Dr. Jenkem

That scan only scans your hard drive once an hour.

To check rss feeds for new podcast episodes, you need to go to the settings of each podcast and schedule it to scan the podcast feed.

Can’t decide if I just want to renew everything for as long as possible to delay the price increase or just move to a different registrar.

In a way yes, when I post a comment, no one else will be able to see it while the site is down. But it eventually will go through when the site is up. And because I’m browsing from a different instance, I can see all the content even if lemmy.world is offline.

The problem is it’s the largest and is being attacked. Use a different instance and you’ll have no problem accessing this community. If it weren’t for people posting about the outages, I’d never even know.

Nginx-proxy-manager makes dealing with certs easier imo. You can either have it setup to double proxy (point to the nginx you already have running) or replace the existing nginx (you’ll have to copy the config into nginx-proxy-manager ui).

Yeah holy fuck, that’s dystopian.

Have you looked online?

Yeah I’m not a big fan of NAS’s. I agree they’re a bit of a ripoff, you’re paying for convenience. The only reason to go with a NAS imo is if you’re unable and unwilling to learn to use linux. Raspi4 are pretty cheap, 4gb model is like $55 iirc. If you’re paying more you’re probably getting ripped off. It’s definitely going to be lower power usage than a NUC or mini PC. But maybe you can find a cheap used one.

But since you’re only hosting photos, pretty much anything should work.

I use Ansible to deploy the docker-compose files around and do the typical operations (pull, restart, up/down). I store the secrets in my Ansible vault and it injects the secrets directly into the compose file when deploying the compose file to the host.

Oh yeah, good point.

Wireguard is kind of the latest and greatest self-hosted VPN. Pretty easy to setup too.

I’ve been using this one for a few years now, it’s got 1 extra drive slot for a total of 5. It supports USB 3.2 so I get pretty good speeds on it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ND3JNZ6

Yeah, I should get rid of it though. The OS hard drive is failing and the CPU is slow as shit. Just using it as a NAS at this point.

Another +1 for Readarr.

You’re essentially paying for an extra server though.

Regarding the NAS; I totally agree. Pretty much the same reason I didn’t go with one. Maybe it makes sense for folks who aren’t comfortable with the Linux command line, but that’s really the only time I would recommend a NAS over a regular computer of some sort.

As for speeds over USB, I’ve been using an external USB drive bay for a few years now and haven’t had any issues, and I even stream 4k Blu-ray remuxes over the LAN from it. But it’s worth mentioning that my enclosure supports USB 3.2 and wasn’t exactly cheap. Link to the one I’m using is below: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07ND3JNZ6

Oh and regarding the taxing part: yeah, pihole is going to be pretty lightweight (it’s designed for raspi after all). Sonarr and radarr aren’t too bad either, but probably a bit heavier than pihole. You can certainly expect a lot of reading and writing from whatever your *arrs will use for downloading (nzb or torrent client). And I’m assuming you’ll be using Plex or jellyfin, these will probably be heavier than any of the rest, again you’ll have a lot of disk I/o activity, but even more so, if you end up needing to transcode your media. Plex/jellyfin by default does this on the fly and will be massively CPU intensive. UNLESS you’re able to setup hardware transcoding. You’ll want to check Plex/jellyfin’s support for hardware transcoding and make sure you get a CPU that is supported by either or plan to get a supported GPU. In the case of Plex I think you’ll need the Plex pass or whatever. Otherwise, you can just make sure your media and whatever device you’re streaming to support direct playback, but I wouldn’t rely too heavily on that, especially if you’re sharing access with friends/family.

Make sure you have a plan for hard drive space. Mini computers tend to not have as many bays for hard drives. And since you’re doing the media server thing, you’ll want to be able to easily drop in more drives at a later time. You could do this with like an external USB hdd enclosure with multiple bays, but if you go with a desktop form factor that wouldn’t necessarily be required.

Speaking of hard drives, checkout MergerFS, you can use this to pool multiple hard drives into a single mountpoint so you don’t have to worry about moving files around to maximize disk usage. Also, the nice thing about mergerfs opposed to say RAID is all of the drives can be different manufacturers and sizes.

Also, I would personally recommend going with proxmox as your baremetal install and then spin up VM’s for the various things you plan to run.

And if you think you might get more into the *arrs (like readarr or lidarr), it’s probably worth your time to setup prowlarr.

And if you haven’t yet, I recommend learning how to use Docker and docker-compose. There’s a bit of a learning curve to start, but you’ll save a lot of time and headaches in the long run. Linux-server has some good docs and images to get you started: https://docs.linuxserver.io/

And don’t expose your *arrs to the internet, if you plan to share your Plex/jellyfin, then setup Overseer to support requests for new content.

Hopefully this all helps. Feel free to ask me any follow up questions as I have a similar setup (albeit with a bit more going on).

Yeah I only hopped on it a few days ago. Grabbed it because I started a new job with a long commute and wanted something better than Plex for audiobooks. Decided to migrate my podcasts too while I was at it and love it so far.

Audiobookshelf supports podcasts and multiple users.

Good to know, thanks!