Welcom to the world of self-hosting :-D

First Friday of the month. Easy to remember.

Thank you for all the information. I have had servers now for 7 years already, and honestly I still love them. I run a bit more than just seflhosting home-based applications, but I totally get your point. I am a bit older, and therefor a bit more old-school :) I sleep safely to the hum of redundant PSUs and Hardware RAID SSDs, haha.

Especially thank you for PiKVM and NanoKVM. I am looking into that a bit.

I am fully off-grid, so power cost is not that big of a deal, and the servers are far enough away for the noise not to bother me.

I am not against anything you said, honestly. And I got a lot of new info. I am going to say this though: I am still not too convinced on the software RAID thing though. Maybe I am just too stupid, but I have not been able to get this going with the same ease, and have it recover as easily as proper hardware RAID. One day I will take the leap again and try to “get with the times”.

Thanks again for all the info! Honestly appreciate it.

This is an interesting take. I prefer the other way around, because of redundancy in things like PSU and raid etc. So your take is really interesting to me. I am rethinking my setups for sure.

My wife is a pianist. She bought an iPad and we paid for Forscore. So far, worth every cent. Yeah yeah I know, communism and Apple bad, opensource good and all that. But bloody hell, with Forscore the money was worth it. Being able to use facial gestures to turn pages, link up multiple sources for sheet music and a helluva lot more, I would recommend it to anyone serious about music, any day.

Some NVIDIA licenses will prohibit assigning it to more than one VM.

Based on OPs requirements, this is the answer

Thank you. Busy looking into it.

Thank you for SigNoz. Will check into it.

Thank you for the response. I would love to steer clear of D.I.Y merely because I would like to create continuity within the company. If I leave, they should be able to move ahead with it. But your point is very valid. Indeed something like an influxDB with grafana might be a good idea.

I have not thought of Zabbix, thank you for the proposal. I will give it a go and see if this can be a fit somehow. Thank you again for taking the time to respond.

When last did you try? A few of us had MariaDB issues, but it started working like a month ago. There is a github issue about it too.

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I do straight VM installations unfortunately. I am too stupid for K8s. But seeing how the rest of their stuff is packaged, I suspect you will be fine!

I have been maintaining several self-hosted GitLab instances over the past 5 years, and it rarely takes me longer than 20minutes per update.

Their upgrade paths are clearly marked and well thought out. Their packaging methods are of great quality.

You will not regret going with GitLab.

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Sorry, reread your post. I am indeed wrong. My entity control is done with script like turning porch light on, so that is why I have it in my widget. It is a script. Sorry about that.

Did you see the widget is back in HA on iOS18?