don’t want your server maxing out all day

But don’t you think about that poor server?

It is feeling so bored out and it’s whole life worthless…

Anyone know of something that isn’t Nextcloud Chat?

Do you absolutely need to put ONE tag on it all and say this is it?

Synology is great because of the easy backup. But it is limiting your ideas for your new NAS. Leave it in “backup corner” :)

Play with ZFS, see how much flexibility it really has, and when you got that up, then write your first own smb.conf - and the new NAS is done.

For the host, proxmox. There’s nothing else at the moment that makes more sense.

What the … LOL

Samba makes the same files available via another protocol. Sometimes you prefer a web browser interface, or the nextcloud companion app, and sometimes you prefer the Windows explorer.

Is owncloud or an alternative enough, or do I need something more elaborated like TrueNAS?

I run a Nextcloud for my family and then serve the same folders again via samba to the same users. Don’t need a separate NAS for this, just activate the samba service on the same machine.

Regarding the pirate ship, I don’t know. I haven’t tried that yet.

a version controlled markdown file

There’s a lot of genius in this idea …

Is Proxmox the best system to use for these applications? Would it be easier to just install Debian and Docker and run everything through containers on one OS instead of splitting them all up into LXC or VMs?

Proxmox is (nearly) a class of it’s own. Yes, you need it.

You are not limited to lxc. Just run one or more of these Debians in VM’s inside, and they can docker then as needed.

Don’t forget to use the templates in Proxmox.

Could browse as per normal with abysmal internet speed

Of course. It’s because they had to catch and write down every single byte with a pencil on paper, then decrypt it, understand it, report the funny ones to a boss, who nodded slowly and silently and then they typed it in again on the other side.

/s

They do not visit you. You do not visit them. You visit bad places.

They are prepared for such ideas, and you should assume that they are better than you.

Now you know that the problem is not your DNS.

It is either your routing or firewalling.

I tell it to point docmost.example.com to 192.168.1.80, […] but actually nothing happens. I get a connection timed out error.

I suggest to collect more info about this “nothing”.

ping from your PC on the inside to the name docmost.example.com

ping from your PC on the inside to the number 192.168.1.80

traceroute from your PC on the inside to the name docmost.example.com

traceroute from your PC on the inside to the number 192.168.1.80

Then do the same in the reverse direction: from that docker container to your PC.

Maybe traceroute shows you some stations on the route. Then do the same from this station.

Write down the results thoroughly.

You do not let your k8s control instance look “live” at your git server during the start (or reformation) of the whole cluster. It needs the (repo and) files checked out somewhere locally, and this local “somewhere” must exist at start time.

Later, when your git is alive, you do a regular git pull for keeping it up to date.

chicken and egg situation, since I plan to store my Kubernetes manifests in my git repo

Not really.

K8s would use a “checked-out” visible representation, not the repo database itself.

git is file system based.

Git is also a database.

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This is the way

No. Never would I self-host a search engine.

The crawler would eat up so much more ressources than I am ever willing to spend.

No testing environment in my home lab so far.

But on the other hand, no planned builds either. Just fiddling around til it works.

I am currently planning for new hardware, and then doing it all with build scripts there, as fully automated as possible. The whole setup, from scratch. But for that I need to do some learning first.

So the new hardware is going to be it’s own test environment for a good while, until it turns into production.