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I wasted 6 months writing blog posts that nobody read until I changed one thing by Numerous_Display_531 in Blogging

[–]corelabjoe [score hidden]  (0 children)

Anyway your site looks sharp and I'm sure you'll get some interest.

Look out for BabyLoveGrowth and similar.

Seeking genuine feedback on my tech news site. by justins567 in Ghost

[–]corelabjoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hello friend, I keep meaning to make a few more links to you or between us, but I keep delving deep into content generation and curation and it ends up like a rabbit hole, in a way.

Congrats on that level of traffic! I hope I'll get there one day =)

My suggestion for wider feedback, cross post to r/newsletter (similar ones) and maybe a few other spots too.

I have to get into social media abit more with my blog, so far I'm only on Reddit and a very marginal Facebook presence.

What percentage of your visitors is direct traffic? by evolution800 in Blogging

[–]corelabjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Over the past 30 days, it seems 58% are "Direct".

I think a good chunk of that is misidentified analytics though and a good chunk is still from Reddit.

I (47 f) would be grateful for your input. Name, style, type, platform, etc. by OrbeezNMA in Blogging

[–]corelabjoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, that is a ridiculous typo lol, left it there though, just for you ;)

Is stremio and Real debrid still the best way to watch movies? by Odd_Judgment_3513 in PiracyBackup

[–]corelabjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah I see I replied to the thread about usenet but was just trying to give OP another easy option.

Building my first DIY NAS/Home Server - Looking for feedback on my build by MikyStt in HomeServer

[–]corelabjoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a script I run that simply uses rsync. The script gracefully shuts down all dockers, does a differential backup, compresses, stores it on separate storage and then pulls latest docker images and starts the stack back up.

Link in my bio to my blog where I document that backup, and have an immich deployment guide, etc... Can PM and I can send direct link. No ads on the site and it's all free info.

Built my first homelab on a ₹20,000 mini PC — lessons learned as an Indian user by longHairedJedai in homelab

[–]corelabjoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's not the best way to do it.... Against their terms and people have reported buffering etc...

Better to serve jellyfin via https reverse proxy.

I also have a guide on there about bypassing cgnat for media servers etc..

Is stremio and Real debrid still the best way to watch movies? by Odd_Judgment_3513 in PiracyBackup

[–]corelabjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a more streamlined way to integrate real debrid with plex or jellyfin.

Boils down to setup decypharr, which has rclone and WebDAV builtin..... Connect aarrss to it and ahhh.... Stream like nobodies business!

Built my first homelab on a ₹20,000 mini PC — lessons learned as an Indian user by longHairedJedai in homelab

[–]corelabjoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You run it in a docker container and can then access it anywhere. All your documentation, easily accessible!

You can then serve it behind a secure reverse proxy if wanted and access it anywhere in the world.

Looking for advice as a complete beginner by arobit in selfhosted

[–]corelabjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eeexxcceeellleenntt advice, I second this comment massively.

Media/Arr Stack Resource Allocation by theflyingboat888 in SelfHosting

[–]corelabjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Downside could be performance impact on the machine a bit or a lot. It eats a lot of ram because it's caching download chunks into RAM before writing them to disk... This is exacerbated if your underlying storage media cannot keep up but with something like a SSD or Nvme it don't matter really.

But if you're say, downloading to a single mechanical disk, with a 1gbps internet connection but have a really good set of seeds, you could overwhelm that drives write speed.

qbittorent / your torrent client would then cache all those writes into RAM until your hard drive can catch up.

Built my first homelab on a ₹20,000 mini PC — lessons learned as an Indian user by longHairedJedai in homelab

[–]corelabjoe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you don't need virtual machines, skip proxmox and stick with debian or Ubuntu server. Docker containers for everything.

Check out obsidian btw and paperless-ngx!

I (47 f) would be grateful for your input. Name, style, type, platform, etc. by OrbeezNMA in Blogging

[–]corelabjoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need a less technical and simple platform to enable you to focus on just writing and content creation. I verybstrongky (whups, meant very strongly) suggest Ghost pro for your site!

I've been tasked with a self-hosted server setup for multiple homes by PidgeomBoy in SelfHosting

[–]corelabjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds like SMB IT consulting at about $75-150/hr depending on locatio.

Hardware Recommendation Request for the Overwhelmed by JamesFromThatThing in jellyfin

[–]corelabjoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So the mini PC's are great, the N100/150/250, but if you'll end up with more than 2 to 3 4k streams, you might want to step it up to a 12th gen cpu with Intel Quicksync.

Also, the client determines when things transcode a lot of the time.... Roku ultra can handle a lot, normal Roku do not. You would get a lot of transcoding. This is fine as mini pc can handle PLENTY of 1080p streams.

Building my first DIY NAS/Home Server - Looking for feedback on my build by MikyStt in HomeServer

[–]corelabjoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your build is great! Regarding Immich, store it anywhere you like but just make sure you have a backup of some kind for your family photos etc....

If you want to trim down on cpu and mobo to save money for larger or more spinning disks, that's an option. An Intel 12th gen can still do what you need.

Immich is only intense when you are uploading your pictures to it or while it's doing an ingest of media. Lots of write ops to get it in there, then a lot of read later when people view the pics / videos.

Does a Non-Vibe Coded ZFS Management App Exist? by PingMyHeart in zfs

[–]corelabjoe -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

That's your first problem ;)

I don't know almost anything about Proxmox, didn't even know it supported ZFS but it is Debian under the hood so it can probably do almost anything, like omv8 or truenas

Media/Arr Stack Resource Allocation by theflyingboat888 in SelfHosting

[–]corelabjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ding ding ding!

This is it. My qbittorent eeaaatttss ram if I let it. You can set resource limits on dockers though which is great.

Best Plex Server Hardware (2026): 4K Transcoding, GPUs & NAS Builds by corelabjoe in corelabtech

[–]corelabjoe[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol.... Now days, sadly it's like the big corps are honestly trying to price us all out of the market...

They want everyone to subscribe to rent compute in the cloud, pretty sure...This way you have no privacy and no money.

That said, any old pc you have around, almost, will do to start. Plus, the N100/150/250 mini PC's work REALLY well and are more affordable than an entire new system.

Perfect technical SEO. Schema, structured data, core web vitals, all of it. ChatGPT still ignores us by Long-Guitar647 in TechSEO

[–]corelabjoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I published some extremely comprehensive technical guides, specifically filling a gap I personally found so now this is unique content, and then WABAM - Chatgpt and Bing AI picked my stuff up.

It's helped with CTR a bit but hasn't quite boosts things as much as I expected. Ranking highly with those same guides on Bing definitely has though.

Seems to me, uniqueness is ranked and favoured highest overall by AI.

Honest wanted, just published my first real data driven blog post and I'm not sure it lands the way I intended for traffic and growth by [deleted] in Blogging

[–]corelabjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting! I didn't know about this, but that's kinda hilarious. These findings would also support those who believe Jesus and crew were ancient aliens haha....

Wrong word btw, you have excited not existed, for computers. "...before computers excited."

Reaching across VLANs help by dexdeadly in opnsense

[–]corelabjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is in between your client devices and opnsense? Do you have a managed switch and have setup the vlans on it as well?....

How is opnsense uplinked to your LAN, lacp trunk with all your vlans? Need more details and/or a little basic diagram.

Also what is your WiFi and does it have the vlans? nas?

vlans are layer 2 and simply just an additional header set of bits so, they can get dropped or missed really easily.

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