The only real usability issue I’ve had is auto cataloging. It isnt right much of the time. But I don’t have any remote users that don’t have network access so that simplifies things a whole lot.

Yeah hell to the naww. They’re also probably tracking all your viewing habits and monetizing that data, they’d be foolish not to with that kind of access.

You are entirely entitled to do whatever you want, but for me I go into a towering rage when something I own is taken over for someone else’s ads.

Locking horns with users

I never checked to see what was actually in the logs but when i was running Plex, it constantly tried to send a lot of log data to its masters. That alone was enough to budge me up and get Jellyfin. Jellyfin isn’t as polished but it works perfectly fine for me.

Don’t know all the answers but the home screen has the “Recently Added” rows if you scroll down.

So you’ll do this add all the services thing, then transition to refining the quality. Hosting email, then working on spam prevention and webmail. Setting up Jellyfin, then getting live TV recording working. Increasing security on the above with fail2ban, VPN, VLANs, virtualization, let the currents of self hosting carry you where they may

Agree, backblaze has been great

Seriously everyone pushes Immich so hard I’m a little suspicious of it now :D

Edit: all right, all right, I installed it. It has a thing about not uploading all the pictures I give it, some error out. I have a feeling it is due to the library being on a NAS share.

If you want a package, look to your distro’s package manager. There isn’t a mirror for nextcloud binaries.

https://github.com/nextcloud/server/releases/

Updated to OpenSuSE Leap 16.0 with the autotool and it broke some things, but nothing terrible. Had to fix network config and add back Packman for ffmpeg for Jellyfin to work but that was about it

Is it? I just had a basic $5 a month machine so didn’t look too hard at it.

Vultr has been pretty good.

Massive data storage streaming and backup and game servers. Disk space and CPU and bandwidth for that in the cloud would be…a lot. A lot a lot, vs a $150 rack server off EBay and a pile of used SAS drives.

Power is pretty cheap here though. All my machines run at about 150-250 watts total, that can add up if your costs are high.

Also I just like my stuff here instead of somewhere else.

The actual comic, with actual credit instead of whatever mangled malarkey the OP is

Soldered in there :) also max 8 GB memory. I only paid like $30 for this box 6 years ago including the $10 for four used drives, I’m not expecting it to run Crysis.

To be extra clear, it was released in 2010 or something. This thing is 15 years old!

Encryption slows it down a lot. It’s just a Turion II

I’ve got a N40L running TrueNAS. It is slow for mass transfers but at about 40-60mbps transfer speeds it is plenty fast for file usage (jellyfin libraries etc.) Right now it’s just a secondary but it is quiet and uses little power. You can get 3.5 to 2.5 adapters and use ssds for even quieter use.

In other words don’t be afraid to trawl around on eBay and experiment.

Having a separate machine as a NAS is good, running TrueNAS or XigmaNAS. You can segregate your backups from your daily use, you can have automated tasks run, etc.

Machine wise, I’m gonna try out a Beelink with nvme slots. Right now I’m using a Proliant microserver. Don’t get one with a hardware RAID card as you want to be able to use zfs. But otherwise they sell pretty cheap on Ebay.