT a RAID card, as I will be using the system with ZFS.
Any suggestions or directions to which HBA to get would be greatly appreciated!
- connect to vps
Hello
Trying to see if there is an easier way or if is secure.
I have a VPS. I want to use for web services (docker) only accessible internal and not exposed to interent e.g. ZorAxy/ngnix manager.
I don't want to use Tailscale as the VPS is headscale and feel not secure.
Don't want to use VPN as I don't want my device to connect to it, forward my traffic from VPS IP. Also I use android a lot and that uses a commerical VPN.
So I thought ssh tunnel, make tun device on vps, and make docker compose port to the tun ip. Can then use a proxy on android to connect to my internal web servers. As for Linux, I have to make another tunnel and proxy my browser - problem is that everything from the browser goes through my vps, so like a VPN.
Just wondered if there was an easier solution and is this way secure?
Thanks
- Opnsense blocking ads for iOS?
Hey all, I can't seem to block ads in Jetpack Joyride on iOS. In using Unbound on Opnsense and I thought I had pretty good coverage - unless iOS uses a different manner to get ads on there?
- Power usage
I am smarting up my home with lots of ZigBee thingies and decided to add a ZigBee smart monitor to my selfhost setup.
Its a desktop box with a core i7 9th gen, 48gb ram, no monitor.
I used to have 4xSSD 4TB + 2xHDD 6TB. Three RAID1 for a total of 4+4+6=14Tbs.
Power was sitting at 50W.
I restructured my storage: 1 RAID5 with the 4 SSDs (12tb) and removed the 2 HDDs.
Power went down to 38W!
I am amazed.
In the future will run just 1 hdd for storing backups and keep it spinned down 99% of the time.
PS: the above wattage is during transcoding, so with high CPU and disk usage....
- Migrating emails from Gmail to new email serverlemmy.ml Migrating emails from Gmail to new email server - Lemmy
I came across mention of IMAPSync and Larch as tools to move emails out of Gmail to a new email account. Does anyone have any experience using these? I have a family’s worth of email gmail accounts all of which are running out of space and will need to be moved to a new email provider. They would of...
I came across mention of IMAPSync and Larch as tools to move emails out of Gmail to a new email account. Does anyone have any experience using these?
I have a family’s worth of email gmail accounts all of which are running out of space and will need to be moved to a new email provider. They would of course all like to keep their historical sent and recieved emails.
- port opening with ipv6 host exposure
I moved, and now my new router has no ipv4. I can expose the host with ipv6. After opening a port and exposing the host, the host is fully exposed and all ports are open. It'ss weird. Vodafone calls ut host exposure, I can select a specific port and all ports are open.
How do you guys corcumvent that issue? Is this the infamous cgnat problem or is this why many people use a cloudflare tunnel? I just want to reach my nextcloud and immich with a normal domain.
Edit: I called my provider and now I've got an ipv4 address with port forwarding
- self hosted excel like/note taking with columns
Hello
For a long time I have used google drive sheets in order to keep track of gym progress because it has columns and I can dedicate columns, colors, rows, etc for specific gym movements each week so I can keep track of progress, progressive overload correctly, and have a history of progress. ( Example: days | weight | push | bench::weight*sets/reps | etc)
I have been using libreofffice (and syncthing to back up to home server so I can later view on pc) to do this lately but the mobile app is ... Hard to use for me. I also use obsidian to take general notes and lists but it is missing the dedicated columns I would like.
Is there other self hosted similar options for what I'm looking for specifically for mobile to PC backup.
- XPipe - A connection hub for all your servers: Status update for the v13 release
I'm proud to share a major development status update of XPipe, a new connection hub that allows you to access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop. It works on top of your installed command-line programs and does not require any setup on your remote systems. XPipe integrates with your tools such as your favourite text/code editors, terminals, shells, command-line tools and more.
Here is how it looks like if you haven't seen it before:
!Hub
VMs
- There is now support for KVM/QEMU virtual machines that can be accessed via the libvirt CLI tools
virsh
. This includes support for other driver URLs as well aside from KVM and QEMU. This integration is available starting from the homelab plan and can be used for free for two weeks after this release using the new release preview - You can now override a VM IP if you're using an advanced networking setup where the default IP detection is not suitable. For example, if you are using a firewall like opnsense on your hypervisor
- Fix remote VM SSH connections not being able to use the keys and identities from the local system
- There is now a new restart button for containers and VMs
File browser
- There is now a new option in the context menu of a tab to pin it, allowing for having a split view with two different file systems
- There is now the option to dock terminals in the file browser (this is only available on Windows for now). You can disable this in the settings if you don't like it
- The previous system history tab is now always shown
- You can now change the default download location for the move to downloads button
!Pin
!Dock
Other
- The application style has been reworked
- Improve license requirement handling for systems. You can now add all systems without a license and also search for available subconnections. Only establishing the actual connection in a terminal or in the file browser will show any license requirement notice. This allows you to check whether all systems and installed tools are correctly recognized before considering purchasing a license.
