Thread 107047472

No NAT November prep edition

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READ THE WIKI! & help by contributing:
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Home_server

NAS Case Guide. Feel free to add to it:
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Home_server/Case_guide

/hsg/ is about learning and expanding your horizons. Know all about NAS? Learn virtualisation. Spun up some VMs? Learn about networking by standing up a OPNsense/PFsense box and configuring some VLANs. There's always more to learn and chances to grow. Think you’re god-tier already? Setup OpenStack and report back.

>What software should I run?
Install Gentoo. Or whatever flavour of *nix is best for the job or most comfy for you. Jellyfin/Emby/Plex to replace Netflix, Nextcloud to replace Googlel, Ampache/Navidrome to replace Spotify, the list goes on. Look at the awesome self-hosted list and ask.

>Why should I have a home server?
/hsg/ is about learning and expanding your horizons. De-botnet your life. Learn something new. Serving applications to yourself, your family, and your frens feels good. Put your tech skills to good use for yourself and those close to you. Store their data with proper availability redundancy and backups and serve it back to them with a /comfy/ easy to use interface.

>Links & resources
Cool stuff to host: https://gitlab.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
RouterOS's: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Home_server#Custom
https://reddit.com/r/datahoarder
https://www.labgopher.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/wiki/index
https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Features
List of ARM-based SBCs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PGaVu0sPBEy5GgLM8N-CvHB2FESdlfBOdQKqLziJLhQ
Low-power x86 systems: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LHvT2fRp7I6Hf18LcSzsNnjp10VI-odvwZpQZKv_NCI
Cheap disks: https://shucks.top/ & https://diskprices.com/

Remember:
RAID protects you from DOWNTIME
BACKUPS protect you from DATA LOSS

are you ready for a No NAT November bros

nix completely replaces docker
dockertroons BTFO

Could have sworn some anon wanted to know how much these tiny switches consume
With 2 10G-SR transceivers, 3 gigabit devices and 1 2.5gb device. It's 5W exact.
Feels surprisingly warm for only 5w, had mine for a year already

Can I just jam some 2.5 inch sata ssds into my sas back plane? They don't fit the trays, but they also don't weight anything.

>>107047472 (OP)
>>107047544
I don't usually come to these threads but I really like the sound of no NAT november

I want to cut costs on ai tools so thinking of making a homelab for n8n automation and generative text and images. Can someone point me in the general direction or even give some pointers?

From the research I've done, it'd be best to get a used workstation and throw in something like a rte 3060, to use for anything generative.

For the n8n server, something like a R210 II would be fine and I can just get a $10 server cabinet from marketplace?

>>107049648
If you have one lying around try it. Should be fine. If your worried then you could get some of those adapter trays. Uf you don't wanna buy those then maybe some jerry rigged foam? You could probably make it work anon

Can I do it for like $200 bucks? Like a shitty nas setup with 4tb?

>>107047472 (OP)
>No NAT November
My ISP wants me to jump through so many goddamn hoops to get around their double NAT situation. Makes me real suspicious...

>>107049980
Just get a used think center on eBay and an ssd.

>>107047472 (OP)
>>107047544
>>107049697
>>107049992
NAT did nothing wrong

>>107049648
I read ass thought you were trying to smuggle them through airport

>>107051073
Guys have you upgraded your servers to an ASS backplane yet?

after a year I randomly decided to try adguard home instead of pihole and this shit just feels much faster and has access to useful toggles
even the ui doesn't look so wooden

How would I redirect hardcoded dns if my tv uses 8.8.8.8 for example?

>>107052520
If you're running opnsense as you should just hijack 8.8.8.8 9.9.9.9 1.1.1.1 and other common DNS IPs and redirect them to your own DNS, filter from there.

>>107047544
sadly, my IPS forces me to NAT

>>107052520
>How would I redirect hardcoded dns
Source interface: All, Destination interface: WAN, Source IP: All, Destination IP: GoogleDNS (8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4), Service: DNS (TCP 53, 5353, 853), Action: Block

And if your firewall/router supports it, you can simply redirect all traffic going to 8.8.8.8 to the DNS provider of your choice.

just bought a minipc, installed debian headless and plugged it into tailnet. Put in rtorrent and syncthing for now. Kinda excited at finally having my own linux server.

>>107052749
This. I use opnsense and I do this.

I followed this to a letter.

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=9245.0

The only exception, is created an Alias of my phone / laptop that I want to be able to bypass my DNS filters on Adguard.

Works solid. Realized how persistent my smart TV is truck to escape the cuckbox. 25k+ DNS blocks every 8 hours just for one TV. Crazy

>>107053398
my first server is and was truenas. But seeing as how truenas is almost fuilly linux based now on latest versions, I will probably go full linux next....

just tried latest KDE' s remote desktop feature, it's fucking amazing, fully accelerated

>>107053398
it is kino but at some point you realize you need to plug the hdds in somewhere

any bazarr users here? does it not support the ability to embed subtitles into the containers?

are ASn ranges reliable for securing access with firewall or do these change with time? thought about this because I have dynamic ip and want to allow ssh only for my ips

>>107054728
remember that time the indians nuked the internet by stealing cloudflare's asn?

want to install proxmox on a pc i have lying around. eventually and if i like this homelab shit i want to buy a dedicated nas and media server, but for now i will just lift some virtual machines or containers inside proxmox to setup jellyfin, some torrent client and even my own gitlab repo. how easy will it be to make that switch? (from virtual to actual physical machines and proxmox still managing everything), and is it better to modularize everything? like jellyfin on its own container, qbittorrent on another container, etc

>>107054926
proxmox is for tards. just use a server distro.

can i unplug the fan on my PoE netgear 24 port switch? i don't use the PoE and it's fucking loud.

>>107047472 (OP)
NAKADASHl marin-chan

Would recreating my zfs pool and use 128K file size instead of 1M be worth it? >>107045374

>>107052520
>>107052609
>>107052749
>>107054387
Why not redirect all DNS requests? Port forward all DNS (53) traffic not going to LAN address to 127.0.0.1 (for Unbound on OPNsense).

>>107057778
Nvm, last post did exactly that.

>>107054387
>25k+ DNS blocks every 8 hours just for one TV. Crazy
Reminds me of that time I hooked up a samsung tv to a pihole for shits and giggles and the request stream consistently overwhelmed the pi kek

I have had plex running on my gaming PC and its been working great

>upgrades to huge 4k toshiba w/ built in google
>replaces entire library with 4k content
>tv struggles to stream over local network
>galaxy S20 streams fine locally and even while im at work
>speed tests show tv is downloading 200mbps over internet (600mbps locally)

Where is the bottleneck, is it the TV's cpu or other hardware? Even accessing the files directly over network without the plex interface gives me buffering issues when trying to watch really high quality movies

Is tailscale running some guerilla marketing campaign on reddit? Why does everyone act like using a reverse proxy means you're instantly going to get raped and killed by Russian hackers?

>>107057778
A bit buzzed at the moment so this is going to be long and rambly.

>Would recreating my zfs pool and use 128K file size instead of 1M be worth it?
You can set recordsizes on a per dataset basis. Put your stuff in different datasets and adjust the properties accordingly. RAIDZ is always going to have low IOPs, but there are some workarounds, particularly if you have a few random extra drives lying around. Option 1 is to recreate your pool as a pair of 2 2way mirrors. This is the "simplest" solution, and you'll get a lot of additional IOPs over the raidz, at the expense of capacity.

The fancier approach is something of a "why not both" approach where you add metadata special devices on top of the existing raidz. Note that metadata specials do not *have* to be solid state drives, that's just the default in enterprise settings because the assumption is that anyone using metadata specials is probably running dozens and dozens of vdevs and actually needs the IOPS to function. (plus at that scale the price of SSDs is in single digit percentages of the rest of the pool hardware.) If you have a couple of spare 500gig or 1TB drives floating around, try adding them to your pool as a metadata special. Note that you CANNOT remove these later because you have a raidz vdev, but you CAN take a checkpoint before adding them (checkpoint is basically a snapshot for a pool), and if this doesn't do what you want you can rollback your whole pool.
>https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/8/zpool-checkpoint.8.html

Anyways, the trick here is that you can use the small blocks property on a dataset to force all the blocks on that dataset to be stored on the mirrored vdevs, which improves their IOPS over the raidz. This is true even if the special device is comprised of spinners. I've done this for a while to host VMs and lxcs that don't need "true" SSD performance as well as ones that write out asinine amounts of data semi regularly because it means I'm not wearing SSDs.

