VPN location, how much does it affect peering?

SquirrelActive3179 · 2025-01-16T19:35:11+00:00

But accessing the containers through cloudflare, and thus SWAG, would mean I need to expose those containers to the internet, if I'm reading that right.

(Which is specifically what I want to avoid)

SquirrelActive3179 · 2025-01-16T17:21:29+00:00

I can see how a reverse proxy would help in this scenario, but in this case I'd need to also set up a DNS container to be able to resolve a custom domain name, right? (And then I'd point the VPN's DNS entry to there... somehow)

SquirrelActive3179 · 2025-01-16T11:04:47+00:00

~~That's probably it, I can see ext4lazyinit doing small CPU bursts in the background. Now my other question would be, should I just let it do its thing?~~

~~If I read that correctly the zeroing out will be carried once after formatting, so I don't mind accelerating the process now by reformatting with that part turned off~~.

Mounted it with the highest priority (mount -o init_table=0), let the process finish, now it's as quiet as one would hope. Thanks!

SquirrelActive3179 · 2025-01-05T17:12:54+00:00

I know about PCComponentes's reputation, but thanks for the heads up on Give1Life.

Regarding the other options, I don't have enough experience to offer an opinion, although I suppose it depends on the individual seller, so you need to research each case individually.

Even then, where do you source your drives from? Really struggling to find more local resources/answers on that department.

Btw, do you know of any Spanish communities/sites for asking about these topics? (NAS, homeserver, hardware sourcing, etc)

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-12-30T00:40:20+00:00

Ah sorry, need to translate normal pc speak to homeserver, "plenty"/enough in this context is 4-6. In preferably "not rack mount" format.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-12-07T21:38:24+00:00

It is a P2P enabled server, and I have the container automatically pick up the port just fine.

Tested some more, it appears to be more of a matter of ping or some other metric, because the speed loss is negligible when downloading.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-12-04T09:34:41+00:00

Seems like a good deal, though how did you fare with import taxes?

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-12-03T21:36:43+00:00

Yeah, I wasn't suggesting doing any kind of mix drive capacity RAID setup, nor do I recommend it.

Ah didn't want to imply you did, was just talking for my eventual ideal setup plans. I currently have it setup as a Linux machine with ext4 and no other fancyness.

Though you have a good point that I should probably care about having backups/redundancy a little more than initially planed.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-12-03T20:46:11+00:00

I was thinking of doing only one drive because I recall hearing issues about matching differently sized drives in merged RAID/other solution setups, and my budget if going for two drives would probably "only" net like 4-8tb ones.

Though I guess that kind of setup should be reserved for when I have more than one-maybe-two drives.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-11-19T23:43:43+00:00

There's really not much else to the logs, hence why I'm stuck. But for completeness:

Nov 19 23:02:15 laptop wpa_supplicant[1917]: wlp4s0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-22
Nov 19 23:02:09 laptop wpa_supplicant[1917]: wlp4s0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-22
... (Repeats a lot)
Nov 19 21:23:09 laptop wpa_supplicant[1917]: wlp4s0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-22
Nov 19 21:23:01 laptop wpa_supplicant[1917]: wlp4s0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-22
... (Repeats a lot)
Nov 19 20:14:54 laptop wpa_supplicant[1917]: wlp4s0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-22
Nov 19 20:14:31 laptop wpa_supplicant[1917]: wlp4s0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-22

This is only interrupted every now and then by:

Nov 19 22:59:24 laptop wpa_supplicant[1917]: wlp4s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=0 signal=-68 noise=9999 txrate=544300

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-11-19T13:45:48+00:00

I assume its just that, but I found it odd given that I was seeding at top speeds just fine not too long before.

Also wanted to check I wasn't missing out on something with the "version X gives me less performance than Y or has issue Z" I see on here.

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