A hopefully “success in progress”: I am building a new trueNAS server for storage. I have a k8s cluster and am currently using rancher for storage, but I decided at my scale central storage made more sense & would be easier to manage. I am also using that opportunity to upgrade from 2TB usable storage to 44TB usable storage. Fingers crossed everything will work 🤞

I finally set up a VPN instead of exposing unnecessary ports to the wild!

Nothing broke

this is a great thread! this should be a recurring one

I survived another week without using LLM in my self-hosted servers.

I solved my no display issue on my server. I couldn’t even get the BIOS on output. After taking the entire thing apart and testing all the components it turns out my Tv broke itself with a firmware update and couldn’t receive input on any of the HDMI ports…

I deployed ntfy and traefik, and adapted a few composes to use it.

Reinstalled Dropbear for remote LUKS unlock after a SSD failure.

SSD failure was two weeks ago or I’d say rebuilding the server from backups and further polishing my Ansible playbook.

Started running arr stack, started running music assistant, improved home assistant dashboards, and fixed uptime tracker

I finally buckled down and built a music server. I had a ton of FLAC from before sources but never found the right software stack to make it a good replacement for the typical streaming services.

It took about a month of beating/breaking/resetting and removing unnecessary software. In the end it was way simpler than I originally thought and required very minimal resources.

It may not really be selfhosting but, managed to get a live USB with persistence so that i don’t need to carry a laptop around

Discovered and got psittsa up and running, a cool little project that combines Piper (TTS engine) with a web frontent that allows users to copy-paste text or URLs and to either stream the audio from the browser or download it as mp3. Apparently it even does clean-up of old files behind the scenes.

Building to this week. A few months ago, I was given a broken nas. I took it, thinking I’ve at least got 16TB of storage if it won’t work. Fixed it. Saw the software includes docker, and then saw it has just 2GB ram and before I installed anything it would complain about low memory. Got 16GB, and installed it last weekend.

Spent the week installing and setting up Immich, navidrome, and integrating my other server running arrs.

I dockerized FileHunter and workflowed it on project updates: https://github.com/ikidd/file-hunter-dockerized

Seems to work fine, idk why author didn’t have it dockerized already, seems like a project ready made for that.