Same story here.

Have two private trackers now, but started with just using the ones I had heard of, and removed a few that kept coming up short.

It works fine, but torrents died quite fast as most people don’t bother seeding there.
For new stuff it worked fine

Agree!
I’ve managed to convert three friends this last year. Two to Mint, one to Bazzite because he mostly games.

Immutable distro is perfect for him, just working out of the box.

Next «level» for him would probably be Fedora KDE Plasma, for sure not Arch.

Oooooooooh, well god dingit, there it is!

Nice! Thanks again!

Seems to be missing in 10.11.3, so I might just be a few patches behind.
I’ll read the patch notes and see if it’s been added recently.

Just posting as it’s good to know for others searching, I guess.

I obviously need to have another look when I get home!
The issue started on 10.10, but I haven’t looked into it after upgrading.

Thanks for taking the time, Freund!

You are right, there is a checkbox, but no way to adjust the interval AFAIK.
It seems to be a daily occurrence, which is fine when I just adjusted the container size.

I’m going to be more weary of buying devices without H265/AV1 in the future, which is what I grab mostly. That should remove the need for transcoding completely anyways.

It’s been fairly smooth lately, knock on wood!

My Valheim server that is set up for friends and family had some issues, but nothing in the logs so I assume it was a weird network issue that solved itself.

I also battled some problems with the Jellyfin temp/transcode folder ballooning in size, causing the whole server to crash as I hadn’t dedicated enough space to the container. Considered making a script to clear the folder at even intervals, but it would cock up streaming if the missus was watching while the purge happened.
Ended up just giving it 100 GB and let the daily clear be enough.
It ended up being the missus’ tablet suddenly requesting transcode of everything but H264, so I’m quietly hinting that she is due an upgrade anyways…

Next project planned: Caddy (I’ve been saying that for 6 months…)

I also have a Synology NAS and second this.

Yes, it’s super cool to selfhost a NAS yourself, but I really just want my storage to work and not need to be tinkered with at all. I’d be mauled by the missus if something was to happen to my AIO-server/NAS, so I’d rather split them.

Let a professional company deal with keeping your storage online at all times, and have fun with the “not so important” things like docker containers on your own server.
It costs a bit more, but it gives me peace of mind.

I second this.

Bought a $150 NGKTech from Aliexpress with 16 GB of RAM a couple of years ago, and it’s been such a beast with Proxmox.
Extremely low power consumption, no fan noise, barely any heat and chugs through Jellyfin transcoding, Minecraft/Valheim servers, HA OS and so many more small containers.
Just remember to set the C-state in BIOS and re-paste the CPU before you fire it up. The stock stuff is crap.

I was expecting to outgrow it quite quickly, but it just powers through it all.
I can’t see any reason to get anything more powerful at all.

Whatever you reason: let’s get you started!

Let me know if you’re taking me up on the offer or feel free to ask me directly if you’re more comfortable with that.

Happy New Year!

Agree with everybody else here: don’t pay anyone for this.
We’re all a bunch of people hating that everything costs so much, so we selfhost what we can.

Use us, learn from our mistakes, make your own and start over when you fuck up to badly. We’ve all done it and still do it.
We’ll hold your hand every time you come back and ask for help, as long as you’ve shown at least a tiny bit of effort on your end.

Depending on your timezone, I could hop in a quick Discord call and nudge you in the right direction if it gets you going. I have some experience with ADHD so I know from second hand experience how you feel.
My TZ is CET.

Best of luck anyways!

Nice!

We always get to mountain, then run out of steam before restarting a few months later.
Have fun!

I agree.

Separate NAS/storage from server for some redundancy, and flexibility. SMB or NFS for access to files.
It’s also nice paying a premium but letting someone else be responsible for keeping it running.

If you have a distaste for Synology after their recent antics, then go with someone else.

I’d say go with a 4-bay and put two disks in, then you have loads of room to expand in the future. This is mainly because of Jellyfin and how these libraries have a tendency to grow a lot with time.

You’re not wrong, but I think you might be leaving some future capabilities on the table, that’s it.
There is nothing wrong with running everything through Portainer at all. It’s how I started myself. The downside is that it’s limited if you ever wish to do e.g. HA OS or a sandboxed OS for testing/playing around. Automatic backups, re-sizing LXC’s or giving more memory is also easier to do with a GUI than in CLI. At least for me hehe.

That’s the great thing about self hosting though: if you’re happy with it, then it’s perfect!
Don’t change anything because someone tells you to if it works for you, friend!

Yeah it’s a bit of an unfair comparison that. Hypervisor VS conainer manager.
The reason you run Proxmox is to do «everything» in one place, including docker.

If all you host are containers, then I agree it’s overkill, but if you want VM’s and containers combined, maybe even in a cluster, then Proxmox is hard to beat.

I host LXC’s with Portainer inside Proxmox, as I find it easier to deal with and maintain. Then in a VM I run the full HomeAssistant OS instead of the Docker image.

Unless you don’t need it at all, I’d recommend you give it another try. It’s a very flexible system that «does it all» once you get going.

Agree, the old ones are not good.
I just swapped the 4k one with the TV Streamer and been very happy.
4k high bitrate files play easily.

Your server of course matters, so make sure it’s up to the task.

It was actually a good choice, as the 4k one doesn’t support AV1 for some weird reason.
Mine died and I replaced it with the TV Streamer and been very happy with it.

Yeah it’s Google and the HW is barely better, but the codec support and upgraded remote are awesome.
Plays anything I throw at it with ease.
I host on a N100 and it is really good with transcoding files for older devices.

Yeah I can’t argue with that, it’s more that I have no financial gain in this setup, so every redundancy set up costs me directly. At some point I have to say that it’s good enough.

It’s always a trade-off I guess, with cost being the deciding factor.
If I ever build a new house, I’m having a proper rack with room for a redundant server for sure!

Like others have said, I also prefer having a backup and getting new HW when shit hits the fan.
You can build a warm-standby solution, but that road is both costly and more labor intensive.

The family can survive for a few hours while I run out to get a new drive or NUC to fix stuff.
If you’re lucky, it happens right after dinner so you can skip clean-up too!

Where were you and your amazing advice before we bought a house and made tiny humans???