>>107057778
>>107059675
I maintain that it's worth having metadata specials in general when using RAIDZ because that lets the RAIDZ do what it's good at, large linear read/write operations, and leaves the chaotic metadata to a mirrored device. Again, that's an improvement, even on spinners. If you have SSDs and aren't concerned about the wear and tear, great. If you haver mechanicals and don't need the SSD performance, great. Up to you either way, but metadata specials are great.

Do note that you'll need to rewrite all the data on the pool to migrate the metadata to the special device. This can be done in place with zfs rewrite, but note that snapshots will remain where they are. rewriting is creating new blocks, so your utilization will skyrocket until those snapshots/checkpoints are pruned. If capacity is an issue, try doing some limited stuff with specials to see if it will work, then purge the checkpoint/all snapshots and rewrite the whole pool.

>zdb -LbbbA poolname
That command shows you a breakdown of your pool data currently. The row titled L1 shows you how much of your pool is metadata (hint it's going to be tiny, especially with large record sizes and no dedup). Most of the rest of your specials can be small blocks data, so any random small capacity disks will give you a fair amount of capacity until you start dealing with 100s of TB of large records, or 10s of TB of tiny records.

>Monero
Honestly not super familiar with the behavior of monero beyond that it's using LMDB under the hood, which can be absolutely fucking horrendous for pointless I/O spam. How much ram does your system have? If you have a lot you can probably brute force things to a degree because things will sit in cache and be fast to lookup. Internet says monero only writes about 1.5GB per day, so nothing crazy.

>>107057778
>>107059688
General performance tweaks. See properties here. https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/7/zfsprops.7.html
>redundant_metadata=some/most
This reduces the amount of metadata being paved out. If monero is storing stuff in a single file then these two are effectively equivalent. The general gist of this is that zfs by default paves out fully duplicated metadata on top of the vdev redundancy. A 2 way mirror will have 4 copies of all metadata by default, so you'd need a total drive failure + two URE events to lose some piece of data, which just isn't likely. Dialing back the amount of metadata can make you susceptible to dataloss with a drive failure and a URE, but for something like a crypto database that can rebuild itself this may not be critical, plus you can always have 2+ drive redundancy at the vdev layer (3+ way mirrors, raidz2/3), which means you need various combinations of multiple disk failure and UREs to lose anything.
>compression=lz4
zstd is great, but it's burning cpu time, and most crypto databases are largely uncompressible, so just stick with lz4. lz4 is the default so if you never changed that on a parent dataset it'll default to on=lz4. Maybe copy your database over to a different dataset with zstd to see if it compresses notably better with zstd, but I'd wager it won't. If it does compress better, that can improve your ARC hit rates which reduces disk I/O.

>2 days to get journal forwarding correct from guests to host
>now realize it forwards EVERYTHING with no way of filtering
>rsyslog removed by default on debian 12
>installing it would make most shit start writing to /var/log again

>>107057778
>>107059688
>sync = disabled
Bad practice in general, but again, crypto databases can be regenerated, so loosing a bit of history if your system crashes isn't a big deal. Worst case it takes a few minutes more to resync than if you were properly flushing writes to disk. During the initial synchronization this probably saves a fair degree of disk I/O because you aren't paving out tons of nonsense to the intent log as you rebuild the database. I'm assuming that monero is "properly" calling for sync writes here for safety (as all databases generally should), so bypassnig this and letting things accumulate in ram before periodic flushes will save a lot of I/O.
>recordsize =???
Honesty not sure on this one. The internal data store of monero is 4k in size (sort of), but you're probably better off with larger record sizes. Some of this is going to be dependent on how much ram you have. If you have enough ram to hold a decent portion of the database in memory, then larger record sizes are effectively prefetches for the ARC, and while you will be amplifying writes with larger record sizes, any aggregations within the same block will reduce IOPs being flushed to disk. Normally on databases you want your recordsize to be 1, 2, or 4x the DB record size, but monero appears to be primarily random read when syncing, so maybe leaving it up in the 64 or 128k range makes sense. Note that you don't have to delete and recreate your database when changing this value. Any rewrites will update the record size of the rewritten block(s), and so it'll "correct" itself automatically over time. The only things that won't be updated are things that are never rewritten.

>>107047472 (OP)
I dressed up my anime sex doll like Marin

>>107054387
>>107059723
>small_blocks=(large value)
Set this at or above your record size and everything on that dataset will be stored on your metadata mirror. Easily lets you segregate datasets between the slower RAIDZ and the special. For your torrent stuff, leave this off, or maybe set it to 16 or 32k so that random text files and shit live on the specials. For anything VM related you can leave data on specials. Note that currently zvols stay on the non-special vdevs, but there is a pull request to fix this. Your disk images should probably be qcows or some other file format if you want them to exist on specials for the time being. The pull request for this is below.
>https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/14876

Some of the above are useful in general. Setting small block >= recordsize and redundant metadata reductions on your VM can substantially improve performance with shitty hardware. It's all about managing IOPS at the end of the day, and migrating them to devices better capable of handling and/or reducing them improve performance substantially.

>fin
Again, long and rambly. Probably be up for a few hours, but no idea if I'll be coherent enough to respond to questions tonight.

How loud are ThinkCenter’s? I am going to put one on my desk and use it as a server running it 24/7. I sleep 5ft away from it. Am I retarded?

>>107059639
i've noticed this as well, and i think you're even understating it. i dont know if it's fire from the mountain for retards who dont understand networking or if it's nationstate coded. the vitriol i've seen is suspicious at a bare minimum. it's worse than people shilling for sports teams.
so i started drilling into how the hell tailscale set up their infrastructure and why they are a freemium service and apparently they're heavily VC funded for some reason. there is no fucking way in hell that their premium subscriptions are funding all those DERP relays (which are an obvious MITM) and that amount of free bandwidth, let alone the hardware. it's just not possible. one of their VC partners is associated heavily with in-q-tel, but that's the most i could find about their structure that sounded off.

>>107059639
>whoopsie your system got gaped, goy. dont worry it wont happen again, Tailscale is very secure we promise, just keep using it ok goy?

>>107062229
how does this happen

arr drama unfolding currently on discord

>>107062382
why is it always discord trannies
I feel that you had to think a second before posting shit when you used real forums

>>107062382
zamn nigga, just put the tvs and movies in the bag

>>107059586
Is the server (your gaming pc) connected to your router over wifi or over ethernet? How far is everything from your AP? Do you use 5ghz or 2.4ghz? Maybe try using a wifi analyzer to see if there is channel interference

i'm that anon who asks about proxmox in the past that don't want to uninstall windows 7 on my retro vidya machine, also the anon who own "allegedly stolen" netgear r7800 with openwrt.
i finally bite the bullet and install proxmox now serving my own nextcloud with 0 spending, thank god for reverse proxy.
also behind cgnat and still able to do everything for free kek

>>107062827
*picrel

I have defeated opnsense and it's weird gateway behaviour!

>>107059586
What are you using to play movies on the TV? The tv apps are usually pretty shitty and just cause problems. You might need to get a fire tv stick/roku/chromecast/nvidia shield or something like that.

>>107062382
>giving a shit about what people say on discord
why even bother posting inane shit like this. how much time do you waste on discord to even find useless stuff like this

>>107059586
my bet is on TV hardware. I have never used Plex, so I don't know what your options are, but I'd try out different codecs and bitrates to get some idea. does 4k playback from USB stick work fine?

>>107057864
>>25k+ DNS blocks every 8 hours just for one TV. Crazy
>Reminds me of that time I hooked up a samsung tv to a pihole for shits and giggles and the re'

I read that opnsense doesn't use any CPU cycles for dropping rogue DNS request like this, but imagine having a whole house full of TV's like this phoning home? eventually the router would basically be DDOS'd to death?

>>107057791
Maybe there is a better way to do this, but this worked for me?

