So today after almost a year of learning what self hosting and what a nas and raid configuration was, I was to get a used hp prodesk 600 g6 mini and install zimaos on it. Zimaos really made things a lot simpler than I thought it was going to be. I was easily able to install portainer and immich and it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be.

I’ve actually made a goal now to use this for me to get used to it and since I already have a list of what I would like to self hosting for my parents as well as for myself, I’m going to take this as an opportunity to try to set everything up so I’m comfortable with it and when I’m ready to buy a nas for my parents and set it up for them, it won’t be hard. I will also learn how to do remote access and how to do it safely and maybe even try out different nas os to see which one I’m comfortable/like more.

Anyway I just wanted to say that I’m happy to be deep diving and this and can’t wait to learn and host more!!

      • InputZero@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        My advice as someone who’s server is so large backups aren’t feasible at my price point. Ensure that things you care a lot about, photos, family videos, tax information, things that can’t be replaced have a proper 3-2-1 backup solution and test it periodically. Nothing worse that putting all that effort into a backup then not being able to recover.

        I do not recommend backing up media, like movies, TV shows, audiobooks, and music. Use a 2-1. Have two copies of the data with one offline. I have over 20Tb of high-res media and it would cost more than it’s worth to me to backup that stuff. So I don’t. I can just redownload The Lord of the Rings, I can’t redownload the video my parents took of me in a childhood school play.

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    I’ve found a listing for a bunsh of these for 57€. Looking into them, I saw that there is a non mini, sff, that is waaaaay better for a homelab. Still small, but impressively expandable, 4 dimm slots, 4 pcie slots (low profile i7 ), one of them x16, internal space for 2 3.5 drives plus an ODD tray, where you can mount a 2.5 hdd or ssd, a bajillion usb…

  • Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    16 hours ago

    I am in the process of getting homelabbed up as well, I have been running piholes for years but I have gotten deeper into doing my stuff recently. My ISP is finally running fibre to my place this week and I had a game plan to get a lot of things setup so that I could do a switch over to my own firewall the day or two before the fibre was installed. I have a pi 5 with 1gb ram running openwrt, the plan was to do the switch over to it the day before the fibre was installed so I listed out all the things that would need to be changed, and on what days I would do it. My plan kept getting more compact as I am excited to do the actual switch, I have been crash testing things across my LAN but all the stuff I had planned on working on until Wednesday got comprised into this weekend so that I could do the important switch over and crash testing Monday and Tuesday and some fun stuff on Wednesday for the fibre to be installed on Thursday.

    Talking about parents and setting things up for them I plan on showing my father the things I can do and try and convince him to join me use my services for the small price of off site backup.

  • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    Welcome aboard. You’re going to feel so fulfilled and accomplished when you got all your things hosted on your own. It’s such a peaceful and safe feeling. I have a tiny dell optiplex that runs Debian and it’s been a host for all of my services. Navidrome, audiobookshelf, jellyfin, pihole, own DNS with unbound… Etc. Even built my own android app for music/audiobooks.

    Then got me a domain from cloudflare for $10 a year and now I can access my stuff anywhere I got. My son and wife are both loving it.

    • Confining@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      This is the goal, it gives me digital peace of mind and control and can’t wait to learn more. Thank you for some ideas

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    Welcome to the club, bro. Pleasure to meet your acquaintance. Sounds like you’ve done your homework. Better than how I started. I just dove in and whacked my head against a wall until something worked. First real Linux server I ever stood up online got taken down in short order. So I went back and did some learning, and took note of what others did/do. Now I’m no pro at it by far. Lots of very knowledgeable people in here. Stick around, pay it forward. good group to hang out with.

    With the niceties out of the way, let’s get right down to the the real issues: What are your thoughts on AI? /s

    • Confining@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      Thank you, I didn’t want to break things so I made sure to do some research but I was finally able to pull the trigger and it will definitely pay off.

      Now down to business, I actually like Ai when used correctly and privately. I see it as a tool for specific jobs but not made to be shoved down our throats every single chance companies get

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        I actually like Ai when used correctly and privately. I see it as a tool for specific jobs but not made to be shoved down our throats every single chance companies get

        I would concur: ‘When used correctly’.

        You’ll get a mixed reactive crew here. Probably 70% pro/30% con with the 30% quite vocal that they shadow the 70% at times. Pay no attention to the grumps or their down votes. LOL

        • Awelo_Arrekinte@tuiter.rocks
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          3 hours ago

          @irmadlad @Confining
          For you to be able to use it correctly and privately, it has to be create, develop and train with everything the want, legal or not, correctly or not … so yes, keep using it, but there’s no way that shit could be correct, ever!!!

  • YeahToast@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    20 hours ago

    Good luck with immich, I constantly break mine somehow. Congratulations on the breaking ground on the large rabbit warren.

  • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    20 hours ago

    You’ve done your part to make the internet a little bit more distributed like it was always meant to be. Good work!

    • Schlemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      ZimaOS is the native OS for the Zimaboard. It’s evolved from casaos and gives beginners a friendly start with an app store like experience for containers.