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  • I didn’t know anything about docker when I set up my NC years ago, so I ran it as a snap on bare metal. Man, it’s gotten so much better! It used to really suck. Like, simple file transfers just didn’t work half the time, so I’d be retrying the same thing over and over… A few years ago, I literally migrated it from bare metal to a VM, but kept the exact same install. I have so much crap on it now, I think I’ll never bother switching it out to docker, just because of the inconvenience. I know the snap version can just run using a local hostname, you just have to set it in trusted domains setting. Might be the same in the docker image?












  • I have immich running in a VM in proxmox… There’s ML? What does it do? I have internet facing stuff behind a reverse proxy, but I use two different subnets for different kinds of traffic, no issues. My 192.168.0.0/24 network does not everything, but I move files around Plex and immich and stuff on a separate 192.168.3.0/24 network. I imagine you could do the same thing without too much trouble.



  • I did the hackiest, lamest thing back in the day… I had my client write the current date and time to a file on the share every two minutes as a Cron job… Kept it working for months! I saw it on a forum somewhere, tried it, and… Shocked Pikachu face I don’t know if I ever disabled that Cron job! Haha!




  • phanto@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldPros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab?
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    10 months ago

    I have tried a couple of Proxmox clusters, one with overkill specs and one with little Mini PCs. Proxmox does eat up a fair amount of memory, but I have used it with Ceph for live migrations. Its really useful to me to be able to power off a machine, work on it, then bring it back up, and have no interruptions in my services. That said, my Mini PCs always seemed to be hurting for RAM. So that’s my pros and cons.



  • There’s a series of Lemmy posts called the Linux upskill challenge that goes step by step through setting up and using Linux. I tried self hosting and jumping straight in too, and it sucked.

    What worked for me:

    1. Start using open source versions of stuff, like switching from Chrome to Firefox, Office to Libre Office.
    2. Set up Virtual Box, and practice running server apps on Linux on virtual machines, until you’ve done a few Linux VMs and gotten used to the interfaces and commands.
    3. Dual boot a laptop or desktop, one by one getting your daily use apps working in Linux.
    4. Distro hop a bit. I never thought I’d land on Fedora, but here I am.
    5. Get used to running and configuring servers from the command line.
    6. Host some stuff with VMs and get used to the networking and bridging and stuff.
    7. Containers!

    I’m still in the middle of 6+7. Not super comfy with Docker quite yet, but getting there. I really do love having my stuff self-hosted though. Well worth the effort.