I also am old school in that I set my network up with physically separate LANs instead of VLAN's, so I police chink hardware spying on my internal subnets via firewall rules and not vlan rules.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but I trust firewall rules in opnsense better than VLAN rules even though at a code level they are probably the same.

This guy explains it well to a network retard like me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjXkWSjYqlM

Is this the right thread to ask which 8tb external hdd I should get?
I wanted to get a WD mybook one but after I learned they use fucking hardware encryption I'm kinda turned off.

>>107064994
Buy a normal high capacity HDD. Then buy a USB enclosure.

Has anyone tried building their own server rack with aluminum extrusions as the frame?
I'm trying to find one that can fit flush under my desk but there's either a gap or it's too high.

With >10 year old laptops, why is it a dice roll whether or not replacing the HDD with an SSD will work? Is there some way to trick it into working? I installed OpenBSD to both the SSD and HDD from CD on the laptop, and only the HDD boots.

>>107065613
Get rack rails and mount them on some wood.

>>107065690
Is it a capacity issue? Many old systems can't support larger capacity drives.

Could also be a sector size issue. I've seen bioses that freak the fuck out at 4k sector drives, so they need to either be 512 or 512 emulation.

>>107065690
maybe incompatibility with SATA version (even though it supposedly is forwards and backwards compatible), so far all my old laptops worked fine (SATA1 host, SATA3 device).
>>107065851
Unlikely, by the time SATA1 was mainstream all devices supported 4k sectors

>>107065826
Honestly was my first idea. However buying wood is more expensive than buying the aluminum extrusions.

>>107065851
>>107065856
I'll try a smaller SSD, but trying to go into BIOS settings to check AHCI seems to freeze this Toshiba A120 Satellite. (And as this is /hsg/ you can say if that's dreadfully underpowered for a home server)

>>107066110
I ran a Pentium 4 2GB RAM home server for quite some time a few years ago so there's no really "underpowered" when it comes to serving, it just depends on your workload

>>107047472 (OP)
I'm gonna do it bros

>>107065938
Depends on whether you want it to look decent. You can get 2x2s for very cheap. It's shit wood, but if you aren't trying to make it look pretty it's very cheap. If you want to do it out of white oak or something, yeah, that's going to cost actual money. On the other hand, you can do 1x2s or 1x3s or something like that and be fine. You don't need a full 2x4.

>>107047472 (OP)
Hoardlet here. Can I get away with using WebDav instead of smb/samba? I'd prefer to only deal with one if possible. I'm on linux, and I've read samba is a pita to use/set up with linux, and is less secure and performant over the internet. On the other hand I've read WebDav isn't finicky like Samba and is more secure over the web, though slower on lan in comparison. Considering using rclone in either case since I've read the perform well with smb and webdav. My use case for the moment will probably only be lan file sharing/streaming, but I may want to remotely download files in the future. Thinking of just using jellyfin for the streaming. File transfers will probably mostly be handled by rsync. Not using nfs since it's poorly supported by android from what I can tell, and the pc I'm borrowing from a friend until I build my own in a few months is windows, though I might just buy an nvme and put linux on it since I will have to do it anyway when I build my pc.

>pita to use/setup
nope, i literally just setup a proxmox lxc for smb server with alpine templates and run these three commands
apk add samba
rc-service add samba default
vi /etc/samba/smb.conf (to serve the dir i want to serve)
and it's up and accessible from my windows machine

>>107068016
Thanks for your input. I remember reading about all these conflicts people would have with permissions since it's meant for windows not unix, among other things. Something else pushing me toward samba is that it seems like mounting webdav shares as network drives would involve FUSE, which makes it slower, less reliable, etc. Not sure how true that is though. Just to be clear, what I want to do is transfer files onto the windows desktop pc storage drive, then just share/stream the files to other devices like my android phone and linux laptop. I don't need/want them stored locally on the other devices.

>>107068190
>mounting webdav shares as network drives would involve FUSE, which makes it slower, less reliable, etc.
meant to also say "from what I've read" at the end. Don't know how true this is as I said.

>>107059767
>Again, long and rambly. Probably be up for a few hours, but no idea if I'll be coherent enough to respond to questions tonight.
Based. Enjoyable read, but this reaffirms my original suspicion that I should just upgrade the boot drive and use that for seeding and a monero node, and the pool just for media storage as was the intent when making it.

>>107067651
I might do this instead. I'm just worried that if I make a DIY rack that it can't support the gear and just collapse. Maybe I can forgo the rack rails (pic related) and just make some kind of shelf, but again, I am not a woodworker, I don't know what screws I need to support all my server stuff.

If I can stuff them in an Ikea Alex drawer then that's perfect. Since my desk is basically just a countertop with Alex drawers as the legs.
https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/alex-drawer-unit-on-casters-white-80485423/

>>107066200
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::2043:6875:636b:2773

>>107069032
You don't need structural screws to support a home rack. You shouldn't use drywall screws, but any generic wood screw will do just fine. Even deck screws will be acceptable.

I have a proxmox server with one debian vm running just a samba server and other vm for docker for stuff like jellyfin. I noticed that the docker vm started acting weird, some docker services worked but others not, restarted the vm and now it gets stuck at a black screen with a _ blinking but it doesn't accept any input. I did see when booting up it was a problem with fstab, it said "checking was requested for, but it is not a device". I can access the samba shares from other devices so those are not the issue. I didn't make any changes or updated anything on this vm, any idea what might be the problem?

I've recently started buying some HDDs and I've been running badblocks to test them, I want to have a dedicated testing rig when I do them. Does badblocks need a decent CPU or RAM? Can I just buy some Dell mini PC on ebay and call it a day?

>>107070136
Literally any shitbox with sata ports can badblocks test a drive. A TI-83 could run badblocks because it was made to test floppies. Set the block size to something large so that it runs faster. 16M is 16777216, or go even larger. Honestly though, unless you're buying used drives of questionable provenance, I'd just do one pass with 0xaa or 0x55 and call it a day, or realistically, not even use bad blocks. Trudging through reading and writing a full 28 tb drive 4 times will take more or less a solid week. It's thorough, but it's a flawed test because bad blocks can't necessarily detect translation errors where the drive is writing or reading from the wrong sectors.

If you do want to test drives, make a zpool with default settings in an n-wide mirror. Pave out a few TB of random garbage (dev random or just copy over a bunch of blueray rips or something), and then scrub the pool. Sure, you're not hitting every single sector, but you are forcing the drive to actually do real 'work' as opposed to a benchmark. It's quite rare for a drive to misbehave in a way where splatting out a few TB of data and scrubbing it doesn't trigger an error, but bad blocks will.

As data density has increased, things have gotten smaller and smaller. When modern drives have platter failures, they tend to outright shit themselves these days. They might start generating read errors because of a bad head, but that doesn't care about where you're pulling data from. The failure case where you have random holes in your platters doesn't seem to happen much anymore. Besides, you should have some degree of redundancy in your RAID array to begin with, so even if you somehow get a drive that passes a basic zfs splat test but has minor issues, you can replace it later without running into issues.

>>107070411
Different anon here. Any thoughts on RAM testing? I currently do four passes on Memtest86 to do basic hardware validation and then a few hundred % on HCI MemTest with thread to worker distribution over the total capacity.

>>107065690
>dice roll
lol
the dogshit distro is a dice roll when it comes to hardware support, not the laptop itself
i can boot or install or swap debian and windowsXP/7/8/10 on any laptop made after 2002 with no issues

perhaps a strange question, but
if they're about the same price, would you get molex to 4 sata power breakout cables or molex to 5 sata power?
I always thought "floating pins" could cause some fuckery if you're only filling 4 interfaces of those 5 breakouts

>>107068190
yeah you do get permission error but i believe this is because i'm running lxc so i'm defaulted to root for everything
anyway i just did
adduser smbuser
smbpasswd -a smbuser
and chown the folder i want to share to that user and it's all good
if you want the smb server to be broadcasted(shows up on windows explorer networks) you should also install wsdd too,

>>107070960
They're all connected in parallel so as long as 1 connector is used none of them are actually floating, and even still it's just power so it doesn't matter.

What's a self hosted alternative to tubearchivist? I thought it was supposed to be this easy to use thing where I just point it at channels and it'll download things, but it's breaking every week and it'll stop downloading again. I'm missing some many lewd mmd dance videos fuck.

