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  • It’s cheaper to build a new server. Cloud… just isn’t cheap. Makes sense for accounting purposes and business reliability standards to a degree but not much for home use.

    This happened to me:

    1. I need a server for my Linux ISO backuos
    2. i want to be able to automatically turn in a thing but only when it needs to be on. I guess i need Homeassistant.

    Now my whole family relies on this underpowered house of cards.



  • “Good” software based RAID (unraid, zfs, etc.) needs reliable access directly to the drives. Usually, USB attached storage doesn’t meet this criteria.

    Not using RAID is risky unless you’re very confident in your extensive backups (which you should have anyways).

    Personally I have been using a mini PC running TrueNAS with a JBOD over USB3.1 for years and have had some hiccups but nothing catastrophic, but I’m migrating it soon to a device I can use SATA.

    Hardware raid is typically not a great idea because you’re usually tied to the chip.












  • I expose homeasssistant via nginx. I run snort and I can assure you I am constantly getting hits. I haven’t tuned it much, so I’m sure there’s false positives in there but I’m equally sure there’s false negatives.

    If you can’t figure out how to set up docker, set up a reverse proxy, check and configure TLS, you definitely aren’t ready for self hosting. It’s a highly technical exercise and one bad move will make your Internet connection part of a botnet. (Arguably, you don’t even need to be self hosting for that, but there’s no point in making it easy).

    I believe it’s never been easier to set up a home server. I set up Tailscale in between sips of coffee one day and my mind (as an almost-grizzled sysadmin) was blown. My non technical family members can set up a VPN in 10 minutes. It’s a terrible security practice, but there’s pipe-to-bash scripts everywhere now that get things set up and running in minutes. You want Homeassistant container on proxmox? Burn the proxmox image to a usb, boot and install, then run this command. Boom. Homeassistant in a container. Let’s do pihole - another script and we’re done.

    It’s ludicrously easy to get going compared to even 10 years ago.

    Yes, when you want to change a setting, or configure it for local use, it’s more complicated. But that’s the way it’s always been, and that’s how I learn - follow the cookbook, and then realize you need to change this piece, which requires understanding that piece, and there you go.