yup. I was using my old desktop as a server. Thankfully though, it has 32GB RAM and a 8 core CPU.
Cant. My nas is weak and cant run unraid. Raid5 and Raid6 is what I can achieve.
Most of my storage is media - movies and series. Immich, Nextcloud and personal files take little less than 300GB. I do backups weekly to NAS storage, monthly to storage SSD in my PC and to an external HDD. I am looking into way to somehow be able to backup to a rpi3 that I have installed at my father’s place. This might cover my 3-2-1 needs, just need to figure out that 1.
There’s a fork that builds out additional features, mostly around library management: https://github.com/crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated
Nice.
Hi selfhosters 👋
After the feedback I received from self-hosters here and elsewhere, I focused this update on things that matter specifically when you run everything on your own infrastructure.
This update adds:
But more importantly for this community:
Several people mentioned the need to work with private repos and internal Git instances without relying on external services. You can now point Ideon to your own server and use your own token. No third-party dependency required.
Installation is still designed to stay simple. One curl command:
No repo cloning. No manual secret generation. No external SaaS. Everything runs in two containers: app and database.
GitHub: https://github.com/3xpyth0n/ideon
Docs: https://www.theideon.com/docs
As always, I’m open to feedback. If you self-host it and hit friction anywhere, I want to know.
EDIT 5: Well damn, I forgot to update this with my final choice, and it’s been suiting me well so far. I ended up dropping a little bit more and picked up the Bosgame P4 for roughly $285. It’s been amazing so far. Running Proxmox on it with 3 VMs: HA, Jellyfin, and Pihole. All of them work great and it’s been nothing but stable since I got everything running. I never knew how much a leap it was for my Pihole, it used to take 5-10 minutes to update gravity on the Pi Zero W, now it’s less than 10 seconds! Jellyfin is rock solid, and I have my existing NAS SMBed to Proxmox so it can be accessed from any VM. HA is a joy as well, and I was able to restore my settings from the previous install on the Pi4. All around great choice, ad I still have headoom for a number of other VMs if needed. I’ve been dabbling into the *arr Suite on the Proxmox VE Helper Scripts and whileI’m not in high need of sailing too much, it’s neat to have so many options at my disposal.
Thanks to all who assisted me in this setup!
EDIT 4: I almost gave up on finding the “holy grail” for my use-case. Right price, right specs, etc., and while it’s not perfect, I think I found a solid balance for all. Despite most of the reviews being for a free product, they were well written enough to goad me to purchase. I ended up with the Morefine M9S N305 Mini PC. I grabbed the variant that was still 16GB DDR5, but skimped out of the m.2 size at 256 vs 512. I don’t think I’ll need 512GB for my application. I also went with an older but more powerful Alder Lake i3 n305 vs the flooded market of Twin Lake n150 procs. I would like to think the extra headroom and core count will prove useful with running 3+ VMs. In the meantime, I’ve been slowly tinkering with a VM of Proxmox (VMception?) so see how i performs. I’ve not gotten far with it yet :P
EDIT 3: And Amazon decided to wait until the last minute to cancel my order as it was OOS. Would’ve been nice if they told me sooner. The unit is now also $60 more than before. GREAT.
EDIT 2: I’ve chosen the Beelink EQ14. It had the best “last-gen” specs, lowest price, and better hardware (BT 5.2 vs Pulcro’s 4.2, as well as Wifi6 vs Wifi5). I also ruled out the Morefine because all of its reviews were paid, not very reassuring imho.
EDIT: Holy shit, was not expecting so much support for my inquiry. Thank you all for the bevy of ideas and solutions. I think I’m still gonna go for the Intel 12th Gen+ NUC style, although some of your setups seriously made me quite jelly. Maybe I’ll get there one of these days. I’ll update this when I finally lock down my purchase :)
Hey all, lurker for a bit, but just joined because I’ve started my journey of self hosting the simple stuff (or at least I hope it’s simple). For the past couple years I’ve been using a RPi Zero W for PiHole, and more recently go into Jellyfin and Home Assistant, using an RPi4 and an RPi3+ respectively. I’ve also got a hand-me-down Synology ds214j NAS with 2x8TB in RAID0 RAID1, which is about half full atm. I’m not expecting to expand that storage anytime soon, so I’ve pivoted to an attempt at combining the 3 Pis above into one NUC/SFF/etc device with a roughly similar power draw. Also looking at re-jumping back into 3D printing using OctoPrint.
I’ve looked briefly at jumping to a Pi5, but that led me down the rabbit hole with Jeff Geerling’s article/video on Pi vs. NUC. I’ve continued to putter around looking at NUCs in the ~$200 range. Hoping to stick with MinisForum, GMKTek, or Beelink if possible, but only because… it’s all I know. I’d like to also tinker deeper with Linux flavors, as I’m a noob at best with it but want to at least have some growing knowledge, as I’ve primarily been a Windows gamer and use Apple at the office almost exclusively. I’d like to try staying with AMD as I’ve slowly moved over from the “dark side” (don’t hurt me) that is Intel and Nvidia.
Last nugget is that I’ve never tinkered with Docker, as it seems that may be the best route to host all these apps on one contiguous installation. I’ve new-ish to VMs too, so anything “Baby’s First VM” would be nice.
I know I made a giant pile of wants/needs, so if there’s no magical unicorn, I’m cool with other ideas. Thanks in advance, and I’m really keen on seeing what options I have.
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I ran my own blog for many years but recently I suspect my server got hacked, and after reinstalling I want to do things a little differently.
I’d like to move away from PHP and I don’t really need a dynamic CMS anyhow.
So far I’ve been using PicoCMS which serves content from markdown pages with a little header. I got quite good at it, wrote my own theme and a few plugins. The templating language is Twig so something similar would be a boon for me.
Writing content in markdown is my most important requirement, or rather reusing the existing pages with as little massaging as possible. Here is one example:
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Title: Create WiFi Hotspot with NetworkManager
date: 24.11.2022
Tags: archlinux,android
template: post
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# Make sure required depenencies are installed
blablablablablablablabla
I really want a tag cloud, which used to be my only sorting mechanism apart from date. Most generators, at first glance, offer a tags page. Honestly I have no idea if I’d have to template the cloud myself but tag functionality seems to be common, I guess?
What I don’t want is any sort of web UI or even builtin server functionality or other bells and whistles for the user. I prefer to ssh into the server and do things on the CLI.
Now my most important constraint is that I want to use what’s available in (or as a) Debian repositories. After a quick search around it boils down to:
Searching for similar topics I found this and this. I read all the comments.
TIA
edit: Lots of people mention Hugo. Why would I choose that over, say, Jekyll or Pelican?
Personally I feel drawn more towards Python than Go or Rust, and a Twig-like (e.g. Jinja) templating language. If that’s idiotic, please let me know why.
Also please remember I’m not running a github (or other similar VCS) page but have a dedicated VPS running Debian Stable. Deployment or containerization are of no interest to me.
edit2: For now I have settled on Pelican - both frontmatter and templating feel very familiar to me. I might even be able to port my PicoCMS theme over. I have not tried to install plugins via pip yet.
Thanks to all!
In the end I chose Pelican soon after this and have been using it happily ever since.