lazynooblet

I recently decommissioned my old poweredge T620. Beast of a thing, 5U heavy af. It had 8x10T drives and was the primary media server.

Now that it is replaced I bought 2x Synology RS822+ and filled them with the old disks. Using SHR2. They are mixed brands bought at different times so I’ve made sure each NAS has a mix of disks.

Lowest is 33k hours, highest is 83k.

Isn’t your use case exactly what Ceph is for?

In 2010 I self hosted a Xen hypervisor and used it for everything I could. It was fun!

I had a drive failure in my main raid 5 array so bought a new disk. When it came to swap it out, I pulled the wrong disk.

It was hardware raid using an Adaptec card and the card threw the raid out and refused to bring it together again. I couldn’t afford recovery. I remember I just sat there, dumb founded, in disbelief. I went through all the stages of grief.

I was in the middle of a migration from OVH to Hetzner and it occurred at a time where I had yet to reconfigure remote backups.

I lost all my photos of our first child. Luckily some of them were digitised from developed physical media which we still had. But a lot was lost.

This was my lesson.

I now have veeam, proxmox backup server, backuppc and Borg. Backups are hosted in 2 online locations and a separate physical server elsewhere in the house.

Backups are super, SUPER important. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve logged into backuppc to restore a file or folder because I did a silly. And it’s always reassuring how easy it is to restore.

https://demo.scrypted.app/ is the new kid on the block. Intuitive interface, easy to configure, not free, great system.

With the user id being salted it’s going to be different every time. This means it’ll be difficult if not impossible to monitor voting trends or abuse.

Also how would you use the password unless it was stored in the clear. If it’s based on a pre-salted tuple, how does one handle password changes?

I have my dream domain. It was being squatted for a similar amount. I offered £100 and it was declined, I offered £250 and they replied to tell me the domain is easily worth the £2K, well sort after etc. I told them that this is my surname, and I’m not a corporation with unlimited funds and they can take the offer or leave it. 15 minutes later the offer was accepted. I was so happy. Still am chuffed about it.

I tried to get a squatted .UK domain through this process. Nominet are the authority for these domains. After acknowledging the request to both parties, I am then asked to pay £100 to assign a mediator. I guess this puts off frivolous requests, but it put me off going further.

It’s been a while since a power cut affected my services, is this why?

I remember having to troubleshoot mysql corruption following abrupt power loss, is this no longer a thing?

Does jellyfish not transcode on the fly?

docker compose up

Can someone explain the benefits of LXD without the opinionated crap?

My dude. Even 4K video is ~50mbps, you don’t need to worry about this as much as you do.

How is that annoying and how else would you expect that to function?

If the data is local doesn’t it still stream over http?

I expect there are instances running on old laptops in someone’s basement. Once the novelty wears off they will get forgotten by admins and die. Power costs, admin overhead, will put some off continuing to host as time goes on. But it’s like a hydra, more will pop up and life continues on. I’m lucky that I work in IT and have equipment hosted at the DC for little cost, so self hosting my Lemmy access is cool in a geeky kind of way.

Aw man. ICQ. I miss those times.

Monitoring is the key. I use Zabbix, but essentially you want to gather metrics and report on issues.

Once things are set up and working, even with 10s of VMs and applications, it’s quite reliable. The biggest things that catch you out are updates breaking functionality, updates requiring additional manual steps, running out of disk space or expired certificates.

I find I get a spurt of energy to recreate or implement a new system every few months but things just tick over in the meantime.

To take your analogy, it could be someone hosts a collection of material in your yard and invites all the pedos to use your yard to see and share other material.

There are mini pcs running atom or celeron with impressive specs and Gbit capability that use <15w

I think it’s set somewhat sensitive as it can be triggered by visiting the home page, tapping sign in, and signing in… then being rate limited for a few minutes.

Federation connections are by domain name, so … it is a big deal