My previous experience is with dropbox and onedrive and I tend to limit bandwidth … I want sync to happen in the background. It’s not something I usually consider “high priority”

I found NC to be a lot more flexible and complete, specially with all the machine learning options. I also appreciate the privacy and price Hosting about 7TB of data for $10 worth of power a month and a $150 investment that allows me to host many other things.

The web interface in my case is a bit slow initially but that’s mostly because I opted to route it via pangolin reverse proxy / cloud flare tunnels, but I notice once the redis cache DB loads it’s blazing fast.

Overall I’m pretty happy with the speed, I’m sharing this with a family of 15 and I haven’t heard any complaints yet.

Wow! Thanks so much for that explanation. I think In my mind I was mixing DAS with SAN and “fabric”

I’m much more confident now In planning this upgrade.

Good Point, idrac has issues on this server, I’ll take another crack at it and see if I can get it going.

I tried with powerstat and powertop but no dice

about 5TB of the 7 I have available are in use. I was planning on expanding to 12 to allow for growth.

I could just upgrade to bigger drives (1 TBs currently) but it feels cheaper to go with DAS

Good point. I actually have a watt meter coming in the mail tomorrow. Will measure the idle consumption of the r430 and report back. This thing sits mostly at under 10% except when running backups or the machine learning algos for nextcloud image recognition.

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I’ve considered it, but decent NUCs are much pricier than old discarded hardware.

I have a good source thru my job for tons of CTO hardware, these R230’s cost me about 50 bucks a pop, and considering they sip power they’re a really hard to pass deal, it sounds like a really good way to learn proxmox HA, load balancing and ceph minus the storage capacity

I guess I could still host a 10G nas on an r230 with a DAS, but my questions remain.

WOW! That’s one hell of a deal. You’ve convinced me XD I’m installing pangolin Right now. The hell with Cloudflare and their evil ways

What an absolute gigachad XD

I’m currently using CF Tunnels and I’m thinking about this (I have pretty good offers for VPS as low as $4 a month)

Can you comment on bandwidth expectations? My concern is that I also tunnel Nextcloud and my offsite backups and I may exceed the VPS bandwidth restrictions.

BTW I’m testing Pangolin which looks AWESOME so far.

Because carriers are smart and greedy and lobbied the government to sell a block of spectrum that is only used in the US for 5g, so if you want good connectivity in the us, you have to buy a phone from them at 3 times the price.

You already have a lot of good answers … but I got one more to add.

I have a very similar setup on my homelab and I’m using a Cloudflare tunnel.

It’s a free service and it’s really good because it allows you to expose web services and specific ports for remote access over dynamic IPs without having to expose your own router.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/