>>107065613
are you trying to cook yourself or something?

>>107070960
Get good ones, I fried a bunch of drives with these things.

>>107046629
you could also use the docker image which is actually just hydrus running in VNC. janky but it works.

>>107070517
Memory testing is faster than drives, and memory is more critical than drives, so I can understand people wanting to fully test it. That being said, if you're pressed for time, go straight to the hammer test in memtest. I haven't observed this happen with DDR5 yet, but I've seen dozens of DDR4 and DDR3 kits that will pass everything except the hammer test, and a few more that failed a few different tests including the hammer test. I have never seen a kit pass the hammer test and fail something else. It's possible conceptually, but the hammer test is brutal.

I do a full test pass overnight when building new systems, but if I'm just double checking stuff after a minor hardware change, I'll do a hammer test over lunch or something and call it a day.

>>107062827
>>107062879

Now let me change your life https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

>>107047472 (OP)
My wife Marin

Thinking of installing my NAS baremetal instead of inside Proxmox. Thoughts?
Pros:
Easier to manage since I don't have to fiddle inside Proxmox for drive passthrough and all that other shit. SMART monitoring actually works.

Cons:
Have to buy a new machine.

Posted on /sqg/, got no answer. Trying here:
So how does a VPN work? Like wireguard or something self-hosted like that? I understand what it does, but I don't understand how it does it.
>you're out and about
>connect to a certain address, on a certain port
>VPN picks up your connection
>now you're on your home LAN
>but you can still access the internet
So the connection comes in via the VPN, then goes out via your router to the wide web? Or does it only use the VPN to access stuff on your LAN and bypasses it when going out to the web? What's the deal with ports? If I can access the VPN from the net, why is it safer than opening your server to the internet without the VPN?

>>107075237
>why is it safer than opening your server to the internet without the VPN?
authentication

>>107075237
>So the connection comes in via the VPN, then goes out via your router to the wide web? Or does it only use the VPN to access stuff on your LAN and bypasses it when going out to the web?
depends how you set it up - both are possible.
>If I can access the VPN from the net, why is it safer than opening your server to the internet
Generally a smaller well tested attack surface like wireguard is considered safer than what may be lots of smaller niche projects directly exposed.

>>107075266
So far I'm trying to learn the basics of networking, not really caring for the services I'll be hosting in the future. I'm just trying to ssh remotely as a learning exercise.
If I were to not use a VPN, each individual service would be exposed independently to the web? Instead of just exposing the VPN, you say?
>wireguard
That itself would be one of those services I'd be hosting, right? If everything is conteinerised, how can that allow access to the other containers if it can't touch them? It goes via the LAN like this?
>connection comes in
>VPN's into LAN
>LAN's into other service
>response goes back the same way
Won't take make it slower? I don't care about movies so the only thing I'm planning on streaming is music (and books, but I think I'll just download those from my private cloud), will that impact performance for my application?
>>107075263
>authentication
What are some options I can set up for safety? ssh uses key pairs which seem quite secure to me, can I do the same with VPNs?
Once I set up the VPN and without exposing the other services, will they work straight away with the VPN as if I were accessing them via LAN or do I have to set them up to only accept access from my private IPs?

>Manage to get a USB wireless dongle to show in opnsense VM
>Interfaces: Wireless: Devices: ADD
>Parent Interface:
>Nothing
Alright, what other bullshit do I need to check to get this working? Not passing a hub, just the USB device directly, which opnsense console sees.
Unless it's better to have the host manage the wireless device and just pass an extra interface into opnsense? It's realtek so that's probably the quicker solution.

>>107062382
w10 chads running 0 gay addons stay winning

>>107062382
I see my policy of avoiding any software where the devs have an active discord presence continues to pay off.

>>107073818
what can do with it? i mean i already used it to get rid of the nag, enlighten me.

>>107062382
I think I'm one of the few people that doesn't use *arr. I'm not a fan of automating my torrents, and I'm very picky on what to download. I always do it manually.

>>107076076
I recently got fiber and even more recently figured out how to route an entire VLAN through a wireguard tunnel to a VPS and port forward on that VPS so my rtorrents are connectable.
Now I have to manually readd thousands of torrents because last time I was massively active. utorrent 2.0.4 was the height of technology.
Fun times

>>107076272
>readd
See, that's different. If I ever need to readd torrents I use a script for it. I'm fine with that, I know what I torrented already.
Adding new ones is a different matter. With automation I don't know what it's adding, what quality it's in or if it has shit I want or don't want.

How does IPMI work? I plan on getting a cheap X10 Supermicro board but I don't plan on adding a GPU (for troubleshooting) on it. From what I read you can control the computer on another PC so you wouldn't need a keyboard and mouse. But how does video work? Does it send the video signal through the IPMI to my main PC and that's when it outputs it?

>>107076628
>Does it send the video signal through the IPMI to my main PC and that's when it outputs it?
Pretty much, yeah. Most IPMI/Out-of-Band solutions provide some shitty ASPEED "GPU" for picture and
provide basic remote functionality to check hardware/power on/off, mount virtual media for install or just
remote control in case you fuck up. Ideally with a dedicated LAN port as well.

For Supermicro, I have some vague memories about them having some shitty licensing impacting...something.
That could be easily defeated via some script and the boards serial...

>>107076628
>>107076763
found it
https://github.com/manfromafar/supermicro-ipmi-keygen

>>107076938
Oh man, thank you.

>>107076763
For X10 boards specifically the licensing is for virtual media support.
I think for some boards it's also updating the BIOS but in general both are pretty useless unless you absolutely need to flash a BIOS
The virtual media also requires a working SMB server and there is zero feedback on why the hell it isn't working.

>>107047472 (OP)
Where is this book/course? Can't find it.
(OP pic)

>>107076997
It's not real and you don't need a book https://gist.github.com/timothyham/dd003dbad5614b425a8325ec820fd785

>>107047472 (OP)
>Have a Home Desktop used as a server.
>2700X, Taichi x470
>Running XCP-NG
>2x16GB RAM
>Upgraded to 4x16GB sticks
>BIOS sees all sticks.
>Boot into XCP-NG only 32GB is usable

Any ideas why? If I turn off SR-IOV all 64GB is usable. But I need that shit for PCI passthrough

hurr durr so I own a domain, have a VPS (headscale installed), and am running a bunch of services locally in my home lab, but I still use IPs to access these services and have avoided TLS and shit, but I guess I want to be able to access my home lab from anywhere and maybe using my domain name with https of course yet avoid exposing services to the internet like a retard, and apparently I should maybe use a reverse proxy and I guess the VPS would work as a nice buffer between my home lab while hiding its public IP should I host some game servers or something I guess that'll need exposure. Also, some services should be accessible to members of my family too, maybe using Wireguard (to my opnsense router?), but in a secure way. I have vlans, so maybe I should isolate their access to a separate subnet this way for security too (should I do that for game servers too?) So what the fuck do I actually want here and how do I go about doing it?

I chose to go with diarrhea of thought for this post thanks for reading my blog.

>>107078906
Wireguard or OpenVPN comes on quite a lot of good routers. It's on ASUS routers and Ubiquiti, where you can just Wireguard into your home network really easily.

Yeah you'd be wanting to port forward or use NGINX. I didn't even learn how to use NGINX, AI can make the files for you within like 10 attempts and you'll never touch it again and just copy paste the templates so who cares. Just LLM the files.

My impression is that the routing protocol will drive external traffic into a single hardware gateway--say you run a DNS server at 8.8.8.8 and you get like a billion requests an hour
first of all that just sounds ridiculous for a single machine to handle and how would they even do failover
this is obviously wrong so how do hyperscalers (BGP?) handle routing external requests into an IP address at scale?

>>107047472 (OP)
redpill me on the best used mini pc for my homesever. i want to do file share, dns, some docker slop and maybe a basic ai chatbot. what are my options?

>>107072517
damn, glad you posted this
>find out PCIe 6-pins can only handle ~75W
>unknowingly been attempting to run 6-8 x 3.5 7.2K HDDs across a single 6-pin line
>didn't even know about boot/spin surge, so more like 4-6 safe per
>thinking about it now, you definitely choked that one failing drive across 5 years and degraded that whole set
the more you know

>>107075185
I think after a certain size one should either go baremetal or a very optimal hypervisor install. But you do you. If you fell like you are enough to do the maintenance and keep everything stable, you risk nothing.

