What’s going on on your servers?
I had to bite the bullet and buy new drives after the old ones filled up. I went for used enterprise SSDs on eBay and eventually found some that had an okay price, even though it’s been much more than last time I got some. Combined with Hetzner’s hefty price increase some month ago, my hobby has become a bit more expensive again thanks to the ever growing appetite of companies building more data centers to churn more energy.
Anyways, the drives are in, my Ansible playbook to properly encrypt them and make them available in Proxmox worked, so that was smooth (ignoring the part where I disassembled the Lenovo tiny from the rack, open it, SSD out, SSD in, close it and put it back in only to realize I put in the old ssd again).
Any changes in your hardware setups? Did the price increase make you reconsider some design decisions? Let us know!
Dug up an old RPI 3 for the sole purpose of running a bulletproof sandbox for Claude Code. At 1 gb of RAM it’s a little slow but quite tolerable for running —dangerously-skip-permissions and one shot prompts.
Network isolated, Tailscale ACLs in, sudoless user created, and service account tokens setup with minimal permissions to GitHub. It should function almost exactly like Claude code remote. Excited to start testing it.
I’m in the unenviable position of basically doing self hosting for work and all I want to do on the weekend is get greasy under my car.
Gonna change the oil later and replace a MAF
Fuck yeah, similarly I can’t wait to garden this weekend.
Like last time, no real changes. Just maintaining and enjoying.
Is it possible to transfer RAID drives from a Synology server to an Ubuntu server without losing the data?
Most likely no unless the raid controllers are identical and you aren’t using Synology’s hybrid raid stuff.
It might be but it is risky - if anything goes wrong there goes that data.
Currently planning for adding a third hardware node into my setup, adding proper distributed storage and enabling ha for all my applications.
What kind of distributed storage do you want to use, Ceph? What kind of orchestration/hypervisor do you use? I also have two nodes currently (Proxmox) with pseudo shared storage (zfs replication).
I’m planning on using proxmox with Ceph. I’m already using proxmox for virtualization of my k8s nodes, but with three hardware nodes it’s finally time to enable ceph as well as HA.
HA is possible with 2 (+Qdevice) with zfs repl, but I’ll look for a third one as well sooner or later. I haven’t used ceph, but everyone tells me how much of an overhead it has
Yeah, I’m aware of the overhead and hope I won’t have to roll back to something less, but if it turns out to be too demanding, I will have to roll back to nfs or think of something else.
I’ve crossed that threshold in Dunning-Kruger where I see how much how I don’t know, and it’s simultaneously disheartening and stressful. But hell, what am I going to do now? Quit?
I’m trying to properly learn VLANs and set them up so that I’ve got “self-hosted services exposed to the internet” and “everything else”. So far, the only thing I need to isolate is a NAS with Jellyfin and Komga, but I plan to add more services via a mini PC later. The thing that has made this whole journey frustrating is that every time I try to learn something, even laser targeted, I don’t get the full answer from the first thing I find, and the next answer I find introduces more complexity. I think what I need is a managed switch from my local Micro Center like a Netgear GS108Tv3, to replace the switch currently in my office. Then, if I understand correctly, I think I need to put the NAS (and eventually mini PC) on their own subnet and use VLAN rules to allow traffic to that subnet but not from that subnet to the rest of my LAN. But it’s hard to determine if I’ve even got that right.
Yeah that’s about right.
every time I try to learn something, even laser targeted, I don’t get the full answer from the first thing I find, and the next answer I find introduces more complexity
Can empathize. Read a tutorial and think ‘Well, that seems pretty straight forward’. Read another tutorial about the same topic…‘Jebus that does not seem straight forward.’
It took me about 50 YouTube videos to get me to a point where I believe I now understand what a reverse proxy is and how I should use one.
Right ?! Networking is voodoo witchcraft.
I was bored and decided to actually read wtf the deal is with IPv6 since my ISP gave it but never bother to know more.
All my devices can reach the ipv6 internet without me touching it, so I thought at least I could learn how to replicate my pretty simple lab but with v6.
3 days later I still have no clue how to assign static addresses properly. What do you mean each device have multiple addresses?? Android (google) didn’t support dhcpv6? Wtf is SLAAC ?
The DHCPv6 on Android Soap Opera as they called it, pretty fun read.
Also the folks at IPv6 sub seem to be majority professional because they can actually parse the RFC spec and treated it like mandatory Ed. Pretty nice and welcoming comm all thing considered.
It’s a whole rabbit hole and I still don’t know if my IPv6 is good IPv6 or not, and with bottom of the barrel equipment looking for guide is a pain. IPv6 content in general is pretty sparse even within the self hosting comms.
I bought an old QNAP 869 Pro and filled it full of 6TB drives, also old.
I’ll start rotating the drives out one-by one over the rest of the year.
No real changes other than adding some more media to Plex that I need to watch
Part of me loves knowing that I own that media library and that I can’t lose stuff at the whim of a company, the other part dreads having an endless backlog 😅
I’ve been on the long process of transitioning my janky - Windows + Hyper-V + Docker containers to a fully containerized Linux solution. It’s been slow but good progress. Biggest learning has been the DB surgery to fix absolute to relative paths. Trying to stage the full Linux transition so I reduce the work once I get on the new OS.
I did the monthly arch upgrade and had to reboot to get some service to come up. Took an extra 5 minutes this month.
I ended up adding a healthcheck cronjob using healthchecks.io
Works flawlessly, and I’m sure it’ll help out in the future.
I made the right decision to get two HP elitedesk g4 minis instead of one, and to give them both plenty of ram (before the shortage).
I temporarily “lost” one of them after a power outage revealed that the CMOS battery was dead in one. It’s back up and running, but it was nice to be able to simply import the containers on the remaining good unit while I fixed it up.
Test your backups! It’ll save you time and headache, plus you can feel superior to others.
Finally set up yamtrack to get rid of trakt.
Doing a bit of a dual-boot situation with both atm but I’m cautiosly optimisticPart of my reason for self-hosting is not to have what I’m watching tracked, but I did use the Trakt trending list to discover new content. Now, their website doesn’t show the trending list without an account, so I can’t be bothered with Trakt now.
Only upgrade this week is LED lights for my rack. The rails I ordered for one of my cases did not come through, some mistake during order picking it seems, so it’s only the LEDs this weekend. Installing the lights was easier than reporting the issue through Megekko. Doubt I’ll order from there again in the future.
I revived my second WAP today by soldering on a serial header and reloading the firmware. Sounds badass, but I broke it myself and then did a crap job trying to improvise and revive it the first time. I had to buy the correct tools before I could try again.
On the other hand, my SMB shares were mysteriously down this morning. Easy fix, but weird.
