Hmm, so why should I use this instead of TrueNAS?

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Oh. It is TrueNAS. So why should I use LTT-branded TrueNAS?

I just have automatic updates turned on.

Yeah, there’s always the risk of a bad update wrecking everything, but I figure that it’s going to happen when I apply the update manually anyway.

If that’s your only option, I would expose a single host for solely VPN, and connect to that for access to everything else.

Literally on the product page, first result when I googled the model number:

DS1821+ comes equipped with 8 bays and can scale up to 18 bays with 2 DX517 expansion units as your data needs grow.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1821+

Honest question: did you do any investigation on your own, or post here first?

If you want it to not affect other systems, a container is the obvious choice.

That might be what was supposed to happen, but when I started up the VMs I saw memory contention.

I have four 6tb data drives and 32gb of RAM. When I set them up with zfs, it claimed quite a few gb of RAM for its cache. I tried allocating some of the other NVMe drive as cache, and tried to reduce RAM usage to reasonable levels, but like I said, I found that I was spending a lot of time fiddling instead of just configuring RAID and have it running just fine in much less time.

Meh. I run proxmox and other boot drives on ext4, data drives on xfs. I don’t have any need for additional features in btrfs. Shrinking would be nice, so maybe someday I’ll use ext4 for data too.

I started with zfs instead of RAID, but I found I spent way too much time trying to manage RAM and tuning it, whereas I could just configure RAID 10 once and be done with it. The performance differences are insignificant, since most of the work it does happens in the background.

You can benchmark them if you care about performance. You can find plenty of discussion by googling “ext vs xfs vs btrfs” or whichever ones you’re considering. They haven’t changed that much in the past few years.

Does it not do dkms?

Unless you changed it in the application config somewhere, inside the container it’s still running on 8080, so the port should be 8090:8080. https://docs.docker.com/engine/network/#published-ports

I don’t think you can sync all those items anyway. I use Mozilla’s sync, and it doesn’t sync all my settings or extensions.

Last time I checked, some people were using syncthing to sync the whole profile folder, but I feel like that’s just a recipe for profile corruption. I don’t know if it works cross-platform either.

365 and G Suite educational licenses are significantly cheaper than running Exchange. Almost everywhere switched over years ago.

They absolutely won’t have better reach. Mastodon is significantly smaller than both Twitter and Bluesky.

Also agreed. OP is going to find they’re spending more time setting up some system, entering data, and stopping to use it instead of just putting everything in a box labeled “kitchen” and unpacking it in the kitchen when they get to the new place.

Some protocols, like ICMP, don’t have the concept of ports at all!

Oh if they don’t even have support, yeah I would have moved away a long time ago.

Oh I thought you meant it just doesn’t reply to DDNS updates. If it doesn’t even reply to DNS queries, yeah that’s a big issue. What did their support have to say about it?

Does your IP address really change that often?

Flexibility. Maybe they get a hosting package that includes domain registration and hosting, but they can’t put anything else under that name.

Guarantee? You’d have to open it up and disable the cellular radio. The OS can override any settings you make.