Hello everyone,

I am about to renovate my selfhosting setup (software wise). And then thought about how I could help my favourite lemmy community become more active. Since I am still learning many things and am far away from being a sysadmin I don’t (just) want tell my point of view but thought about a series of posts:

Your favourite piece of selfhosting

I thought about asking everyone of you for your favourite piece of software for a specific use case. But we have to start at the bottom:

Operating systems and/or type 1 hypervisors

You don’t have to be an expert or a professional. You don’t even have to be using it. Tell us about your thoughts about one piece of software. Why would you want to try it out? Did you try it out already? What worked great? What didn’t? Where are you stuck right now? What are your next steps? Why do you think it is the best tool for this job? Is it aimed at beginners or veterans?

I am eager to hear about your thoughts and stories in the comments!

And please also give me feedback to this idea in general.

  • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    No love for Open Media Vault? I run it virtualized under Proxmox and I’m quite happy with it, not very fancy but super stable.

    I run about twenty containers on OMV, with 4 8tb drives in a ZFS ZRAID5 setup. I love how users can be shared across services, for example the same user may access SMB shares or connect via OpenVPN.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      +1 for OMV. I use it at work all the time to serve Clonezilla images through an SMB share. It’s extremely reliable. The Clonezilla PXE server is a separate VM, but the toolkit is available in the clonezilla package, and I could even integrate the two services if I felt particularly masochistic one day.

      My first choice for that role was TrueNAS, but at the time I had to use an old-ass Dell server that only had hardware RAID, and TrueNAS couldn’t use ZFS with it.