Self Hosting 101

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3 days ago

I self hosted my word press site for a long time in on a machine that sat in my lounge room. I ran a series of interconnected containers on my unraid server - using wordpress; nginx, mySQL, and a reverse proxy.

It was such a fantastic thing. While it lasted, and until my website and sys admin skills were overwhelmed by several version mismatches which progressively started to break things.

It was nice to see the HDD activity light beam, and to know that meant someone was on my website.

The biggest thing I am struggling with is storage. As I am using so many different devices, and have a lot of OneDrive storage space - I struggle to access it consistently across my Linux desktop environment and my other devices.

I am only running Bazzite - but I think once I finish all the games I've got installed, I'm just going to bite the bullet and make the jump to Arch, (but i might go to Fedora first) - set up next cloud, and hope for the best.

On your humidity sensors and home assistant - I have set up humidity sensors in each of the bathrooms. When humidity exceeds a certain percentage, a relay behind the switch for the exhaust fan will turn on, and then once humidity settles, it will turn off again.

I have motion sensors in the hallway, that after sunset will turn on the lights in the hallways when movement is detected. When it is "bed time", those lights will be red, so as to not ruin night vision if you get up in the middle of the night.

There's so much cool stuff you can do with these simple automations that A) can make your house more comfortable (I can't remember the last time I used a light switch) and B) really improve your quality of life.

Until something goes wrong in your stack, and then you're despairing.

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@themarkymark81

3 days ago

Until something goes wrong in your stack, and then you're despairing.

That's why I run a cluster and tight backups. I can recover

Cluster Fail over
Offsite restic backup
NAS VM backup

I want to upgrade to 3 MS-A2 but they are much more expensive (about $1350 per box) but a lot more powerful 2.5x the passmark score, 96GB DDR5 vs 32GB DDR4, and would have raid 1 NVME 2TB instead of a single 2TB nvme. It would also allow me to connect them directly to my 10Gbit SFP+ backbone. The power draw a lot higher though.

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@holoz0r76

3 days ago

I have not yet explored the likes of kubernetes, I don't have enough hardware. :D

I have old hardware running my unraid "mainbox", a 10c, 20T 10th gen intel with 128gb of ram, and a lot of spinning rust, and 2 m.2 drives for caching.

The most important data from that then goes to an ancient qnap I have, where it is mirrored two two seperate disks.

Then there's a nightly sync to a 10TB USB attached HDD. If the house is burning down, that's what we grab. It has every photo we've ever taken, every document we've ever considered important.

And then for the most critical stuff, there's an rsync offsite back up.

Because I primarily use my NAS as a store of photo stuff, my next one is likely to be all flash (and will need at least 2.5GB Ethernet) - but I will need to upgrade my router. The house is already wired with short runs of CAT6e, so I just need to upgrade the router, and maybe my switch.

The patch panel should be fine, but that was set up by pros when they did the PoE cameras for me. I am not a homelab "guy" or a sys admin by any means, I just pay enough attention to this stuff.

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4 hours ago

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