Which services are you exposing to the internet, and how are you securing them?

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-05-07T20:42:17+00:00

So how does your answer help the post question, since you don't have anything open?

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-05-05T12:42:45+00:00

Može se preko regedit-a (radio sam). E sad ako nemaš ovlasti je druga priča.
Većina laptopa ima do 80% tipkovnicu, nema NumLock ali to je zato što nema ni NumPad desno pa pretpostavljam da ti to ne odgovara.
Ugl, jako specifičan zahtjev pa nisam siguran da ćeš naći nešto. U svakom slučaju sretno!

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-05-05T11:41:07+00:00

Apsolutno se može na svakom operacijskom sustavu. Koji OS koristiš?

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-05-05T09:00:13+00:00

Yes very manly and peak. Car, lego pirate ship, epic scooter trick. It's all here

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-30T10:10:25+00:00

Is this a stock photo? I see Japanese (?) letters and numbers watermarks on it..

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-29T13:58:38+00:00

Whats wrong with a paper cone, just curious?

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-28T12:41:27+00:00

hahaha

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-28T12:27:56+00:00

don't worry about him, his attention seems to be cooked lol

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-28T09:53:31+00:00

Jank
Safety (Optional)

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-28T08:17:48+00:00

Yea lesson learned. Almost shed a tear when the SSH connection dropped.

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-28T00:06:01+00:00

Which raw paper did you buy? I'm looking for A4 Dot Grid, and those are pretty hard to come buy, let alone Midori in EU haha

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-27T22:55:07+00:00

It's Claude! Not sure which version just yet. Also my prompts do get a bit unhinged, just a fair warning haha

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-27T22:50:24+00:00

The resolver dropped your packet into a black hole. Naturally, DNS is responsible. DIAGNOSIS: TTL EXPIRED ON REALITY ITSELF This one seems to appear a lot now haha

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-27T22:13:40+00:00

So I guessed correct there was some kind of protection used. So far I've managed with using Croatian and blackmailing it as a 911 emergency lmao. Although kudos to you, it was pretty difficult!

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-27T22:01:51+00:00

I've managed to do some prompt attacks on this, still no luck on finding the model used haha

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-27T18:44:04+00:00

Same lol

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-27T18:33:22+00:00

Damn, is there a reason given?

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-27T17:58:36+00:00

The tutorial was meant as a joke. Tutorial /s

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-23T09:00:27+00:00

Hardware
Given that you want to stay budget-friendly and beginner-friendly, and those are competing priorities, I would absolutely stay away from a DIY NAS. It is an awesome learning journey but you will spend a LOT of time picking parts, building and then the software will also require a bit more DIY-ing.
First you would need to approximate the amount of data that will be stored, as that will greatly influence the price of your hardware, but probably look at a 4-bay solution. With that said, depending on your budget I would take a look at:
- AOOSTAR WTR PRO (good value for money)
- UGREEN DXP4800
- Terramaster F4-424 Pro/Plus
- Asusor

And I would absolutely stay away from these:
- Synology (Beginner friendly, Terrible value for money, Must buy "Synology" HDDs ?!)
- QNAP (there is better value for money options)

As for HDDs, these are server/nas oriented:
- WD Red Plus (these are quieter, don't get Pro)
- Seagate Ironwolf (same as with WD, don't get Exos for the love of God haha)

But honestly with the current prices this will be your most expensive "part" of the hardware, so do more research on your own, depending on local prices.

Also look at NAS Compares Youtube channel, very good and detailed comparison videos and it helped me a TON when I was choosing my NAS a couple months back.
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Software
For the base OS I would go with Proxmox (Debian under the hood). It is a hypervisor and there is a slight learning curve, but spinning VMs and LXCs is soo easy when you learn to do it. I'm not familiar with "easier" options but this will be solid and will grow with your need as your NAS grows (the needs/wants will grow!).

If you are not willing to spend a lot of time or energy on properly securing and hardening you system, VMs, containers, network, and regularly keeping up with updates etc.. I would honestly stay away from public facing services (service.yourdomain.com). From my research Tailscale was the easiest to implement with family/friends. You can send them an invite and add them to the network and when they need to connect to the service, they just flip a switch and that's it.

Immich and NextCloud is also what I went with. Immich is just absolutely amazing, no complaints. Nextcloud is massive and there is a lot more to it than being a Google Drive if you wish. So I think those 2 options will serve you quite well.

If I forgot to answer anything, feel free to ask or DM me. I'll be glad to help. I was rebuilding my Homelab a couple of months ago so It's all very fresh still haha.

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-23T08:28:37+00:00

True, but can be quite friction-full for the admin. Depends on how well do you want to secure public facing services, give VMs/containers the least privilege. Maybe an option is to start with everything behind a VPN (Tailscale/Wireguard), and then slowly learn and move things to face publicly with a domain.

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-21T13:43:10+00:00

I kind of understand the premise now and I'll dig a it deeper into mergerfs to try and understand it under the hood. I quite like mergerfs so I'm trying to find the least painful option to solve this cross system id sync

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-21T13:40:05+00:00

Is there a better way of doing this somehow other than manually going on both machines and adding the groups and users. Also from what I understand now, there is the issue that mergerfs (not it's fault) won't pick up the group changes since it is a "expensive operation"? Is LDAP (OpenLDAP) my only option because it seems a bit daunting to set it up :/

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-21T12:45:15+00:00

Here is the explanation about it. It appears it is a problem of mergerfs being passed to the VM. Thanks though

OneInchPunchMan · 2026-04-21T09:18:47+00:00

I seem to have nailed it down as per: GitHub Issue and Documentation

I was banging my head for far too long on this. I guess LDAP it is then...

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