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Hi everyone! I recently successfully traced some network issues I was having in Counter Strike back to my QBittorrent client having too many open connections. Global maximum was set to around 500, with a 100 max per torrent. This caused major jitter and packetloss in-game. My current router is an Asus N18U which has Asus-Merlin on it. The issues kept coming back even with a smaller number of open connections to the point I had to shut down the client. I can’t remeber having these kinds of issue on Windows (current system CachyOS wit latest kernel), but I can ne wrong. For what kind of specs should I be looking in a router for this kind of task? Would a MikroTik hEX refresh (upgraded RAM and CPU) be enough or overkill? Thanks!

I’ve been self-hosting for 8+ years, mostly Plex + *Arr stack, docker, and some HomeBrew scripts. I got tired of my external drives being a mess and picked up a terra-master NAS (F4-425 PLUS). My original idea was to just use it for storage, but now seeing TOS 6 has a lot of applications it can run on-device, I’m trying to figure out what my best solutions are for two distinct parts: drive setup & applications I migrate from my Mac Mini onto it.

Hello there, i’m looking to upgrade my 10 years old NAS/server. I already have the HDD and the case. But i have difficulties to chose motherboard, PSU, CPU & RAM.

Does anyone know where I can get the latest firmware for the intel res2sv240 raid expander card? Their website seems to just not have it anymore. (Sidebar: It is obnoxious that vendors take down support info and downloads after a certain point. Why is that even a thing?)

Here is a volume I created with two nodes, not replicated but rather distributed:

From my understanding I connect A0 and B0 or A1 and B1? Am I correct or do I need all four? Using SAS 8643 to SAS 8643.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49871915

I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny (10FL) which has been working fine. Recently, I had an HDD failure, and replaced it with an SSD. This time, I decided to go with ZFS (single drive, kinda pointless, but I get scrubbing). Every once in a while, I’m getting errors while scrubbing. It’s always 1-2 read or write errors. And it never reappears if I clear the error and run another scrub.

I live in a house that has CAT 5 cable in the walls running to wall plates in various rooms.

I have seen a lot of people on reddit claiming that getting a mini pc is better than an enterprise server. But when looking at the price of an N100 vs the price of a used poweredge r730xd even assuming international shipping of over $500 if you buy from eBay and don't live in the US. Many of them build clusters that would cost more than one enterprise server, it seems like a hassle.

I'm going to run generic server tasks (webhosting, Nextcloud, Home Assistant) but also use it as a torrent client, NAS and media center. It will sit close to the dumb TV and give it IPTV and file playback capabilities. I haven't decided between a SBC or mini PC yet.

I'm running Cisco Modeling labs, which uses Ubuntu and QEMU under the hood. CML allows you to place external connectors in a lab that bridge virtual and physical lab devices. These external connectors are Linux bridges running on the CML controller hypervisor.

Proxmox uses LXC for containers and KVM for virtualization. TrueNAS SCALE (now) uses LXC for containers and KVM for virtualization. Is there any use-case left where it still makes sense to run SCALE inside of Proxmox, or is it just as good/peformant to have SCALE handle both NAS duties as well as the other things I would normally run in containers and VMs?

Testing running proxmox on an old laptop.

Hey everyone!

Without Installing another OS like Proxmox, does anyone know any tooling that will easily deploy VMs on my local computer and deploy software stacks on them?

This may be a biased place to post this here, but I am looking for confirmation and any corrections or additions to my list.

I've installed an APC BX950MI-GR and connected it to my Proxmox server via USB. It works: it turns off the server after x minutes after the power loss and it gets turned off by the command upsdrvctl shutdown, when the powers come back on, the UPS turns on and so does the server. The problem is if the power comes back after the server receive the power off signal and before the UPS powers off, in this case the UPS simply goes back in the normal state and the server...stays off. How can I turn it back on? Thanks!

Hi, I'm trying to pass an HD770 from a i5-14600K to a jellyfin container that's on Open Media Vault. I keep thinking I have the correct firmware downloaded but I guess that's not the case.

