This was the first hit on proxmox vps.

https://hostkey.com/vps/proxmox/

I have no idea if they are good or not, but this kind of service might be what you’re looking for?

So use syncthing on all your devices. It will let you selectively sync folders.

I ran upon this video today. It might be helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO8Kfi4qpY8

Thanks, those are good links. I don’t know anything about power supplies/demands, sorry I can’t be a better conversation partner.

There might be similar boards on AliExpress, but I haven’t seen ones with as many SATA ports.

The are similar (the same?) boards all over Amazon and AliExpress. I would be interested in knowing what you find out. Good luck!

I’ve been looking at this for a bit: https://a.co/d/2FMhmIY

I haven’t checked any reviews, but it might be something to look into.

Not OP, but I use this download manager. It has been good.

https://www.downthemall.org/

I’ve got a Frankenstein setup that wasn’t really thought out that well when I started. I’ll probably end up changing it later. If you go the Proxmox route, check out the partitioning suggestions carefully before you begin.

I’ve got an old minitower that replaced a mini PC setup. I wanted to bring my hdd into the box and connect via SATA instead of an external HDD on USB. I’ll probably get a bigger case to make installing HDDs more convenient.

I don’t really understand the partitioning to be honest. I have a 512gb nvme that is split up into a couple of partitions for VMs, ISO’s, backups and things for Proxmox. Then I have some other HDDs and SSDs that I use for files. Nothing in raid yet, but I’m hoping to add a couple of more HDDs. Then I’ll connect them to OMV and put them in raid.

I’m currently hosting radarr, sonarr, prowlarr and overseerr. It’s really convenient.

When I was in your shoes about 8 months ago, I opted for Proxmox and don’t regret it. Since then, I’ve been able to try different NAS OSs, experiment with different hosted services, etc. it gives you a lot of freedom to set up a VM, try a bunch of stuff, and then delete it and implement a fresh solution when you’re satisfied with something.

If you do that, you might consider having the operating system and VMs on one disk. If you decide on NAS software, many pass through the storage drives to the NAS directly.

I’m probably going to end up with the following:

• Base Proxmox
• NAS VM - OMV with NFS shares available to other services, SMB for the network
• VM for -arr services
• Plex on an LXC - a script helped me set the up
• (Maybe) VM for home assistant
• VM for other home services I need, like Immich
• Maybe a VM for hosting things publicly
• Testing VM

I hope this is helpful!

For me, pros are:

• Fun to learn something new
• Easy to test different systems. For example, I can play with different router or NAS software without having a separate computer around.
• I’ve been able to create different “computers” that serve different needs and require different levels of security.
• Currently, a cluster is probably overkill, it was a fun experiment.

Cons

• Updating all the different systems can be a pain. I could probably automate it, but I haven’t made the time to learn it yet.
• As a beginner, I’m throwing a bunch of parts together and hoping it will work. I should probably be more strategic in my implementation, but I don’t know what to prioritize. I’m sure I’ll have to start over in the future.
• With the previous point, the storage setup doesn’t seem very intuitive. I probably need to set up that better.
• I haven’t quite figured out backups yet. My VM backups all seem too big. I need to figure that out and automate it.

Hope this is helpful.

I was looking into Tailscale, but it got me a little worried. I’m not very knowledgeable, so I hope someone can correct me

They don’t allow ssh, so you have to give your keys over them and they manage your ssh connection? That seems idiotic. Surely that can’t be correct?

I’m my use case, I was wanting to rsync to an off-site Synology from a Linux box. Synology also doesn’t allow ssh over their VPN service - frustrating.

Thanks, bought one!

Any way to power the drives if you don’t have any more free power cables? Just have to buy a new PSU?

Thanks, this is helpful.

How do trackers advertise that they are open for applications?

Any suggestions about how to subscribe to private trackers?

Would the keywords help with mislabeled files?

Thanks for the ideas on the failsafe. I’ll check into it.

Thanks, very helpful!

The email archiver meets I need I’ve had for a long time. Is there any other software like this? I’ll try it out later, but does anyone else have experience with it?

