Hey everyone, I’m planning on setting up my first home server this year. Going to use an old Dell Optiplex with a couple 4tb SSD’s.
I only need two services running. Jellyfin and immich. I’ve tested this out in a debian netinstall VM and it works.
Just looking for helpful hints or advice etc. I’m a long time Linux and BSD user and I’m tempted to try it out using Alpine Linux or even NetBSD (my daily driver os) but I thought I’d be sensible and go with Debian for… Stability?
Anyway, immich is run in a container whereas jellyfin has a binary install. Apparently you can run jellyfin in a container also, not sure I really need to tho?
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I credit ProxMox with making me bolder about what I wanted to accomplish and having the courage and time to take risks while knowing I could always restore from backup in an instant.
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I would suggest giving Proxmox a go and virtualise your VMs, as you can easily make snapshots and recover if something goes south.
You can also check https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ containing easy deployable scripts to make your life easier.
I would also try to run everything out of Docker compose and create a repo containing all configuration files.
This. ProxMox will save you many times over while you are learning. It makes it so easy to backup and restore, try out new projects in a sandbox, and much much more.
I credit ProxMox with making me bolder about what I wanted to accomplish and having the courage and time to take risks while knowing I could always restore from backup in an instant.
FYI, now that tteck has passed, the new home is:
https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/
Yes, I also heard that he passed, and I really feel bad for the guy, he did an amazing job. Thanks for the link, I didn’t know there was a new place.
RIP tteck