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" Why won’t somebody think about the backups ? "
None of you come in my shop.
What is your reason for running two separate Debian docker hosts with under 5 containers in total? That seems like quite the overhead? And why did you choose to install Nextcloud on your TrueNAS server?
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web IP Internet Protocol NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
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You should look into container technology. No reason to have this many operating systems wasting resources
Heh. Container mafia going “hush, don’t worry about iso27002, just one more pull, bro.”
OP is still running 5 containers though? And why does a home server need to implement an IT security standard meant for large organisations? I hope you got an incident response policy written down, would be a shame to fail the next audit.
Why do you use two separate Debian VMs plus a truenas VM running nextcloud?
Security is the first thing that comes to mind. Compartmentalization prevents or at least makes it considerably harder for compromised services to screw up all the others.
Another thing would be that it might be easier to manage backups and snapshots.
From my understanding, it’s helpful that each VM will have its own IP so ports can be opened only on specific VMs, increasing overall security.
Dutch user spotted
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Lol
Nice stack! What’s the crab logo? I don’t recognize it.
Do you notice a massive increase in request latency (like 10x-50x) when using a CloudFlare tunnel vs connecting directly to your IP? I’ve experimented with it a few times, but it really negatively impacts QoS for me, especially with federated services (like Matrix) where there are lots of small requests.
the crab is Homarr and no, i haven’t had any issues with cloudflare
What do you use it for?
its a dashboard application, i just have my hosted apps there
But like, does it help you with anything specific. Or is it just nice to look at
Thanks! I haven’t tried that dashboard yet, I might give it a spin.
Do you notice a massive increase in request latency (like 10x-50x) when using a CloudFlare tunnel
Have not noticed that at all. I don’t run any federated services tho. Might be the difference, I don’t know.
Yeah I’m thinking the request frequency was the issue rather than bandwidth.
That seems unlikely; trust me, there are services running behind Cloudflare tunnels that are doing more requests per second than whatever you’re hosting does in a year.
The only times I’ve had performance problems with Cloudflare tunnels it’s been intermediate network kit that didn’t like IPv6 or didn’t like QUIC (or both). You can try disabling both in
cloudflaredto diagnose (at least, you used to be able to disable them/switch to HTTP/2+IPv4, it’s been a very long time since I’ve needed to so I’m just assuming it’s still an option.)
Is proxmox a viable option to be used on a NUC for example?
Yes, I run it on mine, with an N100 processor. Make sure it’s a recent-ish one with the necessary virtualization extensions. https://www.proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-virtual-environment/requirements
And obviously more storage and more RAM is better, especially if you plan to use zfs. Keep that in mind when selecting hardware.
Thanks, I will look into the provided link.
i love selfhosting :3
Me2! Nice solid stack you got going there bro.
TruNAS is a VM? I thought it preferred bare metal? I would think it would be side by side with proxmox? (Still learning and planning my setup.
Absolutely no problem with it being virtualized as long as you have a pci storage controller and pass that through to trueNAS. HBA cards can be found that do this without raid or anything so you can use zfs in trueNAS.
I’ve got a virtualized set up to.
Its pretty unbothered being virtualized so long as the disks are passed through. In my set up, I have the SAS board passed through and its using that.
My reasoning is that I wanted a lot of disks space, but I couldn’t get that without just a big case in general, so I use the extra space to store GPUs for AI and encoding stuff