>>107075755
Are you sure it's compatible with FreeBSD?

>>107079690
are you talking about load balancing an insane amount of flows? anycast and/or F5s. look up F5 LTM and GTM setups.

>>107075378
>What are some options I can set up for safety? ssh uses key pairs which seem quite secure to me, can I do the same with VPNs?
yes you can (and should) use key based auth for your VPN connections.

>Once I set up the VPN and without exposing the other services, will they work straight away with the VPN as if I were accessing them via LAN or do I have to set them up to only accept access from my private IPs?
it depends how you set up your VTI and overlay network. you might have made an entirely new segment which requires new rules on everything.

>>107076055

Well, host everything. You have proxmox now, so you can just keep piling those services with almost zero effort. Just look up something you might find usable and try it out. Here's my datacenter for example, I just keep installing these CT's because it's fun to try out things.

>>107067935
webdav is fine. I run sftpgo as the server, and mount with rclone on windows and this provider on android: https://github.com/alexbakker/webdav-provider (build it yourself from source because the faggy dev only distributes the APK on the play store for a fee; it worked better for my use case compared to https://f-droid.org/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid/)
I can't say how well it works for data uploads because my setup is strictly read-only: I torrent on the same machine running the sftpgo server, and only consume the media via webdav.
the only issue I have with it is that you won't see the used/available space summary. I think webdav has an extension (in the form of a supplementary RFC) to report this data, but either or both of sftpgo/rclone don't implement it.
it saturates 1 Gb/s link locally, and it also saturates my measly 30 Mb/s uplink when I access it remotely via wireguard.

>>107069032
If you're going the Ikea route, why don't you use their dedicated product? https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

>>107073818
nta but im some other anon who has been using proxmox for years and didnt even know about this kek
thanks anon

>>107080547
i spun up 3rd container for jellyfin (102), and i am utterly disapointed, when i add library it doesn't use my file name and folder structure by default.
smb is just plain better at this point, i can't deny though that having transcoding is handy but still, what a niggerliscious software, i don't get why people hype this thing up.
*picrel samba server i previously talked about, pretty impressive idle ran usage

>>107047472 (OP)
Ubuntu Server or Fedora Server?

>>107047472 (OP)
>No NAT November
You will NEVER!!!!!!! be a woman!

>>107081175

Jellyfin is still inferior to Plex. All the plebbitors here root for Jellyfin because it's free while Plex has a steep price for the license and they keep removing free features. But Plex just handles libraries better. I don't use Plex that much myself unless I'm watching outside of home or on my TV. SMB is superior, because I can just use MPC-HC.

>>107072517
>>107080252
With staggered spinup you can get away with alot more.
I'm up to 11 HDDs on a single cable, zero failures and zero complaints from any of the drives.

>>107081657
damn, that's impressive
is that hand wired or some custom cable?

My apartment has fiber. But unfortunately the ONT is sitting in a wallcabinet. There's a RJ45 plug next to it, though. As I'm building a minilab in my living room, I thought of buying a fiber to RJ45 converter. But the converter just doesn't work, it seems like it can't get a signal from the ISP.
The converter is rated for multimode and singlemode. Am I doing something wrong? There's no button on the converter where I can change some settings, either. Pic related, it's a Trendnet 10GBase-T to SFP+ (model number TFC-10GSFP).

>>107080447
That's a high probability that it isn't compatible but I have no idea how to check.
Probably would be faster to turn it into an "access point" in a container and bridge it to a new veth into the VM.

>>107082558
Are you sure it's a plug and play fibre connection and doesn't require a modem? Because that converter ain't going to do dick if your ISP requires a modem on the other end of that fibre.

>>107082558
what transceiver are you using? you left out a bunch of information.

>>107082558
You'll probably have to show a picture of what you're talking about because there's a lot of info missing here. Most fiber ISPS are using GPON or XGSPON these days. A simple converter box isn't going to handle that. You'd need an SFP module like the WAS-111 running the appropriate configuration to talk to the ISP hardware.

You're in an apartment, however, so it's very hard to say without pictures because some complexes actually run standard SFP optics between buildings/floors/whatever now

>>107083250
Yes, I can plug it into my PC and get a public IP. It's a P2P connection and doesn't use PON.
>>107083252
https://www.fs.com/products/11603.html
>>107083417
Sorry, see my reply at the top, it's a P2P connection. When I plug it into my homemade router (a simple PC with a SFP+ card from Mellanox) it works without any problem.

Before sending this reply, I just found this review on Amazon (the 1 star one from Hunter on the 11th March 2024):
https://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-TFC-10GSFP-Media-Converter-10GBASE-T-Schwarz/dp/B0C871SQVQ?language=en_GB#averageCustomerReviewsAnchor
Which is probably the reason why it doesn't work. Guess we now know. I think I'll buy a MikroTik RB5009, that thing only costs 60 bucks more than the converter from my previous post and I have one more excuse to buy a MikroTik device. Already got an AP and switch from 'Tik so why not.

UK HDD market is bad. I'm camping on buying secondhand white labels and still getting sniped.

>>107083642
you can get 4TB drives for £20, you're just stoopid

>>107083621
>Yes, I can plug it into my PC and get a public IP. It's a P2P connection and doesn't use PON.
Then next question any way to test the converter works? Internal network, direct connection whatever just to confirm it does work?

>>107083699
4TB is not great density per slot in my machine. More power usage too.
I wouldn't hit even half my storage target if all my slots were using 4TB.

>>107083800
4TB is just what has the best price per byte right now. if you want higher density per slot, then get that instead, for like ~50%-100% as much per byte.

are drive prices ever going down? the ones I bought over a year ago cost almost 50% more now?

>>107083963
>bought drives 2 years ago
>200€ per
>bought same drives ~9 months ago
>330€ per
>looked up prices now
>450€ per

so i got a r740xd with no raid controller, but i have the backplane and stuff, which raid controller should i get? i have space for 24 ssds

>>107082123
Custom cable from moddiy

>>107083841
>get that instead
Yeah, I am.
What's the warranty, CMR, helium status on these drives you're talking about anyway? If you're talking about eBay stuff, lol. They won't even give you SMART test results most of the time.

>>107084826
literally who cares about any of that when it's £20

Stupid question: Can you daisy-chain routers?
Let's say I buy two of the same consumer-grade, off the shelf routers, set router A to use 192.168.* and plug the WAN port into my modem, then set router B to 10.* and plug it's WAN into a LAN of router A.
Will I end up with two isolated networks that can both access the public internet?
If this can't be done with off the shelf software, can it be done by flashing them with OpenWRT or some other open networking stack like pfSense, or is my only option buying a managed switch and messing around with VLAN tags?

>>107084093
9305-24i

>>107086234
So all shit then? You can SMR air-filled junk from ebay for cheap. What a revelation.

>>107086234
So all shit then? You can buy SMR air-filled junk from ebay for cheap, with faked SMART values or none at all. What a revelation.

>>107086252
sir, tis No NAT season, not dual NAT season.

anyway, yes, you can do it, but you almost certainly shouldn't. if you want two isolated LAN segments, then just get a switch that does VLANs.

>>107086298
i thought you were complaining about prices. now you're saying the cheap used stuff is junk?

>>107086370
I see why we are talking past eachother. My post was not especially clear.
I'm complaining that there are not a lot of decent hard drives available for a good price, to the point where even secondhand white labels, which are the less sought after drives of those that are still good are being quickly bought as soon as they're listed.
The price is not so bad. It's more the availability at that reasonable price point, for a good drive.
I have 5 of my 6 drives I need, so I'm nearly finished with all this for now, but it's taken a really long time to put this together.

>>107086352
Ultimately, that's what I want to do, but right now, I want a sandbox to learn about more serious networking topics in (beyond what I can do with simple VMs) that has access to the public net without compromising my ability to google for answers or using my existing devices when I inevitably fuck something up. I figured the cost of admission of "buy a second cheap router and maybe a dumb switch" would much lower than an enterprise grade switch, along being easier to back out of.

