The one with shitloads of RAM has 768GB and a pair of Xenons… My default VM gets more RAM than my desktop, but it’s great for the rare occasion I need a big-ass ramdisk or something. I was going to build a small jbod and get a couple USFF systems (possibly thin clients) to host my docker containers… Then disk prices went through the roof.
Yeah, I’m feeling the pain from my old enterprise gear but moving away from it has been hard. Right now I have an old 720XD for storage (12, 6tb spinning rust, 2 smaller SSDs for cache), an old Intel server with shitloads of RAM, an old R610 (at this point it’s only there for a service or two that I could surely migrate), a couple old HP MicroServer gen8’s, and an old HP SFF desktop. There are months my power bill looks like a mortgage.
I’ve been a Debian guy for a long time for one reason, stability. I don’t game a lot, but haven’t had an issue in years, my son uses arch and games way more than I do, but he also has to fix a lot more stuff that updates seem to break.
If you are under 30 I almost want to encourage Arch as you’ll be forced to learn a bit more over time and learning is never a bad thing. If you might game some, but value a rock solid system, go Debian.
Much more fun to use linuxgsm and docker, also a bit easier in my personal opinion… https://github.com/GameServerManagers/docker-linuxgsm
IPv6 is disabled at the firewall. I’m just not in a hurry to redo my network.
Personal opinion, IPv6 has been on the table so long it’s no longer something I think about. 20 years ago I thought it was going to be amazing.
Yeah but any authentication I cannot control, is to me, not that secure. I can’t even log into my Plex setup from work because even though it is hosted at my home, it requires a connection to Plex’s infrastructure for login and I haven’t been able to find any OIDC options to use my own IdP. I’m definitely in the minority of their users for wanting to be able to use my own personal authentication.
Totally not the software your asking about, but Remotely worked really well when I needed to help out the mother-in-law (https://github.com/immense/Remotely).
That’s getting to be an old reference but still 100% accurate!
I’m in the camp that believes I’m not that interesting of a target, Bitwarden is a much better target than my Vaultwarden instance. Do I believe that makes me invisible to attackers, nope; if someone is targeting you, relying on an external company doesn’t protect you, it just shifts the risks to them on paper.
I hopped around a little but settled into Debian a long, long time ago. My son loves Arch, I like my stuff to be a bit more stable and don’t have the time to update between commands all the time (its a joke but has a little truth to it).
I couldn’t agree more, I join selfhosting communities all over and not just because I need more stuff to host, because of the community. I love getting to read through the questions and answers, even when they are questions that could be answered by just reading the man page… Maybe it just reminds me of the good old days as I’m getting older and remember asking a lot of similar questions.
Yeah, over the past 5 years or so I can’t say I’ve had to do a lot with it either. There was a time I accidentally nuked it, but that’s why I had a backup.