I prefer using NextDNS, so that it works wherever I am

Does it not need to transcode then if it runs on cheap hardware?

My suggestion is either to use one device, that has a decent enough GPU for transcoding, to do everything or a separate NAS drive purely for storage and a separate PC with that GPU capability for jellyfin/plex + Immich. Home assistant and arr aren’t that resource hungry. Also go for Usenet instead of torrents. Good luck and happy sailing.

Yep, tell her to call you over to set it up and phone you anytime 24/7 if it breaks

Completely agree, and I think it’s fair for them to make it a paid feature. It’s kind of like using wireguard yourself to create a whole network vs Tailscale.

Pretty sure someone would have already done it. Anything with a screen and some sort of computer behind it is low hanging fruit for doom. It’s shit like running it on a calculator using potatoes that raises the bar!

Ahh! The files are in the router!l

Queue jumping up and down like a monkey trying to rip apart my router in order to reach a website

Dude it sounds you’re over skilled for the job. You just need to read some guides and you probably know already how networking works, very basic linux commands, linux folder structures, and then the concept of docker - primarily how it maps networking & folders from your “host machine” to the “docker container”, and how it loads services using a docker compose file. Especially for nextcloud, domain dns management and dynamic dns etc would be very helpful knowledge.

Also, just a suggestion, chatgpt etc are super useful. You tell them what you want and it spits out custom instructions for your setup, and you’re able to counter question at any point. If it does make mistakes, which it will, it’s a learning opportunity for you to troubleshoot and figure out how everything works. All the best and if you have a question feel free to message me.

If you’re planning on upgrading the CPU, GPU and RAM, have you considered keeping the old stuff and running 2 systems, splitting the load so to say? Could do those random services and Nextcloud, photoprism (unsolicited suggestion - try Immich too!), the OCR thing, etc on the old one and keep the new one for gaming, your forum that needs transcoding, and Jellyfin?

Edit - Afterthought: your old system could then be headless too

No, sorry I haven’t tried it with Syncthing. Mainly using it for immich, seafile, a matrix server, some arr apps and a status monitor called dashdot. Would be useful for syncthing though, never thought of trying it - I’ll give it a shot over the weekend and let you know how it goes!

Thanks, it took some prompts but it worked in the end! I used a few subdomains of an actual domain I use for email…

I used chatgpt to create the exact steps, commands and configurations I needed for my setup and achieved this the seemingly cheatful way. I used nginx and certbot. Worked like a charm. Congrats!

Out of those I’ve tried hetzner and milesweb and I thought hetzner was better in terms of ping times for me and easy to use

Why would it take 2 to 3 hrs? Download time of container images?

Servarica is well priced, and Hetzner is what I ended up using after trying many

I’ve been dabbling in self hosting recently and found that chatgpt can help you setup a lot if you don’t get annoyed and keep fixing your prompts. It even writes out your docker compose files for you and you can ask it questions on what things mean and what’s linked to each other. If you do try it out though, avoid giving personal info like passwords in the chat.

How are you measuring your speeds? I think cloudflare speed tests were more accurate for me then ookla, but in the end downloading a large file over usenet gives me the best picture

Edit- and that made me realise my ssd was a bottleneck, replacing that helped me go from 500-600 to about 900-950 on my gigabit connection

If we pull in a team effort we can all collectively try 1 to 255 for the last octet and download all the money from this man’s bank account and split it between us what say?

So do your router/switches/access points/cabling etc support 2000? What about the devices’ lan ports? Curious as to to how 2000 works for home network infrastructure

Done! Look forwarding to using this instance as my main Lemmy account