I’ve been selfhosting a while. I run around 15 distinct services in docker containers, all on a single machine with a medium sized disk. It’s a small form factor, and I recently had to add space, so I’ve attached an external USB storage device.
It feels clunky.
At what point does a performant SAN/NAS make sense more than local storage? When did you make the jump?
For me it was when I noticed that some of my photos had been affected by bitrot.
Instarted building my NAS last year, and got caught up in the increased HDD cost, I need two more 8TB drives to get my 32TB Zraid2 going.
I was going to use TrueNAS, but now that they have turned their back on opensource, I am not so sure anymore