- Rework Windows msi installer to support both per-user and system-wide installations. The installer will also now respect the properties
ALLUSERS
. This makes it possible to install XPipe with tools such as intune - Add download context menu action in file browser as an alternative to dragging files to the download box
- Fix proxmox detection not working when not using the PVE distro and not logging in as root
- The settings menu now shows a restart button when a setting has been changed that requires a restart to apply
- There is now an intro to scripts to provide some more information before using scripts
- Add ability to enable agent forwarding when using the SSH-Agent for identities
- Closing a terminal tab/window while the session is loading will now cancel the loading process in XPipe as well
- A newly opened terminal will now regain focus after any password prompt was entered in xpipe
- Add warning message when the incompatible coreutils homebrew package is in the PATH on macOS
- The .rpm releases are now signed
Shell sessions
Many improvements have been implemented for the reusability of shell sessions running in the background. Whenever you access a system or a parent system, XPipe will connect to it just as before but keep this session open in the background for some time. It does so under the assumption that you will typically perform multiple actions shortly afterward. This will improve the speed of many actions and also results in less authentication prompts when you are using something like 2FA.
Security updates
There's now a new mechanism in place for checking for security updates separately from the normal update check. This is important going forward, to be able to act quickly when any security patch is published. The goal is that all users have the possibility to get notified even if they don't follow announcements on the GitHub repo or on Discord. You can also disable this functionality in the settings if you want.
Fixes
- Fix Proxmox detection not working when not logging in as root
- Fix tunnels not closing properly when having to be closed forcefully
- Fix vmware integration failing when files other than .vmx were in the VM directories
- Fix Tabby not launching properly on Windows
- Fix SSH and docker issues with home assistant systems
- Fix git readme not showing connections in nested children categories
- Fix Windows Terminal Preview and Canary not being recognized
A note on the open-source model
Since it has come up a few times, in addition to the note in the git repository, I would like to clarify that XPipe is not fully FOSS software. The core that you can find on GitHub is Apache 2.0 licensed, but the distribution you download ships with closed-source extensions. There's also a licensing system in place as I am trying to make a living out of this. I understand that this is a deal-breaker for some, so I wanted to give a heads-up.
Outlook
If this project sounds interesting to you, you can check it out on GitHub or visit the Website for more information.
Enjoy!
- There is now support for KVM/QEMU virtual machines that can be accessed via the libvirt CLI tools
- My server won't turn on 🫤
I decided to clean out my CPU fan as it was clogged, when I assembled everything again it won't turn on 🙁
It's an old desktop PC. There are no lights glowing on the motherboard at all, though there is none specifically labelled "power". Just CPU, RAM, BOOT. None of these light up, not even a flash when it starts.
I have reseated the RAM, CPU, power cables. Removed the GPU to check.
The cord leading in to the PSU works but I don't have a way to test the PSU itself or the out cables, but I have reseated them at each end.
This PC was working fine before. But with no lights on the motherboard I suspect either the mobo or PSU?
Mobo is asrock x570 PSU is silverstone 650w strider gold S series
Any help appreciated!
Edit: I made a new post asking for hardware recommendations.
Edit 2: I managed to get a light on the motherboard, going to buy some more thermal paste and keep tinkering to see if I can get it started!
Edit 3: I never got that light to go again. In the end the comments on the other post convinced me that I had all that I needed for what I wanted (no upgrade needed), so I changed tack to seeing how to fix it. I had suspicions about the power connection still, so I bought a cheap PSU and tested it, no change. Then I bought a new motherboard (also a pretty cheap one, the cheapest that had what I needed and was also in a local store) and in the end that was the issue. Everything is up and running again now! Thanks for all the help everyone, you can now settle your bets.
- Expanding Synology
Hey folks, happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating today!
I have a Synology DS1821+ that I have completely filled. I'm looking for expanding, but I don't really want to completely replace the Synology yet.
Does anyone know if there is a way to expand the number of drives? I've heard murmers that I can use a DAS, but nothing for sure. Wondering if anyone has attempted this before. Thanks!
