Just a few considerations:

• For a 12 bay NAS I would strongly consider ZFS - which makes ECC more or less a must.

• Mainboard wise the CWK AMD Board is worth a consideration, and so is the Asrock Live Mixer B850 if you want ECC on AMD5

• A popular build option is using a cheap used or “Chinese” host-build controller as SATA ports are hard to get these days.

• I would personally look at using Proxmox and then TrueNAS as an NAS OS and simply passthrough the HBA.

• Another alternative would be using a Zimbra Board and use their expansion options - but that comes with downsides in terms of CPU power and no ECC.

• For Plex it might be favourable to use a CPU with a built-in GPU for transcoding. Intel is slightly better here, but has other downsides, especially if you want ECC

• Get a Geekworm PiKvm, a original PiKVM, a NanoPi oder JetKVM…or something like that. it’s worth it.

• If you don’t feel like self-building anymore have a look at the Ugreen. They come without the “only approved HDDs” Synology bullshit, allow you to install your own OS and are fairly capable. But sadly they do not support ECC. (And they aren’t really cheaper than self building at least not in central Europe.)

• Self building is absolutely possible and we are here to help you.

This plus technitium DNS is exactly my approach.

Damn,yeah …it was late…

I use different things:

• Netbox for the actual hard “inventory” like documentation. What cable goes where, what powers what, what MAC is assigned to what, when did I buy this or that?(The later with an addon). In theory I also have snipe-it,but doing it all in netplan is more convenient.

• Wiki.js for the concept and How-To-Side. Lots of draw.io diagrams (which can be done directly in articles), HOWTOs as a reminder for me, naming conventions, etc. Also some basic inventory information for disaster recovery. (Wiki.js is not hosted locally)

• Vaultwarden for all secrets,passwords, recovery keys, ssh keys,etc.

• Gitea for the most important config files/scripts/docker compose files.

• And last but not least I do backups to Mdisc Blue Rays every few months. These include the documentation, the most important files (knx project for example), etc. and are stored at a different location (bank safe). There is also an detailled explanation in both my wifes and my own will how to access these so if something happens the kiddos or someone taking care of them can gain access.

No,more like an “AD” replacement. Does a lot of things(DNS,DHCP,some Apps),always depends on what one needs.

It sounds like it, but there are a few things I still need to do.

• AMP Gamemanager to get better control of the servers for the kiddos

• Codeproject AI for better image recognition with agent dvr

• A proper voice AI setup with HA

• I need to get my PBX setup going again

• I will soon clean up my media and storage solution and move to TrueNAS

And I need to automate more. One day…

Yeah, but Netbox is really really neat to document cabeling, IPAM, the rack and does asset management as well with a plugin.

But it’s really hard to document HOWTOs in it. And wiki.js is really a bad idea for the former.

Have a look at Cloudron as well,then. It’s free for 2 Apps and Johannes (the founder) is a fairly nice guy from Bavaria.

Anyway,yeah. I have a different post here what I self host (which doesn’t even include everything…) so it’s a slippery slope.

Besides using the power consumption there are also various ways to integrate smart devices - e.g. Bosch Siemens HomeConnect directly and let “the house” react to it. For the later a “no cloud” local integration has become available as well.

• Matrix server
• Element web GUI
• NocoDB for various Mini databases and forms
• Joplin server
• KanBan Board
• Mealie to store recipes
• Grocy as a home ERP
• Grafana for various metrics
• Home Assistant
• NodeRed(non HA, different node)
• InfluxDB
• Zabbix for monitoring
• Vaultwarden
• etherpad
• Technitium DNS
• A NTP server
• Mesh Central
• A win11 VM with RDP
• paperless NGX
• calibre Web (or does that count as Media already)
• Agent DVR
• Spoolmann
• OrcaSlicer via Browser(linuxserver.io)
• Omada Controller
• Univention to bring everything together
• netbox to document half of the shit
• wiki.js to document the other half

Honestly,I think I have a problem.

Yunohost is okayish. Some apps sadly are badly maintained and therefore upgraded with more delay than I considered acceptable (but that has improved afaik)and integration into a single “look and feel” is a bit lacking. Nevertheless it’s solid in the end.

If you are willing to pay something Cloudron may be an alternative for you as well - very well maintained product, good support team and rock solid from my experience - and it’s a non-US/non-China company. (German to be exact) But it costs money for more than 2 applications. I nevertheless went with them - I don’t self host as a hobby, I self-host because I want shit to work. Between job and family I have no time to fiddle around with things and keep everything updated on a short notice. I have project where I can do that, but they are not something my family or myself depend on. (And they integrate nicely with Cloudron as you can add “custom” Apps/use it as a proxy and OpenID Provider)

Contrary to the others here,while I love Paperless,using it for textbooks and notes only worked “somewhat” for me - it becomes quite clunky after a while.

Personally I would rather go with Calibre if I were you if you have more textbooks than notes. Even for notes, they can be attached as well and better organised than Paperless.

(And don’t get me wrong paperless is awesome and I use it heavily)

That’s a bit below the level of reliability I need,sadly - before doing that I could also go for a non ECC solution.

Debatting with myself and to a lesser degree what to do in terms of our homeserver situation. While the proxmox node has more than enough CPU and RAM capacity left, the NAS, an older Synology, is full to the brim, EOL and needs replacement.And sadly being a mini PC the proxmox node is unable to get the HDs connected.

So something new is needed and I would rather have my setup streamlined and combine the two.

But that is… More difficult than anticipated. I really would like something power saving with ECC ram that can take at least two PCI-e (SFP+ and a potential graphic card for AI later on). That can take 4,better 6 HDs. And at least one,better two NVMe. …that basically means self building which I am happy with, but all current builds I calculate come out somewhere south of 2000€ (including two new HDs, as two old ones need to go). And that’s sadly out of the financial possibility at the moment.

If only the fucking Ugreen (DXP6800)would support ECC. While not ideal in terms of PCI-e it would be enough to do the trick.

Don’t go to Proton or Tuta - both are impossible to get out of basically, do not support free standards and Proton is scumy in terms of their marketing.

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Just to name a few.

Yeah,one of the few drawbacks they have. Most people can live with it, but it’s indeed one of the things they should be providing by now but don’t

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Yeah, that’s sounds solid. Just make sure your next of kin know where to look and that there is something to look for.

Ah, a Kiwi. Say hello to your sheep’s from me. (Sorry,former WA resident here, couldn’t resist)

But yeah, we are using exactly that model - and it’s currently only 20 NZD less from what I pay wholesale in Europe for it. So it seems like a pretty decent price.

The drive itself is solid. We currently have around 10, maybe 15, at our clients and it works without any hassle.

I personally recommend to store the disk’s offsite(I store them in a locked box in a bank vault) and some of my clients choose to store another drive there to be extra safe,but I personally don’t see the point.

3-2-1 is the minimal consensus and not recommended anymore for everything you need to reliably have access to after a long time - the fact that some ransomware viruses intentionally have a very time they are laying low to decrypt old and rarely used files is one of the main reasons. Healthcare, finance, taxation, accounting, etc. are all sectors that heavily rely on WORM media and long term tape storage.

You are right that a spinning disk often can work for 10 years - but there is a reason they are exchange earlier in a professional setting. Not all of them will. And you were talking about cold storage disks. This is something even the manufacturers do not recommend - for a reason.