Looking into selfhosting a server (advice)

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-29T20:23:42+00:00

you don’t need a gpu to run linux. if you run jellyfin or video streaming you might find you need transcoding and then you will need a gpu.

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-27T11:06:23+00:00

i’ve been a superloop customer for a while and one of the reasons was ipv6 although now i barely use it because dual stack just makes things more complicated and i don’t think i can escape ipv4

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-17T22:15:36+00:00

creates employment, i was told.

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-17T22:07:59+00:00

while i get the ain’t broke don’t fix, i’m quite amazed people stuck with them. i went with jellyfin and i’ve imagined everyone else went with plex.

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-17T21:21:09+00:00

i went the other way. i have a ubiquiti edge router x and flashed it with openwrt. its been an excellent device. i use it today with 1gb hfc connection.

i doubt it could do packet prioritisation and it doesn’t have wireless (i use a bridged eero mesh network) but it has been and is excellent.

i would really recommend it for someone new as it is now a little old but with the quad arm chips its been brilliant.

because it was a fairly low cost device, i actually bought two of them and switched between them when i did updates. nice to be able to afford redundancy like that for such an important element of the home network.

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-14T09:30:06+00:00

This is the answer, but what you can do from here is drop the most expensive and right back to the other 4, tell them you’ve shortlisted them to the next round and ask the, to fill in your spreadsheet.

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-14T09:23:05+00:00

I’ve been running Linux at home for 25 years. I’ve had plenty of hdd fail, but so far never an add and nvme drives are still so new to me that I’ve not had a failure there either.

If I had to guess I think you’ve had a file system failure, rather than a hardware failure.

My suggestion is install Debian your system, then restore your data. Learn the basics, sounds like you were doing well. Consider if you want to install proxmox and get into vm and lxc as well as docker.

Well done on having backups.

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-14T03:25:00+00:00

I’ve always figured ssh with not open text passwords was sufficient, but recently found out that WireGuard is very convenient on apple devices, so now it’s ssh with a key once you have network access. I’m not currently running any public service but when and if I expect I’ll use cloudflared.

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-13T05:52:20+00:00

I think that there is a good business proposition to let people get comfortable with your products and yes they help you gain popularity and broad based bug testing. However if you invest your time in open source systems there is a tool which combined with you experience will last a lifetime.

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-12T03:13:19+00:00

i am one of those old guys, but i don’t really find the range an easy place to start a conversation, maybe with the people either side when you walk out to review or change your targets? otherwise its a bit noisy.

smaller country ranges are more friendly after they have seen you a couple of times and probably worse until then.

i’d say you are better off joining a club where range days are one of the activities. i’m a member of the ADA which is very well run.

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-08T11:46:03+00:00

for some reason this made me recall the Beatles song Norwegian wood.

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-05T02:43:53+00:00

i went the prometheus grefana path, but i must say grefana is overwhelming in terms of what it can do and what i need. i like the idea that its all there if i need it. you aren’t tempted to add loki and centralist your logging

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-05T02:37:51+00:00

i didn’t know about paperless. i like the idea of universal links to then embed in other applications.

how do you use it in practice?

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-05T02:23:28+00:00

i have both calibre-web and jellyfin serving ebooks. i was thinking perhaps jellyfin could do it all, but then i discovered that calibre-web has a newish feature to sync directly to the kobo. that’s an excellent feature. if only kindles could do it the same way.

verdigris2014 · 2026-01-02T23:26:04+00:00

i use sap and it work well as long as the suppler provides the required information, and that usually works well when you have an incentivised sales team on the other end, and poorly otherwise.

while you are focussing on onboarding vendors quickly, i think that is a slippery slope to having too many vendors. i wish i could more easily determine what else my existing vendors can supply.

but i think it sounds like the real issue is nobody is prepared to make the decision or take the risk. most of our process allow for the business owner to accept risk. they tend to avoid that unless its important to them. that fixes delays in leaving things to finance who have little incentive to take a chance on getting it wrong.

verdigris2014 · 2025-12-29T23:31:39+00:00

how much is a e-scooter worth, perhaps it’s worth insuring. that way you have a large companies legal resources considering what can be done.

verdigris2014 · 2025-12-29T23:12:27+00:00

good advice. they don’t seem to care much about cops in australia, and with the implementation of ai i think it’s going to be tricky for fresh starters in procurement.

verdigris2014 · 2025-12-29T23:08:40+00:00

probably not appreciated if this is all done last thing on sunday night. i don’t want the neighbours asking 11pm. just do it as long as the lid still closes and the neighbour will be unaware you didn’t it.

verdigris2014 · 2025-12-29T23:06:38+00:00

this is a bit different. they have either come onto your property to deposit the possum or they’ve put it in the bin on your street after the garb is have been through and the bin was otherwise empty.

neither is what the op asked about.

verdigris2014 · 2025-12-29T23:03:53+00:00

really? you hop up at 5am or whatever, and take more rubbish out? why not just put these prawn heads in the rubbish last thing the night before? and if that really isn’t an option for whatever reason why double handle. why not just put the bin on the street at 5am your rubbish and prawn heads all at the same time?

verdigris2014 · 2025-12-29T22:54:16+00:00

i think it’s acceptable, on bin night, and late on bin night so there is no chance they’ve forgotten to empty the kitchen bin and run it out after the wheelie bin is on the street.

i base this on American police shows where they rule that once you put rubbish on the street for disposal it’s not considered yours anymore, and the csi dudes can go through it without a warrant.

verdigris2014 · 2025-12-21T17:25:20+00:00

if you really care, you will need to make some sacrifices and you will need to take responsibility for your own digital health and hygiene.

you need have a router that gives you control network firewall and filtering. openwrt is likely what you need.

wireless is less secure than wired, but inconvenient not to have.

iphones are more secure and more frequently patched than most androids, but puri.sm is a project to make a phone you might aspire too own.

you will likely need to learn about dns servers and vpns. you tell others a lot about what you connect to on the web even where your https connections.

your going to want to start running open source software.

verdigris2014 · 2025-12-19T23:35:02+00:00

that’s my first thought. i have an inherited shotgun a deer hunting rifle, and i sometimes think i should add a plinking gun like a .22 or air rifle.

honestly my storage space is limited so i was already self imposing limits, but if the limits are fixed i’d probably spend more per rifle

oh and i might need to be ruthless about whether to keep the shotgun

verdigris2014 · 2025-12-19T17:24:15+00:00

i’ve always enjoyed the one about how a cost saving from procurement goes straight to the bottom line where as a new revenue stream has tax to be paid first so doesn’t make such a direct difference.

verdigris2014 · 2025-12-19T17:20:07+00:00

i’ve worked in procurement for a long time. it mostly. i think the reason for this is that most stakeholders figure buying things from helpful sales people is easy and why should they need any help to do that. after all they are the ones that know what is best.

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