Hello everyone,

I am about to renovate my selfhosting setup (software wise). And then thought about how I could help my favourite lemmy community become more active. Since I am still learning many things and am far away from being a sysadmin I don’t (just) want tell my point of view but thought about a series of posts:

Your favourite piece of selfhosting

I thought about asking everyone of you for your favourite piece of software for a specific use case. But we have to start at the bottom:

Operating systems and/or type 1 hypervisors

You don’t have to be an expert or a professional. You don’t even have to be using it. Tell us about your thoughts about one piece of software. Why would you want to try it out? Did you try it out already? What worked great? What didn’t? Where are you stuck right now? What are your next steps? Why do you think it is the best tool for this job? Is it aimed at beginners or veterans?

I am eager to hear about your thoughts and stories in the comments!

And please also give me feedback to this idea in general.

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    I used to really like esxi, but broadcom screwed us on that.

    Hyper-v sucks to run and manage. It’s also pretty bloated.

    Proxmox is pretty awesome if you want full VMs. I’m gonna move everything I have onto it eventually.

    For ease of use, if you have Synology that can run containers, it’s okay.

    I also like and tend to use unraid at my house, but that’s more because of my insane storage requirements and how I upgrade with dissimilar disks fairly frequently. (I’m just shy of 500tb and my server holds 38 disks.)

    • 𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      19 hours ago

      (I’m just shy of 500tb and my server holds 38 disks.)

      That means every one of your disks is >13TB? That’s expensive!

      • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        It’s been a long term build. With unraid it’s been pretty easy to slowly add disks one disk at a time.

        I’m moving everything towards 22tb disks right now. It’s still got a handful of 4 and 5tb disks in it. I’ve ended up with a pile of smaller disks that I’ve pulled and just… sit around.

        I also picked up a Synology recently that houses 12x 12tb disks that goes into that total count. I’ve got another couple Synologys just laying around unused.

    • cheesemoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      22 hours ago

      Damn, 38 disks! How do you connect them all? Some kind of server hardware?

      Curious because I’m currently using all 6 SATA ports on an old consumer motherboard and not sure how I’ll be able to expand my storage capacity. The best option I’ve seen so far would probably be adding PCIe SATA controller(s), but I can’t imagine having enough PCIe slots to reach 38 disks that way! Wondering if there’s another option I haven’t seen yet.