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That sub has useful information, but it has so many gearheads buying $500 routers and building $5k server racks that sound like jet engines for backing up their photos and watching a few hours of TV every day.

it was a good post, and we can't have that, so the subreddit's mods had to remove it smh

I live this thread, I'm a gamedev and it makes me feel normal for once

I really appreciate the repetition of the central thesis ("you are all a bunch of sick freaks"). That's solid writing.

You can pry my YAML from my cold dead hands

Fuck I'm tagged

Raid is for cowards. I have a singular 12tb used hard drive for everything. It literally can't break

yeah honestly, all power to the home-self-hosters but I'm so burnt out I'm not dealing with any more of that shit unless I'm paid. Last thing I want to do after spending my whole week trying to unfuck the heap of infrastructure you end up with after 15 years of "move fast and break things" is pour over my own kernel logs so I can figure out why I can't watch TV today

I had an old Arch laptop as my server for the longest time, and just set up a fresh Debian server with the *arr stack, qbittorrent, airsonic-advanced, calibre-web, and jellyfin - almost everything from LinuxServer.io. I used Cloudflare tunnels for the web-facing services and have the torrents running through AirVPN via gluetun. Everything is in docker containers run in separate users.

I feel like I learned a shit-ton doing this so if anyone has a computer sitting around and wants to try dipping their toes into self-hosting, hit me up. I have a bit of free time and am willing to walk you through it and answer questions at any pain points. I should maybe make a post in piracy offering the same.

I have a 42TB raidz2-0 array, 1TB NVMe boot disk running nixos... its excessive but super reliable! I just wish I had a server rack chassis to put it in.

Man goes to aquarium and is like “wtf are all these fish doing here?!”

Unix grognards running every service uncontainerized on one server keep winning.

I will never stop self hosting. I have converted some of my friends to self hosting their own stuff. We have automated encrypted offsite backups of eachothers critical/cherished data.

I will continue to spread this and no one can stop me.

You will learn docker (from compose files, including minimum shared networking), you will learn the *arr stack, you will use Audiobookshelf, you will learn about and deploy a reverse proxy, rclone usage is not optional, and I'll eventually turn you into a hobbyist programmer.

I just pray their children can stand on my shoulders and convert it all to kubernetes some day because I refuse to learn enough to make arguably employable as a Jr. devops engineer.

picturing a couple having dinner
"check it out sweetie, i made a plex server for all our dvds! :)"
"YOU ARE SICK! you need help!"

running Pi-hole with Unbound is superior to forwarding to Cloudflare.

NO FUCK YOU, IT IS.

Just using Jellyfin + 2 sata HDDs + an always on computer, for my selfhost

Oh no I just installed proxmox and some stuff on an old laptop last sunday. Is this my future?

God, I wish. I can't get my Optiplex to stay on so I can remote to it consistently. Even then, I struggle to get Docker working, even when I add my users to the docker group

Haha one of the few times a super text meme is actually a worthwhile read. Self hosting really is a weird sort of drug spiral…

I'm just a half step away from a caveman but I appreciated the line "your electric meter is spinning so fast it could probably create it's own electricity."

This is just an average redditor stroking off other redditors. I don't want this in my life anymore.

I actually work with....

Yeah after dealing with my annoying corporate job I also don't want to deal with computers, but it's not a reason to complain that people have found durable elegant solutions to running their own services on their free time.

This just smacks of jealousy. Someone has to write the yaml, if it's not you it's gonna be the people you're paying $X/mo to also steal your data/call the cops on you after they find IP finger prints/etc.

I have a PC running OpenMediaVault (NAS) with about 8 terabytes of movies and TV shows, and a separate PC running Jellyfin and Plex accessing the video files through a samba share.

I'm sure r/selfhosted would give me all sorts of shit for not running those services in VMs on a single machine. Maybe when I can find a more powerful computer to do that on...

After a few years I've ended up with Kodi and a bare minimum setup that keeps things as easy for me as possible. The biggest problem I have rn is that my usb HDD enclosures default to off after power loss.