Thanks for the update! Highly appreciated you picked up development after tempo died.

Space Engineers?

Euh depending what you get. Don’t be fooled by their “ZFS” offering. It is a very very outdated and forked form of ZFS. I converted to TrueNAS scale with my qnap recently. Worked great. Although some things you have to do a rather advanced for more casual users.

Not sure if it is still active but here it is http://lemmythrunflevho5ox2fi4omlpjbvtr2hpokzx7ugimgqf5j4hq.b32.i2p/

I might look in to it and spin up my own instance soon TM.

I don’t quite remember as it has been some years since i looked in to it and made the choice.

Anyway it doesn’t look to be the case anymore or never was and i didn’t look well enough. Still I am happy with XCP-NG.

The reason I went with XCP-NG and Xen Orchestra from source initially, Is due to to proxmox not being entirely free. Both as in beer and in freedom.

It is and their is already at least one instance.

Not with ZFS and their for TrueNAS. A hardware raid card is not suitable at all. Even if you set it to jbod mode. It shut actually be flashed to IT mode if that is possible with that card.

Xeon X5670 😆

A few things you have to learn in general are Virtualization docker and some network management. You can do this on very old stuff. And when you know the basics you can make a better guess to what hardware you need for the things you want.

I love and hate unifi at the same time. Their single web management for all devices is super convenient but some advanced things are a nono. It is expensive for what it is.

I mean I still do from time to time. Breaking changes require some attention and migrations. But overall its good and not a load of daily maintance.

Love the post haha! Nothing much here things run rather stable and with low maintance right now.

Urbackup, works great on windows and Linux. For Linux servers I still use Borg how ever but desktop is good with it.

I don’t use unraid I use XCP-ng instead.

Yes that’s why I suggested a alternative. Although wireguard is simpler to setup initially. Using proxy’s and exposing your service directly is simpler for the end user. Both are not difficult to do.

Its not hard to setup a proxy and use a full SSL cert. A little bit more complex but much simpler for the rest of the family.

Wireguard is also very simple to setup. This would allow you to share other services you host in the future in a secure way as well.

Installing jellyfin is as easy as setting up any self hosted thing though… Just use docker compose if you want simplicity.

Perhaps urbackup? She might not be the most pretty girl but works like s charm. It works on window, Linux and I do believe Mac as well.

I know you can run openwrt as a VM on a NAS. Might be a good solution for you. Theoreticaly you can use virtual interfaces and bridges on the NAS to use a single fysical network interface. But a second card will be the most easy option