>>107086448
>and maybe a dumb switch
Read up on VLANs man, you can have multiple networks with a single router.

>>107047472 (OP)
how can i bug my ISP enough to provide ipv6?

>>107086448
dual NATting consumer grade routers won't put you in a position to learn any kind of "serious networking topics". get used enterprise or just put pfsense on an optiplex/thinkcentre. taking ownership of the network, including planning for downtime and being ready to recover from unplanned outages, is a big part of the learning process.
t. ccna

>>107081175
jellyfin is a meme

>>107047472 (OP)
why would i use proxmox when i can just use docker compose?

I don't TV/Movie, and music I do local on my phone. Other than a file sharing service to try and get friends/senpai off Google/apple shit, what other software should I even bother self hosting? I might make custom YouTube and Bandcamp piracy tools, but that should go on a monero paid VPS. I feel like I have no reason to even get into building up a home server...

Is it possible to simultaneously randomise a drive while also testing for bad blocks?
I know about badblocks' -t random flag, but that uses a repeating pattern. I'm wondering if there's a way to test for bad blocks that leaves you with a true random drive after the test is complete.

I believe the bottom has fell out on gigabit switches

Adding wifi to my 4 port 10gbe all expenses spared small footprint home '''server'''

>>107086538
>>107086583
I'm familiar with the idea of VLANs (I use them at work), but I want something that's not going to be able to impact my current network in any way shape or form, which as far as I can figure means physically separate networks. I work remotely, which means the second I can't connect to my work laptop to the corporate network anymore is the second I stop collecting a paycheck.
I notice my modem has multiple ethernet ports on it, maybe that will let me have multiple networks?
>just put pfsense on an optiplex/thinkcentre
I have thought about doing that. I currently run a pihole as a DNS server, and I want to move to running my own DHCP and doing PXE for VMs on some more compute I am planning on buying as the next step.
>including planning for downtime and being ready to recover from unplanned outages, is a big part of the learning process.
I'm aware, I run k8s and VM clusters for my company (just the compute side, and some of the storage, which is why I want to get smarter on the networking part), and a lesson I have learned the hard way that you can "plan" for outages and downtime and rollbacks all you want, there's nothing quite like physically independent hardware to drive down risk.

>>107087282 (me)
I might just be dumb. I was assuming that a managed switch would be rack mount 1U+ and hundreds of dollars, minimum, but a google search turns up stuff like this. Will I be able to plug this into my current router setup and put pfsense on the other side to be a custom DNS/DHCP server just for stuff plugged into it and I've been way over-complicating everything?

>>107087177
I'm having a hard time visualizing just how in the hell the motherboard even exists in that system.
I know it has to be smothered by that monstrosity of a quad NIC which probably consumes most of the power of that system but I cannot see it

>>107087503
check the manual. not all managed switches have the same feature set.

>>107083188
Check the repository. You can confirm the chipset in either Linux or FreeBSD somewhat trivially.
https://github.com/alexdupre/rtl_bsd_drv

At least one drive in my zfs pool is making grinding noises every few seconds. How do I identify which one is fucked up so I can replace it? No errors reported anywhere and SMART all looks ok. Running a zpool scrub makes a constant grinding noise. These drives are only like 2 or 3 months old what gives??

>>107086257
thank you!

>>107079690
At Cloudflare (and Microsoft as far as I am aware as well as just about anyone who runs a large network) just using anycast addressing ie many machines responding to 1.1.1.1 is not enough and you are correct it would be very hard to build servers that could handle this. Instead the DNS servers report to a controller that tracks usage and based on the volume ingress requests are directed to different servers. There is no playing with BGP since it would be far too slow and complicated to get other carriers to route into the correct edge router. Instead the ege routers are given a new policy and impose a different set of MPLS labels to reach a better server. No change in routing no load balancing appliances since these would also choke and die as DNS request sessions are far too short and far too frequent to make stateless loadbalancing make any sense.

>>107087779
Everything is suprisingly cool (for copper 10g) with the blowers and 40mm exhaust fans at 40%. I'm waiting on thermistors from china to actually monitor and have proper fan curves. It idles at an ungodly 50w. But at least I only need one cable for power.

>>107087779
It's a sandwich style 4l itx case, the motherboard is on the other side.

>>107048980
>nix completely replaces docker
what the fuck are you talking about? nix has nothing to do with containers. and almost no one uses nix, do you realize this? and docker is used literally across the entire planet. the question is how is it possible that nix trannys are so fucking stupid?

>>107086627
>docker
proxmox literally has no purpose. use docker containers until you actually need a vm, then just use vagrant with kvm

>>107048980
is there any benefit using nix over docker?

>>107087503
>>107087796
Low effort RouterOS/Mikrotik shill link
https://mikrotik.com/products/group/switches

>>107089362
>use vagrant
no thanks Ranjeesh

How many 80-92mm fans can I connect to a single 4-pin fan header?
The fans are rated at 0.1A (92mm) and 0.09A (80mm).

>>107087282
>>107087503
in that case, your best option would be to get two WAN uplinks.
>I notice my modem has multiple ethernet ports on it, maybe that will let me have multiple networks?
generally the second link on the modem is reserved as the administrative interface. regardless, your ability to have multiple WANs will be determined by your ISP issuing you a secondary connection, not by how many ports you have. some anon plugged in a dumb switch into the modem and allegedly both of his routers got issued an IPv4 each. it might also just be a case of asking your ISP to enable it for you (likely for extra money). if your ISP does IPv6 this might be another solution. you could also consider getting a completely separate broadband line (or even wireless) from a different provider.

I want to set up an AP in my apartment, but the ceiling is already too crowded.
If I mount in on a wall vertically and pointing away from most of my devices, is the signal going to be worse than if I use something like pic related it mount it horizontally?

>>107090291
only way to know is to try. the easiest method might already be more than sufficient.

>>107089882
Depending on the header, most consumer motherboards can handle 1A/12V per header, there are some that can handle 2A/24V but they are rare and only seen on ultra high end boards nowadays

Do you recon that the drives are gonna be adequately cooled?
Drives are 10tb wd gold with 5-6mm space between eachother
case is fd define 7 and ill run it without the filters
White fans are arctic bionix f140, the bottom fan is fractal design dynamic x2 gp-14, theres also a gp-14 exhaust fan at the rear

pic related

>>107090545
Yes, that's more than enough.

>>107090545
I mean there's exhaust fans directly next to them.

Speaking of HDD cooling, is it that even possible with a Supermicro chassis without a mod? The HDD backplane traps the heat from being exhausted, so you have no choice but to 3d print a fan bracket and place it on the front

>>107090842
Not super sure, but unless my name is Bloomberg, I would expect a commercial Supermicro storage case having considered how to cool the storage with the case.
Biggest challenges would be the case being really loud because nobody cares in a rack and airflow being suboptimal if not all HDD slots are filled, but there are dummies or tape solutions to even things out.

>>107090832
These are intakes

>>107091026
so you have fans blowing cool air directly on them and asking if it's enough cooling??

>>107090935
>but unless my name is Bloomberg
kek

>>107090935
>I would expect a commercial Supermicro storage case having considered how to cool the storage with the case.
Enterprise server rooms are extremely cold which is why they aren't designed for HDD cooling. Most of these servers are passively cooled. Not ideal in a home environment unless you live in a cold climate.

>>107091152
>Most of these servers are passively cooled
I have never seen a passively cooled, off-the-shelf server.
They tend to have a bank of fans spinning at very high speeds sucking in air from the front tot he back.
CPU blocks might have no fans but that's not because they are passive, it's because the entire case is
designed as one big funnel. Even your picture has what looks like 3 120mm fans - they have to get air
from somewhere and that somewhere is the front through all the drives.

>>107091202
>I have never seen a passively cooled, off-the-shelf server.
I mean the CPU's are passively cooled, but of course they have 80mm 10k RPM case fans.

>they have to get air
from somewhere and that somewhere is the front through all the drives.
It pulls air from the side vents(which are taped for some reason). There's no way enough air passes from the top/sides of that backplane.

>>107091299
>I mean the CPU's are passively cooled
Those dinky blocks are very much designed for active cooling.
Just because the fans are not directly attached to the blocks does not make them passive.