- New storage setup, comments?
Hi!
I used to have three raid1:
2 x 4Tb Ssd dedicated to store personal data
2 x 6Tb HDD dedicated to store "iso's", the eye patched ones.
2 x 4Tb ssd for backup.
Ext4 everywhere.
I run this setup for years, maybe even 20 years (with many different disks and sizes over time).
I decided that was time to be more efficient.
I removed the two HDD, saving quite a lot of power, and switched the four sdd to RAID5, Then put BTRFS on top of that. Please note, I am not using btrfs raid feature, but Linux mdadm software raid (which I have been using rock solid for years) with btrfs on top as if on a single drive.
I choose MD not only for my past very positive experience, but specially because I love how easy is to recover and restore from many issues.
I choose not to try zfs because I don't feel comfortable in using out of kernel drivers and I dislike how zfs seems to be RAM hungry.
What do you guys think?
- Suggest me an upgrade for a server and streaming
You may have seen my post trying to troubleshoot my server. It seems either the motherboard or CPU is dead, so hey, why not do an upgrade?
I use this server for a lot. It's used for a Jellyfin server, sometimes multiple streams at once. I think I'd like hardware transcoding, I want it to be really good at streaming Jellyfin, and preferably multiple streams at once without issue.
It's also going to be used for hosting Zusam, a kind of private forum for friends/family - a key thing is that this will also be transcoding videos and photos to downscale them (uses FFmpeg).
I also host Photoprism, which will be generating thumbnails and indexing photos.
In addition to this, I also host a bunch of other stuff, I think the key ones are Nextcloud AIO and PaperlessNGX (which does OCR) as these would be more demanding. Then another 10 or so services that aren't too demanding and have low usage so are unlikely to be an issue outside of making sure I have enough RAM.
I use it as a backup server as well. It receives borg backups from other devices and backs up itself to a backup HDD, and does cloud backups, but has a fast LAN connection and decent internet speed (300Mbps) and this is scheduled overnight so probably doesn't affect anything.
I also use it for playing games with the kids! Normally Stardew Valley but sometimes more demanding games.
Many of the hosted services have family members also using them. I want to make sure I can do things like the Photoprism indexing and Zusam video downscaling while not affecting the experience using Jellyfin or other services. It's all good if this happens by limiting cores for transcoding. It would be nice to be able to use it for more demanding gaming as well, but I understand if it's a bit hard to keep everything going nicely with a demanding game running that doesn't limit its multithreading.
Possibly related for compatibility purposes:
- all my hard drives are 3.5" HDD or 2.5" SSD SATA connections. I have 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs.
- I also have a Radeon rx5700xt graphics card. Would be nice to be able to keep using this.
- I'm currently running a full desktop environment (Linux Mint - Cinnamon) on it, for the purposes of playing the games. So needs to work well with Linux and also play nicely with wireless Xbone controllers.
- Case is Mid sized. Specifically this one.
And the current CPU is an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, in case you want to tell me what I have is fine and I don't need an upgrade 🥲
What are some good options for an upgrade?
Edit: Thanks for the suggestions. Lots of people showing me how I wasn't taking full advantage of the hardware I had, so I ended up going back to trouble shooting and in the end it was the motherboard that was the issue. I replaced that and it's now up and running again! Now to go back to all the info about hardware transcoding in Jellyfin that people have linked for me. Thanks for everything!
- PinchFlat: Youtube download manager and library, integrates with Jellyfin and Kodigithub.com GitHub - kieraneglin/pinchflat: Your next YouTube media manager
Your next YouTube media manager. Contribute to kieraneglin/pinchflat development by creating an account on GitHub.
Seems like a fairly mature and well maintained project. Can be fired up in DevContainer for hacking.
- Self hosting LLMs on a remote VPS
Hi all, I'd like to hear some suggestions on self hosting LLMs on a remote server, and accessing said LLM via a client app or a convenient website. Either hear about your setups or products you got good impression on.
I've hosted Ollama before but I don't think it's intented for remote use. On the other hand I'm not really an expert and maybe there's other things to do like add-ons.
Thanks in advance!
- Anyone tried Co-Op Cloud?
I've been searching for a replacement for my crufty Yunohost install, something that runs docker, "app" install, and preferably SSO and multiuser. I was deciding between CasaOS and Cosmos Cloud when I stumbled on Co-Op Cloud. I can't find anything on it online anywhere except for their site. Anyone tried it or have any opinions?