Freeman

I pay 95 for 400/12 and 1.2 TB. Count your blessings.

Possibly. What i was hearing seemed more like some weird DB/code gremlin thing. But I dunno. Literally never run it.

Also i think the deployment type was invovled. Maybe it was a docker specific thing??

I’ve been seeing them everywhere.

Those self service terminal at autozone? Pi’s.

Multiple threads people have mentioned random crashing, DB issues and nonsense/useless log outputs that don’t help find a cause and just require you to restore from backup.

No way I’d consider it for business use.

After the stability issues I’ve heard. I wouldn’t even consider nextcloud for my family at this point.

I have a router, switch and older access point preconfigured and ready to just plug in.

I have some basic documentation and a short list of folks to call, along with admin creds should anything need untangling.

But mostly it’s a rip and replace network. Ditch plex and get cable.

Google workspace is basically just gmail. You can pay someone to migrate it or abandon.

My job pays for a visual studio dev kit that gets windows server keys. Though I may move to samba 4 And just drop wsus entirely

Straight up wsus with a nightly script to keep it from fucking itself up.

Plex, nzb/sonarr/lidarr/radar/, homeassistant, AD, vpn, teamspeak, lemmy, a blog, wifi controller, cert authority, Pi-hole, mail relay, all data/files etc, backups of email from workspace, zabbix for monitoring, miniflux, windows update cache, quicken server

Probably more.

That’s probably my biggest complain tbh.

My entire library can fit on my phone. No reason to stream. If my home internet has problems I can’t listen to music? Or if I’m out in the sticks (often enough) I suddenly find out what’s actually cached/downloaded and what isn’t solely because it’ll skip entire albums or just fail to start songs etc.

Ive been increasingly considering Jellyfin. I really only use plex for OTA tv/libraries on roku’s 99% of the time

Rarely do I use mobile or others. But plexamp is like 99% mobile too.

Im betting lunch they are losing market to jellyfin and the free finamp.

Plexamp has been kinda stagnant for a while and can be finicky on lossy connections (ie: cell service)

Oooh. Thanks for sharing this one.

Yeah. My goal was to service x number of users for x budget (~50/month) and not solicit donations. My guess was that would be 50-100 at most. But like I said, then the xss stuff happened and I just kinda balked.

50% of the reason I built the instance was to be in control of uptime and updates since others were sporadically down anyhow. I’m more a “take my destiny into my own hands type”

That said, the nice thing of this setup is that you can run your own instance and be just as involved.

It sounds like you were better setup than most that had no idea and had to figure out scale out strategies.

Seems the culture is still for folks to gravitate to massive instances, some of which aren’t equipped to handle the load (this includes kbin too)

As an aside, I did similar and have a couple vps that are like….50 bucks a month but with the vulns I just never opened registration or made a push to onboard users. So I’ll be moving my instance to a nano linode or something. I’m also increasingly happy it’s just me on it.

I need to check out immich it sounds like.

I looked at photoprism. DIdnt really excite me but I have about 20k unsorted photos because of the way dsphoto does uploads and I dont have time to sort them.

I dont even really care about folder structure as much as geo data/time date/event style sorting.

A synology NAS and dsphoto. Its a mess.

I have considered photprism, never set it up though (other things got in the way).

I’m a pretty big fan of the super micro super servers

Like the e200 and e300 systems.

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/embedded/compact-edge-systems

I’ve always considered one for a router. In fact my last one was an e200-8d for a while. Wont do 10 Gb or even 1 gb with Suricata/snort tho and they are still way too pricey.

I do have a rando dell SFF/mini tower I use in a pinch.

Wait you are unclear. Is expensive a problem?

I don’t use PFSense anymore. But I do use opnsense. And while I have iterated through all sorts of appliances, including back to PFSense when I used it and from an atom box, to a I5 base setup to another super micro mini box etc etc.

For the last two years I have been using a DEC 750 from deciso for opnsense. It’s pretty solid.not cheap tho.

I have an old synology DS1513+

it runs Active Backup for business and Active backup for google workspace, as well as an AFP share for Apple machines. This is about 95% of all backups. Those backup archive files are then ALSO backed up to one of two large 14TB hdds. I swap them out monthly (or thereabout) and keep the spare at my office or in my firesafe when at home.

I have a couple other things out there too. A small SSh box to handle some scripting of config file backups etc. My main synology 1815+ also has a cloud sync up to backblaze that happens in realtime, but only keeps 1 copy of stuff as well as a hyperbackup job for super important stuff up to Backblaze, in addition to the nightly backups to the 1513+. This way if my house burns down I still have something (and likely a full copy with the 14TB HDD)