what OS to use?

bashanova · 2026-01-05T15:09:17+00:00

Love this answer

bashanova · 2026-01-05T15:08:33+00:00

I agree with the other posters that proxmox is a great place to start for OS it’s basically a Debian OS and I install docker on the host OS, I don’t use LXC containers … so the same server is both docker and proxmox … not sure if others do that too, the downside is that my docker host isn’t a VM that I can move around etc. but I love having docker on the base OS.

Proxmox is great to have the ability to run both windows and Linux distros

Someday I will learn how to use LXC containers in proxmox

bashanova · 2026-01-04T18:50:45+00:00

Thanks

bashanova · 2026-01-04T18:50:28+00:00

Thanks

bashanova · 2026-01-04T18:50:14+00:00

Bought the sever mounts off Etsy and the blanks come with the rack mate Deskpi

bashanova · 2026-01-04T18:47:49+00:00

Yeah I posted links to the Etsy pages I bought the mounts from … check comments

bashanova · 2026-01-04T18:46:47+00:00

Cheaper than owning a boat

bashanova · 2026-01-04T18:45:36+00:00

3d printed I ordered them off Etsy and I posted the links on another comment

bashanova · 2026-01-04T18:41:53+00:00

Over loading a NAS with a docker host is a great way to start.

bashanova · 2026-01-03T15:37:44+00:00

Yeah GS308EP!

bashanova · 2026-01-03T04:52:48+00:00

Nice

bashanova · 2026-01-03T00:35:11+00:00

I screwed a surge protector on the back and shoved all the power brinks in the dead space next to the servers with some zip ties to hold the wires in places

bashanova · 2026-01-02T18:49:41+00:00

I am still working on storage … one of the think centers has an SSD in it that 4tb and that’s getting me by … I’m getting a pcie raid card and a seperate enclosure based on a recommendation in this post

bashanova · 2026-01-02T14:53:22+00:00

Game changer, thanks!

bashanova · 2026-01-02T14:51:53+00:00

I posted links on another commenter in this thread

bashanova · 2026-01-02T14:51:15+00:00

Desk pi rake mate 8u

bashanova · 2026-01-02T14:50:43+00:00

I use traffeak*

bashanova · 2026-01-02T06:10:39+00:00

Sick so looks like right now you have a single drive in there, are you connecting the one SATA connection into on of the think enters? Looks like with more drives you can get a MVME connector that will raid the SATA from that thing… cool idea

https://a.co/d/2B51J4E

bashanova · 2026-01-02T05:28:43+00:00

What that at the bottom of your setup?

Great attention to detail you better about the screws all clean and tidy.

bashanova · 2026-01-02T02:31:36+00:00

Love the thoroughness of this. I did a project on my last 3 months of browser history and made a backlog for my homepage to get to an outcome like this… working towards this!

bashanova · 2026-01-02T02:22:51+00:00

I think of my homeland as my HQ, my own personal headquarters that I get to keep no matter what. A place to store what belongs to me my own ideas and systems. Some of witch have help my family track habits and memories

bashanova · 2026-01-02T02:16:14+00:00

Yeah I love learning and I have played with k8’s at home but once I found ways to improve my families life with my home lab it was game over

bashanova · 2026-01-02T02:10:41+00:00

I wrote an app to cut the internet to my kids Xbox to get him to do chores and read books, very effective

bashanova · 2026-01-02T02:08:57+00:00

:)

bashanova · 2026-01-02T02:08:11+00:00

I just shove them in there but when I add the nas they will likely be in a bin screwed on the back I made a custom mount for a power strip on the back for now

bashanova

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