Probably worth storing the key in another place as well, like keepass on your phone or just print it out on paper and store it.

I wouldn’t be exposing any management consoles to the internet either way, too much risk with something that has docker socket access.

Komodo is the best portainer alt I’ve found, I read through the Arcane info but it doesnt seem as good. Komodos editor also works great.

My favorite is ‘fast and lightweight’ followed by ‘RAM required >500MB’ for a some kind of basic server.

If you want automatic updates over major versions most images will have the :latest tag for that.

It doesnt actually bypass the firewall.

When you tell docker to expose a port on 0.0.0.0 its just doing what you ask of it.

Its a docker compose deployment so should just work on any system with docker installed. Copy the docker compose file and env file if it has one, and run ‘docker compose up -d’ in that directory.

It can collect analytics from multiple places.

It does but will be really out of date.

Do you have it set to filter out ones with low seeder count?

Also do you mean sonarr/radarr? I didn’t know Jellyfin could do searching.

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I do local backups to another drive, and online encrypted backups to cloud storage (I use backblaze B2)

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The cheapest way I can think of is a used PCIe HBA card and some SATA power extension cables. Probably $50 or so to connect 8 drives this way.

If you’re set on USB you can often get 4 bay enclosures for around $100 or so, that would the way I’d do it. The downside of single USB adapters is the sheer amount of wires and power supplies you’ll have.

I set up Plex/Jellyfin specifically to get away from having to manage media manually, it tracks watch states, gets subtitles, transcodes for me when I’m traveling, and does all of that for family too.

MPV is neat but its just a standard media player app like VLC, not really anywhere near the same concept as Jellyfin.

Oh I see what you mean yeah, I’ve never used NFS before with it.

Yeah it sounds nice but too much time investment for me.

I can install PBS client on any system but it requires manual setup and scheduling which I don’t want to do. When used with Proxmox that’s all handled for me.

Also I don’t think Proxmox cares about storage either, I just use ZFS which is completely standard under the hood.

No backup utility like PBS though, thats why I haven’t switched.

Intel AMT also works for out of band management on consumer hardware.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a quality brand PSU go out on me. Software RAID like MD or ZFS works fine on basically any hardware, and I wouldn’t use hardware RAID these days anyways.

I used to worry about that stuff and use enterprise hardware, but its just so expensive for decent performance, and so power hungry.

Like try and match even a budget i3-12100 or similar for single thread performance (needed for game servers mostly) and you really can’t with used enterprise gear. Plus that i3 has an iGPU that can handle a ton of transcoding tasks, and ML for stuff like immich search or frigate object detection. And it uses about 10w or less most of the time.

Yeah media is a good use case for it, and doesnt really need cache either.