That is what I was afraid of. I have no coding skill at all, but would it be difficult to adapt the plugin to a standalone docker container? Just upload, and it automatically saves to your library of choice.

Sorry, I’m going to hijack this a bit.

Calibre on Windows has a great plugin called de-drm to help liberate your purchases from Amazon. Is there a way to use the plugin on the web version? Alternatively, is there an alternative software that allows that? Currently, I have to first use my desktop version, then upload the book to my server.

I use CX file server. It can create an SFTP connection. I also have a VPN through my router.

Syncthing may be easier if you don’t have a VPN.

FYI, unRAID is moving to a subscription, so if you want to try it out, it might be good now before they change.

Also, I thought I read that docker/portainer was possible on TrueNas. You might check it out if Kubernetes is giving you trouble. I might be wrong, but I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t work on the base Debian install.

The comments on the community and OneDrive implemention are helpful. I do remember seeing one post from someone asking about running only one hdd in TruNAS. You’re right, the comments were very rude. I guess it’s a bigger problem than I realized.

I don’t have any experience with Kubernetes, I’ll check on that.

If you had to start over, what NAS software would you look at?

I think both are on zfs, so that should be good.

I’m definitely a “no clue what I’m doing” user, so GUIs are helpful.

Thanks for the feedback, it’s helpful.

Yes, this is my thinking. I mainly need a NAS that will let me use some services. I’m just not sure what I’ll be missing if I forgo Proxmox. I’m assuming it is a lot of advanced settings I don’t need, but other users mentioned backups as a positive for Proxmox.

Thanks for the response.

This is my first experience with zfs. So far I’ve been okay with the Proxmox UI, but I also haven’t tried anything other than vanilla VMs. I’ve enjoyed using Proxmox and learning it, but it also seems like an extra layer that I’m going to have to keep updated and maintained.

I might expand storage, but as it is, I’m doubling my current available storage, I have enough offsite backup capacity for a long time, and I’ll have the original 4tb external HDD if I want to shuck it. The main issue is getting all my data centralized with as little duplication as possible.

Can you explain how it is limited?

I’m assuming that TrueNas has basic features, and that I only need basic features, so Proxmox is probably overkill for me. What would I be missing if I only used TrueNas for virtualization? Before they talk about backups. It’s there anything else?

Thanks for the feedback. More to think about…

So is your TrueNas in a Proxmox VM? Did you try VMs in TrueNas?

I guess I’m trying to see the benefits of VMs in Proxmox versus VMs in TrueNas Scale. My use case is not very complicated, so I’m wondering if I can simplify the setup by just using TrueNas.

Thanks for the clarification and the other information. It’s helpful.

By a backup server, is that an additional component to my proxmox install? Could I back things up to the offsite Synology? I assume it isn’t a separate box on the network?

In what ways is proxmox virtualization more flexible than TrueNas? I thought it was fairly similar for basic things (my use case). I do realize they are built for different purposes, I just don’t need a lot of virtualization.

For some reason I’ve never had luck setting up network shares for Windows on my network. I should really figure that out.

Thanks for the response. I’ll check it the backup server in more detail.

Thanks, that might work. I’ll check into it.

Thanks. Yeah, that is what I did during maintenance, but I’m trying to think what happens if I’m gone and my family has issues.

Sorry for the confusion, I was just doing maintenance on my home server and so the docker container hosting pi-hole was down. Usually it works beautifully.

Thanks, I see that is the common recommendation. I also have to think what to do if I’m away and the family has issues.

I appreciate the response.

Thanks, this looks good, but I’m not sure I can do it on Asus. I’ll look into it.

Sorry for the confusion, but everything was working fine, I just had to update the server my pi-hole docker container was hosted on and noticed that I lost access to the internet. It works beautifully when the container is up and running.

Unfortunately, I don’t think my router is compatible with Merlin.

Thank you, though, I appreciate the feedback.

How many queries a month do you have? I’m at 15 days and I’m already at 750K. Do you pay for your service? I can do that, just curious what is common.

11€/month? Do you mean per year?