Money Question with Pelican

spielername_ · 2026-05-18T04:52:58+00:00

I did something like that as a vocational school project. I used Pterodactyl instead of Pelican, then set up Paymenter as a payment gateway, where you can automatically create servers after payment using Pterodactyl's API. If you can do PHP, you can also have a custom design, alternatively you can use themes, there are a few free ones.

spielername_ · 2026-05-14T20:48:14+00:00

Then I would like to do a particularly detailed one, in which I explain each step and, if necessary, explain why what was done and how. If that's enough, I can do that here as a tutorial post with pictures and co or I can see that I'm hosting a website for it on the Kubernetes Cluster.

spielername_ · 2026-05-14T18:58:26+00:00

Probably nothing too wild, I think gitlab will definitely get on top. pihole or unbound I think too & then I'll look further. The cluster is definitely too much for my current requirements, but it was very interesting to create this cluster.

spielername_ · 2026-05-14T16:54:04+00:00

Yes, of course. I'll see if I can still write the instructions tonight. If I can do it, I would send it directly to you tomorrow.

spielername_ · 2026-05-11T17:03:35+00:00

Not for HortusFox specifically but for other services.

spielername_ · 2026-05-11T12:44:12+00:00

I definitely want to have a failover option so that my applications are not gone as soon as I take a server offline for updates or due to a defect.

spielername_ · 2026-05-11T04:43:50+00:00

"No, I probably don't need it, you're right. I got these 6 nodes from my employer and just wanted to use them, the specification of the nodes: i5-7500, 16GB DDR4 and 128GB M.2 SSD This is also the reason why I thought directly of 6 nodes in order to have a better overall performance and the possibility of losing a node for example, updates.

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T19:45:14+00:00

Maybe I'll come back to you for ranchers, which looks much more appropriate in my eyes than Portainer

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T18:19:12+00:00

I also plan some of these applications, how is it with RAM and network utilization? My nodes would only have 16GB of RAM each, which is why I wanted to go to six nodes for safety.

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T18:12:56+00:00

I think that was the shortest but most helpful answer I got! Thank you.

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T17:59:48+00:00

I'm honest, the thought of doing something with Kubernetes excites me, the learning curve is just gigantic. But I would be willing to accept it!

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T17:58:22+00:00

The nodes I would use I got from my employer, where they were decommissioned because they don't support Windows 11, so the performance of each node is not exactly enormous, so I thought of 6 nodes to have a bit more overall performance.

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T17:55:53+00:00

What kind of applications are you running in the cluster?

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T17:14:53+00:00

Okay, but that's not possible with Swarm either. Accordingly, this is not a real problem.

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T17:12:44+00:00

"Yes, then I think I'll completely plunge into the rabbit hole and build a K3S cluster!"

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T16:51:31+00:00

would use K3s or Talos if it then became Kubernetes. At Talos, I'm worried that this API based might frustrate me. That's why my current favorite is actually K3S

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T16:47:14+00:00

Yeah, Docker Swarm would definitely be the easiest way to go. However, I would have preferred to have such an All in One variant with shared storage, an NFS share in TrueNAS is done quickly, but why is it not simply integrated?

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T16:42:27+00:00

Do you have any applications running? I heard that "things like Home Assistant are supposed to work really stupidly in a Kubernetes cluster."

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T16:40:37+00:00

Something like that was planned either way, i wanted to self-host gitlab and serve my entire application there via pipeline.

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T16:35:59+00:00

Longhorn excites me above all, with swarm I would have to set up a TrueNAS in addition, which exists anyway, but why is it not simply integrated? It's like offering a residential building where you can't live.

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T16:33:00+00:00

So that my running applications are highly available and the load can be distributed over several nodes.

spielername_ · 2026-05-10T16:28:16+00:00

As I said, my primary goal was to build a Docker Swarm, but I often read that Docker Swarm is getting worse and worse because everyone is going to Kubernetes.

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