>It pulls air from the side vents(which are taped for some reason)
If they are taped, there should be no air coming through them.

>There's no way enough air passes from the top/sides of that backplane.
It's literally how storage cases are generally designed and it is working.
If all bays are populated - if not, the bays without drives have way less
resistance and therefore get most of the airflow. If air couldn't pass
through the backplane, ghetto rigging fans in front wouldn't help because
the heat would still be trapped.

If the server isn't in a climate controlled room, that just means the fans
have to spin harder.

>see ebay listing for used sticks of 32GB DDR4 for cheap
>purchase 4 of them
>they arrive
>are actually DDR3
>submit a return request
>get a refund, no return required
what the fuck do i do with 128GB of DDR3

>>107091152
Unless the HDDs constantly run at 50°C or hotter it isn't a problem. You don't want to cool them too much either, iirc the failure rates start rising when you run them below ~28-30°C.

>>107091837
Without the fan mod, my HDD temps would be 10C higher, so 55~65C would be the norm. With the fan mod, HDD temps are 35C~50C.

>>107047472 (OP)
What a beautiful women. It seems like I should learn ipv6 now.

Any neat self-hosted apps you recently discovered? I found netvisor a few days ago and it gives you a visualize look at your network topology. Works smooth!

https://github.com/mayanayza/netvisor

>>107089741
not an argument, what is the technical problem with vagrant?

>>107091409
list them on ebay

>>107091946
>no IPv6
Not in the spirit of no nat november are we

>>107092156
what's the problem with proxmox?

>>107091946
nice software maya

Shill me some FOSS monitoring solution!

>>107092683
you've provided zero pros or cons in using it, so no need to use it. but you're telling me i need a management suite on top of my vms and containers? no thanks. how about i just don't do that at all and don't waste my time. also proxmox uses resources, why not just use those cpu and mem resources on the vms and containers im using instead of wasting them. you going to provide pros and cons of using it? didn't think so. i just provided you with a bunch of reasons why you shouldn't use it

>>107092783
prometheus / influx + loki + grafana
that's really all you need

>>107092880
nta but i have like a bunch of old servers i all put together in a cluster with proxmox

i can for example put an ssd in anywhere it will fit and have it show up in proxmox
i shove it up your ass? i can use it as a local-zfs if i really want to

>>107047472 (OP)
Since Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops isn't free, are there any fast RDP-like programs which would allow me to use a Windows 10 desktop over the wire in my home network?

>>107093592
What about...RDP?

>>107093592
nomachine

>>107093592
I use parsec to remote desktop from work to my home computer. It's very smooth, free version.

>>107093641
I've heard it's not exactly optimized for video streaming so instead of using, say, your laptop's hardware GPU decoder you end up wasting bandwidth and CPU on the host machine. I haven't been able to verify those claims.

>>107093668
>>107093762
Isn't it more similar to VNC where you just stream raw video? I don't have a GPU on my servers and I fear it may be a problem

>>107047472 (OP)
Guys what do i do if my routers firmware is broken? Im trying to make an asus.com dns server but I keep getting this error

>Nov 2 18:21:26 inadyn[7959]: In-a-dyn version 2.8.1 -- Dynamic DNS update client.
>Nov 2 18:21:26 inadyn[7959]: /etc/inadyn.conf:3: unexpected token '='
>Nov 2 18:21:26 inadyn[7959]: Parse error in /etc/inadyn.conf
>Nov 2 18:21:26 syslog: Error code 74: Missing .conf file

Is there any sort of hack way I can insert a dns server into my routers conf file?

>>107094459
You have no idea what you're doing or even talking about. Stop.

>>107094476
Im literally just following the asus.com setup ddns server guide ;_; everything is telling me the token = is a firmware glitch pls enlighten me i need to make a ddns server

>>107094459
>Guys what do i do if my routers firmware is broken?
re-flash it with the stock firmware obviously

>Is there any sort of hack way I can insert a dns server into my routers conf file?
nano /etc/inadyn.conf and fix whatever is causing the parser to fail. You're probably better off asking chatgpt or something to fix whatever niche issue you're having

>>107094511
Okay :( ill see if Ai can fix the parser or whatever thank you

any UPS recommendations for my Seasonic Focus Platinum 550 W? I heard I should use a pure sine wave UPS otherwise my PSU will just reject it, but they're extremely fucking expensive

>>107095212
>I heard I should use a pure sine wave UPS otherwise my PSU will just reject it
lol what? where did you hear that.

>>107095299
just whatever results that come up, really. Something about the Platinum PSUs being sensitive to step approximated sine waves? I'm not an electrician so this all flies over my head

>>107093876
>for video streaming
What exactly are you trying to achieve because Shitrix is not really meant for streaming either.

>>107095668
It's not but it tries to offload video processing on client GPUs. Microsoft calls it multimedia redirection
>https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/multimedia-redirection-video-playback-calls
and Citrix even has Teams optimizations which work quite well when I connect from my work laptop to Windows servers
>https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/multimedia/opt-ms-teams-new/hdx-optimization
my goal is to set up a Windows server and find a way to connect to it that doesn't fucking suck because of mouse cursor lag, 500ms+ latency when typing or video performance which is always shit and kills the server when you have more than one client trying to watch a video

Is minio foss kill? What's the /g/ approved alternative?

newfag here in the middle of setting up my homelab rn, trying to make it kind of an all-in-one setup for data, sandboxes/dev stuff, containers, hosting, etc. (altho i do have a pi running as my exit node for tailscale)

was thinking about hosting my personal site on it too but seeing a lot of conflicting info. some people saying it opens up your whole server to attacks and that even with containers/vms it’s not really isolated enough to be safe.

any good resources on this? or should i just stick to a vps / paid hosting for that kind of thing?

>>107052729
your intrusion prevension system forces you to use NAT? :^)

>>107091946
network mapping tools are other decent or straight garbage, no in between. this one requires a completely open network to function. it cant check CAM tables, ARP tables, or routing tables (global or by vrf), doesn't do LLDP, doesn't do CDP. just straight ping and reliance on socket responses for service polling. so it probably has tons of trouble with UDP based services because it doesn't support WMI or SNMP or systemd polling. certified vibe coded trash.

>>107096821
not exactly supposed to be an enterprise solution. most home networks are simple with the occasional vlan/vpn.

To use a backplane or not? I plan to use an open air case so air flow is not a problem. What I am worried about is when the backplane eventually craps itself. How hard is it to find replacement backplanes? If it shits itself how would I know? I need a plan for the inevitable failure and I don't know how to tackle this problem.

Maybe write on a cache SSD that is NOT connected to the backplane, then once done transfer the data to the drives connected to the backplane, then do a hashcheck? Is that how people do it?

>>107096821
Can you recommend an alternative?

>>107097095
>when the backplane eventually craps itself
You'll probably replace all your HDD's twice over before that happens. Those things are designed to be rock solid. I got my backplane USED in 2016 and it's still going strong.

>How hard is it to find replacement backplanes?
Not hard? They're always on sell on Ebay.

> If it shits itself how would I know?
I guess you just wouldn't be able to access any of your storage. It's not like a dead backplane will somehow destroy all your storage.

You're worrying about the wrong thing.

i was about to get 2x1TB SSD for proxmox raid1 boot drive & iso+template storage but why the fuck are their prices doubled since 2023

>>107097280
same reason everything has doubled in price

>>107097280
AI demand is creating shortages. It's not just SSD's but ram too.

>>107097300
I bought 64GB of DDR5 ram back in 2024 for $224. It's now $400. Insane.

>>107097231
The ones on ebay are expensive. I'm actually thinking of buying the chinkshit ones.
Name brand hotswap bays are expensive and they're properly documented so it's easy to get a replacement. What I want to buy, because I'm poor, is some chinkshit one with no documentation or description on where it came from. I also don't know the quality of it so if it breaks in a year or 10 years.

>>107069772
Restart it a few times, there should be a GRUB menu where you can edit the default entry and remove 'quiet splash' from the kernel parameters if they are there.
This should allow you to see the boot messages and errors.
You could also try booting a previous kernel from the same menu.

>>107096846
wireguard specifically uses silent drop UDP which is impossible to poll by doing a scan. so, your premise doesn't make sense.

