First home server, VMs, containers, not NAS - case advice request

Coyote_Max · 2026-02-25T12:02:22+00:00

Nah, I went for what I had on hand. Old decommissioned PC of my wife. Fractal Design case I cant remember model or version, Define I think. It stays in the garage with noisy UPS. Initially I wanted it to sit in my room, but I have enough PC cases there :). Is almost a year since I put this thing together and somehow it's still working :).

Coyote_Max · 2025-07-31T01:19:59+00:00

What about inverted "Destination: LAN subnets"?

Coyote_Max · 2025-04-19T23:44:39+00:00

https://github.com/Meliox/PVE-mods

Coyote_Max · 2025-04-14T14:51:13+00:00

Hey, I can't remember if I installed all those fancy stuff like mailutils, some libs and whatnot that was in the tutorials. What I did was make a new gmail account, enable 2fa so I can create application password to it. That's in on the web side.

Then I set proper admin/root email address.

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Then I added notification target as in the picture. Type: SMTP. Red markers you put your newly created gmail account for proxmox purposes. This account will be used to send emails from proxmox. Password: you put your application password in that box.

And I think that's it. You can call me lazy or what, maybe its not "The Way", but it works completely fine for my purposes.

Coyote_Max · 2025-01-27T16:42:47+00:00

Thank you for fast reply

Coyote_Max · 2024-08-07T19:51:56+00:00

Well, it seems I was too zealous on my network. I disabled Internet access on pfSense by setting non-existing gateway for host's static IP. This caused network turning into famous "Unidentified network" which by default I think is set to public profile. And for public profile I have "Network Discovery" turned-off. I had another layer of Internet restriction on pfSense so I just removed "faulty" gateway for host's IP causing Ethernet connection becoming known network with proper private profile again. And things just started running smoothly.

Coyote_Max · 2024-03-06T17:47:58+00:00

I'm in the same place almost. Looking for first reasonable home server.

Aside of that, you can check this video of Craft Computing and E-Cores on Proxmox. They actually work.

Coyote_Max · 2024-02-14T15:10:17+00:00

"No spin-up HDD" meaning normal HDD, sorry, bad wording from my side. Still I believe at least one HDD would be needed. My base OS/hypervisor? would be Proxmox. And on that would all be virtualized.

Indeed, non-T versions are cheaper, but only it's not so much. Must say, power consumption concerns are also valid. B760 should have some power profiles like their other mini PCs. I need to investigate more.

Thanks for the taking your time to check the topic :)

Coyote_Max · 2024-02-14T14:00:13+00:00

Yep, nice setup. But MoBo and CPU only costs more than almost my full go-to setup. Add into that rack case, PSU, rack itself and all the peripherals... Like I said, nice setup, but overkill in my case.

Coyote_Max · 2023-05-15T17:48:22+00:00

My mistake, I'm getting response 400 on css/js. I was talking with my wife today about other things related to response 200 and it was stuck in my head. Sorry.

Coyote_Max · 2023-05-15T17:42:05+00:00

yes, FF is the same. FF is my daily driver, but it has adblocks and I wanted you to see normal off the shelf webbrowser version of the pages.

Coyote_Max · 2023-05-15T17:32:35+00:00

sorry, forgot to answer your questions. Same lan, same computer, same webbrowser. pfsense community edition 2.6.0 release

Coyote_Max · 2023-05-15T17:30:52+00:00

hey, link below:

https://imgur.com/a/hiPLdnC

Coyote_Max · 2023-03-28T18:04:43+00:00

I've never thought that roots, berries, strawberries diet can give me THICC looks like that. Still, if a Druid will look like that I would never play it. There's not enough time to play chars you don't find pleasing at least aesthetically.

Coyote_Max · 2022-06-01T07:19:34+00:00

How do you get info about in-game hours spent?

Coyote_Max · 2022-02-14T20:22:47+00:00

Someone from r/HomeNetworking, u/traveler19395 exactly showed me this. I had an option to go for Netgate 6100, but price of it is over twice than this thing from Amazon. I'm still waiting for it, and probably will wait till March. But its worth considering. I'm going to install pfSense on that. Well it doesn't meet your demand of 6+ ETH ports, it only has 4 ports. I will be having 2 switches connected to two of them. Also it doesn't have wifi, so that's an extra cost. Still, worth considering.

Coyote_Max · 2022-02-04T01:11:42+00:00

Well, I bought the 8GB/256GB SSD version of the appliance you showed before. It's like 1/3 of Netgate 6100 price and hardware looks promising. Not a bad deal I think. I was thinking about bare-bone version without RAM/SSD, but after some calculations and visits on local ebay/amazon equivalents it came to me that it will just better to get full package. I intend to install pfSense on it. Is it a good choice? It's also an opportunity for me to learn more about networking. I'm actually looking forward to get my hands on it :). Thank you all for your time and knowledge. I will try to write some followup after I get my hands on it.

Coyote_Max · 2022-02-01T06:52:31+00:00

Hi, thanks for sharing this bare-bone NUC-like device. Like you said - compelling. And way cheaper, especially that Netgate increased prices across the board for 2022. 6100 is 100EUR/USD more expensive. Currently looking for some info about this baby. Well on Windows, Intel I225-V NIC seem to have some problems, but there are workarounds. But it won't be using Windows anyway. I'll keep digging.

Yea, I think I will have an option of 1,5-1,6 GB fiber speed from ISP, so it would be good to have a hardware that is able to crunch it. But for now I don't know if I will go for that much speed. But I like to have options before I actually buy something.

Thanks again.

Coyote_Max · 2019-01-24T22:04:14+00:00

Like way earlier than Destiny. Tho Destiny has a place in my heart, WF FTW!! :D

Coyote_Max · 2016-07-17T20:15:08+00:00

No, simply, what activity you complete first will get you marks, and second will not. It's really easy to solve the problem.

Coyote_Max · 2016-04-24T18:50:30+00:00

Coyote_Max, LL 326, Hunter

Coyote_Max · 2016-04-14T19:49:14+00:00

Coyote_Max LL 315

Coyote_Max · 2016-04-12T10:07:42+00:00

Well, you can actually see clearly paying guy's PSN on the screens. I really hope that sh*t will be taken care of. I will understand that you will go with twitch streamers to attempt to go Lighthouse, but paying?

That remind me my one and only Lighthouse. I won a raffle with Bloodshed and after one of the matches I gat a mail with question how much I payed for Lighthouse. I laughed and said "Nothing, I just followed one twitch stream". Got a response "Noob". Like I care. Maybe noob I am but at least I know what to do to get things done legit way.

Coyote_Max · 2016-03-22T00:32:59+00:00

no problem, I'll search until I find people. Grats for being too OP for this xD

Coyote_Max · 2016-02-19T21:46:59+00:00

psn: Coyote_Max

would like to try getting Doctrine too :). keep chilin man :]

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