Like 1 hour every two months or so, I just run an ansible playbook and check everything is working ok

Yes I use it a lot to read manga and some books. Works perfectly. On Android you can connect with CDisplayEX.

Great summary. How does work the provision with terraform? Do you have some guide? Is possible to provision LXC/VM on proxmox with ansible instead?

Syncthing, Gitea, jellyfin (with arr stack), audiobookshelf, Kavita.

Great starting point! I think option 1 will be better for this scenario. But later if you can, a cheap desktop build will be better for proxmox since you will have more room to expand and play with more things, add more storage even GPU for jellyfin.

Have fun!

I perform a backup once a week from my main desktop to a HDD, then once a month I copy important data/files from all nodes (proxmox, rpi’s and main desktop) to 2 “cold” unplugged HDD that’s the only time I connect them. I do all of that using rsync with backup.sh and coldbackup.sh

I use syncthing for notes across mobile/desktop/notebook, for that and other important files the backup goes to Google Drive or MEGA (besides the offline backup).

I want to try S3 Glacier since is cheaper for cloud backup… has anyone tried?

Sure you can check https://trash-guides.info/

and here is my setup, I’m using podman containers for everything

I’m using my RPi4 4gb to run a home media server, jellyfin and *arr stack all containerized and automated. Also syncthing for obsidian. Works perfectly

Wait for it to go up gain 🥲. But now I’m curious how people use 4G as second option maybe I will try juat for fun.

+1 for obsidian and syncthing, I like to avoid the use of many applications. So everything related to writing text/notes for personal use I do centralize in obsidian. You can even make some drawings or handwriting with excalidraw, hady for diagrams.

Goddady. It’s cheap they have my local currency.

What a good timing, I was looking for a YT music replacement.

Navidrome seems like a good choice but is exactly what you’re are saying “classic media player with a webUI”. I like the convenience of YT music recommendations and all the music available even the music I don’t usually listen to. I would need a much bigger music library or a way to facilitate the music discovery and automate the downloads.

I know there’s is Lidarr to automatically download music but I read some people saying music naming scheme is a mess. So anybody has successfully replaced Spotify or YT music with Navidrome or similar? How is your setup?

How did you structure your library? Did you use lidarr?

could you share some tutorials? i’m thinking to rebuild to setup better storage for VMs and backups

Maybe it’s hard at the beginning but as you keep doing it becomes easier. If you feel overwhelmed take a break for a few days and try again later. I think we all have been there and hit a wall. Self host, open source and Linux communities are friendly you can ask for help and find someone willing to help you, so don’t be afraid to ask for help (as I was before). Just take small steps.

Don’t give up. Have fun.

Those that are hosting their own mail server, did you stop using regular mail (gmail, outlook etc). Is possible to migrate to self hosted mail? I don’t think I can’t stop using gmail and other google services that’s stopping me from trying to do this.

Make sure my proxmox desktop build can do GPU passthrough.

I use podman auto-update command.

I’d also like to see what others use

Not sure if I understand, are you behind CGNAT? do you want the service to be publicly accessible? If you can’t do port forwarding, tailscale can help to access remotely.

Currently I use a normal desktop pc with proxmox and a few drives there to spin up some VMs and LXC. For the service I use podman. Works great.

Hope you have fun in this journey.

Awesome summary of how podman works.

I still haven’t figured out some issues with rootless podman where I pass the PUID and PGID of “myuser” 1000 as environment variable following the linuxserver.io examples… but then get files and folders owned by 100999:100999, if I chown files to “myuser” the service gets permission denied, I give up and chown everything to 100999 as workaround it works but is a bit annoying… Maybe someone here knows what’s going on?