Well I have been using an old gaming PC as NAS after it's GPU died, and even though it has served me greatly, it's a power hog. Also CPU is pretty old to do any transcoding or AI stuff. I have scored a mini PC with Intel N5105 for free, and its quite power efficient. Also it doesn't have SATA, but two nvme m2 slots, one of which can work with these m2 Sata adapters (asm1166 chip with 6 SATA ports). Now minipc obviously can't power up the 5 hardrives, all 3.5" SATA, so I need an external power supply. minipc got it's own adapter brick, so is there a similar adapter that can work for drives, or I have to get a PSU. But then again, If I am getting a PSU, I wonder if I could power the MiniPC off it as well.

(Removed from selfhost@lemmy.world since it was apparently not related to self host)

Hey all, So I want to upgrade my mini-PC based homeserver, which is slowly dying to a NAS/homeserver. Right now it hosts a Homeassitant istance and some photos.

I have had Proxmox running nightly backups and saving them to my NAS for years now without any issues. I've been thinking that it would also be nice to have these copied over to my cloud storage (some smaller company, no available plugins).

What would be good specs for small but power-efficient NAS. I want it to be budget friendly, I would probably look for 2nd hand stuff. I plan to use it for media storage (most likely immich) and the arr stack + jellyfin.

I was poking around for a USB C 5G/LTE modem that I can run either off my laptop or plug into my router as a secondary WAN. Has anyone messed with something like this?

Hey all,

I have an R320 that has 4 SAS drives 10TB each, which holds a lot of my data + backups from other systems, I also have an R710 which runs a lot of heavy workloads for my homelab, now I have to move to the other side of the EU and I don't know what to do with that lab, the electricy cost on the new country will be around 0.33c per Kw, while now I was paying under .10c.

Hey everyone,

Hey all,

I am currently running a FreeBSD system on an old Dell Optiplex 790 (i3 2100) that has been upgraded a bit.

A recent storm damaged the siding of my house so I'll have to have it replaced. The thought occurred to me to run some network cabling behind the new siding (and likely new insulation) while its all pulled off. Should I run standard riser cabling or outdoor-rated cabling if I do so?

I’m looking to switch. I like to tinker and try new things.

So I need help with a split dns approach, or a direct fix, normally when running my tunnel on the simplest configuration I get this error:

So I have a issue. whenever I accessed all of my services via 192.168.1.22/wordpress for example. it forwarded that /wordpress to the actual wordpress domain, leading to page not found, however when i strip the initial proefix, i can access the base page, however, when lets say wordpress wants any css or assets, it will look at 192.168.1.22/assets which wont work, so basically, I need a way for sort of, emulate the url paths, so it wont take actual queries to places that dont exist and tries to access resources the incorrect way, i know siteURL exists for WP, but i want a catchall solution which helps my other services.

As the title says I’m curious what quality people choose. I chose Ultra-HD and am a little stunned when I look at the file sizes for some movies at 100GB.

I got a server recently and now I need storage and I’m a little upset seeing the prices of HDDs.

Hey community! Do you use any database or anything to manage your environments? I started a relational Notion database a while back but never dug in. Objects types for things like hardware, software, deployments, technologies, and tie-ins to my other LifeOs databases. (e.g., the inkbird aquarium thermostat in Smart Life/Tuya via Home Assistant is linked to my aquarium database as a gear object.)

I am upgrading my drives and have created a new pool. The original pool had a drive fail, but it has since been replaced. Each drive CKSUM value is at 4.04k and pool had two files with permanent errors. I deleted those, but it now shows this:

Title. If none - why?

I was looking to upgrade my storage and was recommended to go with used SAS drives and an LSI SAS controller. I purchased an LSI 9211-8i HBA, 8TB Seagate Exos drives, and these cables. The drives are not spinning up at all when connected to the power supply. Are these cables not the right choice for this?

Hi all! I had posted a similar post in selfhosted, but it was deleted because it was only hardware-related. Therefore a new attempt here in the correct sub.

Hello there,

I'm looking to upgrade some of my internal systems to 10 gigabit, and seeing some patchy/conflicting/outdated info. Does anyone have any experience with local fiber? This would be entirely isolated to within my LAN, to enable faster access to my fileserver.

I'm currently planning to build a low power nas for my upcoming minirack (10").

I want to establish a second LAN at home. It's supposed to host different services on different infrastructure (vms, k8s, docker) and mostly serving as a lab.

Hi guys,

Hi there good folks!

I recently generated a self-signed cert to use with NGINX via it's GUI. 1) Generate cert and key 2) Upload these via the GUI 3) Apply to each Proxy Host