>>107097221
most homelabs do not require network mapping because sprawl is inherently low, save for a few power user environments. for actual network mapping your best options are aria operations for networks (need VMUG at least) and whatsup gold (requires a license). librenms/zabbix would be best for a homelab but it requires heavy manual tuning and fixing and is generally fiddly and not great, but it uses proper discovery and mapping methodologies. the real answer is to make a diagram or two manually.

>>107097492
oh i should add that mapping is different from monitoring but this product seems to hybridize the functionality. mapping should be distinct from monitoring because you can efficiently perform discovery of services by just sequentially scanning a network. it's a fools errand.

>>107097492 (You)
oh i should add that mapping is different from monitoring but this product seems to hybridize the functionality. mapping should be distinct from monitoring because you cant efficiently or meaningfully perform discovery of services by just sequentially scanning a network. it's a fools errand.

>>107096821
just learn to use nmap, fucking noob

>>107097527
All noted. Thanks for the info.

>>107054688
as this would involve remuxing, I think it's more of a Tdarr feature
not that I tried

How do I make a Windows VM less...laggy? Like scrolling on a webpage is so choppy. Is it even possible? I gave is 8 cores and 32GB of RAM.
I check CPU usage and RAM usage and it barely did anything when scrolling. It might've jumped to 15% CPU utilization but that's it.

>>107098234
Personally I just use the native remote desktop from within Windows, it's not perfect but the entirely of the issue is the fact any video from within a KVM like Spice or RDP is being CPU rendered, it's somewhat purposely slow as to not use much host resources.
You could pass through a GPU and use a game streaming server like moonlight, that would give the best RD experience possible.

SRV-IO and virtual GPU support has come a long way. A low end Intel GPU would not only let you have a GPU for a VM but anything else on the server. Level1techs is super autistic into that

>>107047472 (OP)
I have an 10+ year old chassis with FreeNAS, AMD board with 8x SATA3, 5x 8TB drives in ZFS2 it and 32GB of RAM. I have three 20TB drives I want to install in ZFS1 to migrate over as a back up and upgrade to the current TrueNAS environment.
My thinking is to fill out the other four/five bays with additional 20TB drives, build a ZFS2, migrate again, and then expand the ZFS2 and add an 8TB SSD as an L2 or whatever they call it.
I'm still learning the terminology and stuff, been a while.

>>107098352
That's overkill for what I use the WinVM for. I literally just use it as a second machine to install shit I don't want on my PC, like Telegram or a bunch of downloaders, like jdownloader or a Qobuz downloader etc.
I don't use it for games or watch videos on it.

Maybe I'll do that when I upgrade my Proxmox machine.

At the moment I am using 1 UPS to power my main PC and my servers. I plan on expanding so I need an extra 3 outlets and my UPS doesn't have any more. So I plan on getting a 2nd UPS. Problem is that I don't want to plug it in the same outlet as my first UPS because I'm worried about it tripping the breaker.
Can I just buy a heavy duty extension cord and plug my UPS in it? I know it's not recommended but that's the only option I have left. I rent so I can't just upgrade the house's wiring.

I don't know how people can run large servers at home in ONE outlet.

>>107098681
>Can I just buy a heavy duty extension cord and plug my UPS in it?
Get the smallest gauge possible, 10 or 12 gauge and you'll be fine. It's not recommended but I use one for mine and have been for years with no issues. I doubt your server is pulling anywhere near enough power to matter. You aren't running some 1200W server at home.

>I don't know how people can run large servers at home in ONE outlet.
You can have 20 outlets and you'll still run into the same problem if those outlets are all on the same breaker. I was tripping my breaker constantly in the past trying to run my server/desktop + A/C, so I had to get a really long extension cord for the A/C and run it under the carpet into another outlet that used a different breaker.

>>107098234
i remote all of my windows vm over rdp using apache guacamole (set to performance mode), never had any problem if its just for scrolling web pages. also network latency matter

>>107069032
Wood glue lasts longer than screws and nails, and it's stronger.

>>107047472 (OP)
I know very little about home servers, but I was thinkin about getting an old Mac Mini to do some basic home automation stuff running Home Assistant. What else can I do with it beside home server etc, could I use it to run pihole or something

Rate my be/g/inner setup fellas
Still learning but its fun!

>>107098954
it's gonna be fairly logjammed with just one ethernet jack, but you can. Some of the things I have running on mine include a booru, a wiki, and a manga reader
>>107098962
whatcha got running on those?

>>107098794
Why small? I don't know anything about electricity or extension cables and wires in general?
And luckily for me, 2/3 outlets are in one breaker and my last outlet is in another breaker. I just don't want to run my server AND my AC in the same breaker.

>>107098932
I started building it already. And yeah, the advise I got was use wood glue + screws. Might be overkill but better safe than sorry.

>>107098970
Will be putting Proxmox on the Thinkstation & TrueNAS on the HP. The HP really doesn't wanna play ball though so who knows LOL
Still unsure on what to do with 2x Pi's though

>>107099007
snort on a pi

>>107098970
hmm, I'm looking at a 2014 model so I think the port is 1Gb/s? I'm definitely a brainlet in this area

>>107099007
I remember when I got shit on for installing Proxmox on a Thinkstation. Everyone kept telling me to use enterprise gear or some shit.
Good luck. When I started I had so much fun fiddling around with Proxmox. Just know that you WILL nuke and start over a lot. Not because you might make a mistake and delete something, but more like doing things more efficiently.

>>107099055
Good to know! It'll be fun! Thanks man

>>107070960
>>107070960
This, or make your own. It isn't difficult, and usually a lot more efficient minus the hands/feet time of someone that's good at their job if this is a prof question. At home it's worth it to just custom built if you're not retarded, you can build out for cheaper than whatever bs people are selling. Just buy the material, tools will be a one time buy, and the total is usually what the 'completed' solution is from a vendor.

anyone here use starlink?
do you find the extra latency fucks with anything you do?

thinking about switching over since its around the same speed to double for the same price as my shitty australian fiber

>>107098999
Smaller gauges are thicker and won't burn down your house. You want to match whatever gauge the UPS is using and go a size lower than that.

>>107062382
what does this actually mean?
is arr ded naow?

>>106991357
ups anon here
this little shit has already saved my mini-pc about 6 times
storms in queensland have been no joke
already paid for itself imo

>>107099268
Nice. I live in a shitty old house and the wiring here sucks. Brownouts aren't common but they happen frequently enough that it bothers me. I mean sure, you gotta replace the battery once in a while but that's like once every couple of years.

Is there any reason at all to allow my torrent client to use IPv6? How would that even work? Would I have to give it a static address and allow 6881 to that specific address on the firewall?

So...

Do you guys just buy new hard drives every couple years or what?
I'd like to store 16tb would 4 8tb be enough or would it be better to get two 16tb drives.

>>107099490
>IPv6? How would that even work?
no idea.

>>107100256
I've slowed down my data hoarding. At most I buy 2 drives a year. I don't buy used anymore unless it's a really good deal.
A used 16TB for $400 with 30 day warranty vs a new 16TB for $440 with full warranty is a no brainer. You can rent out your HDD too if you know how, apparently you can make like $20/mo if you have enough. I don't know, I haven't really looked much into it yet, but it could be worth considering since 20/mo is $240/year which can go to a new HDD for that year.
Get two 16TB. One for your data, and one for backup.

>>107100256
i have started to delete stuff except for the last episode of whatever show so it still shows up in jellyfin and i know where i was at.
saved me a shitload of cost in hdds lol

>>107100256
>Do you guys just buy new hard drives every couple years or what?
some years back i bought a couple of new "NAS" SATA 4TB drives. one started failing right after the warranty period ran out, so i replaced it with a very cheap used SAS drive, which already paid itself off compared to the one that failed.

i'm not a hoarder. i don't need any of this. i just wanted to get into it for fun and for the sake of learning things.

opinion on ext4?

>>107099490
Are there even ipv6 trackers? I know there are yggdrasil, etc trackers but I have literally never seen one support ipv6 explicitly.
>but yggdrasil
yggdrasil actually support ipv4 and ipv6 for peer connections so I am not sure that one tracker on ygg actually does run on ipv6 lol